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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This series of books discusses contemporary American films that have found commercial success but which have not been constrained by the formal and ideological parameters of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Each volume explores a specific film and combines original research with clearly defined classroom-orientated frameworks of film analysis.Lost in TranslationGeoff KingElusive, subtle and atmospheric, Lost in Translation was one of the indie hits of 2004, earning widespread critical praise, awards and success at the box office. But what was the basis of its appeal and how exactly is the film marked as a distinctly independent work This book, by a leading authority on contemporary American indie cinema, provides an in-depth analysis of the balance of more and less mainstream qualities offered by the film at all levels, from industrial factors such as funding, marketing and release strategy to formal qualities such as its low-key narrative structure and the impressionistic use of imagery and music. Other issues examined in detail include the role of stardom, particularly the role of Bill Murray, the distinctive 'auteur' contribution made by writer-director Sofia Coppola and the film's ambiguous relationship with the romantic comedy genre. Textual and industrial analysis is also supplemented by consideration of online responses to the film that offer insights into the various ways in which it was either appreciated or rejected by viewers.Key Features\* A unique attempt to pin down the precise nature of the film and its appeal toviewers\* A major contribution to our understanding of the contemporary American indie film landscape\* Written by a leading authority on American indie filmGeoff King is Professor of FIlm and TV Studies at Brunel University and author of books including American Independent Cinema and Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood MeetsIndependent Cinema.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - American IndiesSeries Editors: Gary Needham and Yannis TzioumakisThis series of books covers contemporary American films that have found commercial success but which have not been constrained by the formal and ideological parameters often associated with mainstream Hollywood cinema. Each volume explores a specific film and combines innovative and original research with clearly defined classroom-orientated frameworks of film analysis.Brokeback MountainGary NeedhamUpon its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the heart of American mythology, film spectatorship and genre. Brokeback Mountain offered an independent and queer revision of the conventions and clichés of the western and the melodrama through a studied exploration of homophobia and the closet. This book examines Brokeback Mountain in relation to indie cinema, genre, spectatorship, editing, and homosexuality. In doing so, it brings film studies and queer theory into dialogue with one another and explains the importance of Brokeback Mountain as both a contemporary independent and queer film.Key Features\* Offers an overview of Focus Features as a hybrid company operating across both the mainstream and independent cinema sectors\* Analyses Brokeback Mountain as a western and places it within an enduring historical and cultural context of relations between homosexuality and the genre\* Analyses Brokeback Mountain as a melodrama examining the film's relationship to concepts of pathos, backward feeling and passivity\* Proposes a new way of thinking about gay spectatorship that takes into account how editing and cruising relate to one anotherGary Needham is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Politics Study GuidesSeries Editor: Duncan WattsThis is a series of well-written, accessible introductions to key areas of Politics courses taught at both A-level/Highers and first-year undergraduate level.Each book is structured in the same way, with all chapters including the following:. A short boxed paragraph of introduction, setting out the broad area to be explored. A brief conclusion summarising what you should have learnt. A glossary of key terms. Sample examination questions. Helpful websites. Suggestions for further readingThe emphasis is on responding to student needs by producing up-to-date material written in a user-friendly style.Political CommunicationSteven FosterThis introduction to the study of political communication covers the following subjects:. The history of the media in the UK and the USA including the concentration of ownership and the emergence of new media technologies. The relationship between the media and political parties, especially the effect the media has had on the policies and internal power structures of parties and other organisations such as pressure groups. Media influence on the electorate and the conduct of democratic politics. The constitutional significance of the politics of the mediaThe first part of the book focuses on the social context and includes detailed analysis of the processes of political communication today, as well as the impact of these on parties, pressure groups and government. Developments in the US are considered alongside those in the UK. The second part places media politics in their constitutional context, covering issues such as open government and freedom of expression, freedom of information, privacy and human rights. Attempts by the governments of the UK and the US to manipulate and control the media are also explored.Steven Foster is a member of the Department of Politics at the Manchester Grammar School. He is author of The.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism, and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside Irish, Welsh, and European, and relates political events to national economic, cultural, and social trends.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twentieth-Century American Culture Series Editor: Martin Halliwell This series provides accessible but challenging studies of American culture in the twentieth century. Each title covers a specific decade and offers a clear overview of its dominant cultural forms and influential texts of the decade, discussing their historical impact and cultural legacy. Collectively the series reframes the notion of 'decade studies' through the prism of cultural production and rethinks the ways in which decades are usually periodised. Broad contextual approaches to the particular decade are combined with textual case studies, focusing on themes of modernity, commerce, freedom, power, resistance, community, race, class, gender, sexuality, internationalism, war, technology and popular culture. American Culture in the 1910s Mark Whalan ENDORSEMENT TO FOLLOW This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Chapters on fiction and poetry, art and photography, film and vaudeville, and music, theatre, and dance explore these developments, linking detailed commentary with focused case studies of influential texts and events. These range from Tarzan of the Apes to The Birth of a Nation, from the radical modernism of Gertrude Stein and the Provincetown Players to the earliest jazz recordings. A final chapter explores the huge impact of the First World War on cultural understandings of nationalism, citizenship and propaganda. Key Features \*Three case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists \*Detailed chronology of 1910s American Culture \*Bibliographies for each chapter \*Fifteen black and white illustrations Mark Whalan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of The Letters of.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America: fiction and non-fiction, music and radio, film and theatre, and serious and popular visual arts. There is also a chapter on the 'culture of war' throughout the decade, and the intellectual context of 1940s culture is introduced: both the isolationism advocated by the political right, and the hawkish position adopted by progressives who used their artistic abilities to sway public opinion. Readers are presented with an accessible but challenging exploration of American culture in the 1940s which demonstrates the benefit of observing the decade as a whole, seeking out the unities and comparable features of wartime and the immediate post-war period in the US. Key Features: \* Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends \* Detailed chronology of 1940s American culture \* Bibliographies for each chapter \* 10 black and white illustrations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Slavoj Zizek is probably the most important figure in contemporary theory since Michel Foucault. Politically urgent as well as intellectually engaging, Zizek's writing has had an enormous impact on contemporary philosophy, social theory, cultural studies and communications departments. Zizek's thought is driven by the need to find an alternative to the problems of globalisation and the supposed end of ideology in the advanced democracies. His insights into popular culture and political life internationally have made him a 'must read' for anybody serious about understanding the condition the world is in today. Yet his works have often seemed an intellectual roller-coaster, to be enjoyed and admired, but not emulated or critically engaged.In Zizek and Politics, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe go beyond standard introductions to spell out a new approach to reading Zizek, one that can be highly critical as well as deeply appreciative. They show that Zizek has a raft of fundamental positions that enable his theoretical positions to be put to work on practical problems. Explaining these positions with clear examples, they outline why Zizek's confrontation with thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze has so radically changed how we think about society. They then go on to track Zizek's own intellectual development during the last twenty years, as he has grappled with theoretical problems and the political climate of the War on Terror. This book is a major addition to the literature on Zizek and a crucial critical introduction to his thought.Matthew Sharpe lectures in philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He has published Slavoj Zizek: A Little Piece of the Real and is co-editor of Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Essays on Slavok Zizek (2005).Geoff Boucher lectures in literary studies and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He has published articles on Zizek in Telos and is co-editor of Traversing the Fa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This highly original study explores how different, but connected ways of seeing infuse relationships between place and belonging. Its argument is that all memories, whether fleeting glimpses or elaborated narratives, necessarily invoke imagined pasts - tenement life, island cultures, vanished moralities, even the origins of social science. But do these multiple recollections share a common frame of reference Are perceptions conditioned by a collective social imaginary Visions of nation and community, from Adam Ferguson's ideas on the development of civil society through John Grierson's pioneering of documentary film to the structures of feeling in popular fiction, reflect the impact of modernity on Scottish culture since the late eighteenth century. While landscape as the symbolic 'face of Scotland' and its attendant mental contours have been produced and debated in many genres, including travel literature, social commentary, novels and magazines, changes in the means of capturing and presenting images, particularly the emergent possibilities of the photograph, have affected the ways we identify and remember. The analysis adopts a broadly sociological approach, but its range lends equal appeal to social historians, cultural geographers, and particularly those pursuing visual or memory studies. Key Features \*Analyses relationships between memory and local and national identities \*Interpretive connections provide links between sociology, history, cultural geography and visual studies \*Contains 25 black and white illustrations and numerous case studies Andrew Blaikie is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. His publications include Illegitimacy, Sex and Society: Northeast Scotland, 1750-1900 (1994) and Ageing and Popular Culture (1999). He is co-editor of the journal Cultural Sociology.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Saul Newman is one of the pioneers in redeeming the promise of anarchist thought with the resources of contemporary continental philosophy. In this work, at once philosophical and political, Newman engages such thinkers as Foucault, Badiou and Rancière alongside classical and contemporary anarchist thought as well as struggles such as the anti-globalization movement. The Politics of Postanarchism offers a compelling framework for progressive political thought and intervention.'Todd May, Class of 1941 Professor of the Humanities, Clemson University'In this book, Saul Newman announces postanarchism as a lively, vital and highly pertinent perspective for our times. With a brilliant grasp of the anarchist tradition, of continental theory and the political challenges of the contemporary world, Newman unpacks the meaning and relevance of postanarchism to readers at all levels of experience. That he manages to do so in a readable and confident style, pays testimony to his own growing reputation as a highly original thinker with a great deal to offer us in terms of showing the link between political theory and political practice. Highly recommended.'Simon Tormey, Professor and Head of School, Social and Political Sciences, University of SydneyWhat is the relevance of anarchism for politics and political theory today While many have in the past dismissed anarchism, the author contends that anarchism's heretical critique of authority, and its insistence on full equality and liberty, places it at the forefront of the radical political imagination today. With the unprecedented expansion of state power in the name of security, the current 'crisis of capitalism', and the terminal decline of Marxist and social democratic projects, it is time to reconsider anarchism as a form of politics. This book seeks to renew anarchist thought through the concept of postanarchism.Saul Newman is Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is author of.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military TechnologyTechnicities of PerceptionRyan Bishop and John PhillipsAn intelligent, imaginative, wide-ranging and lucid work. It marks a genuinemove forward for the application of deconstruction to cultural studies. And whatis especially remarkable about the book is its stunning range of examples andcases, which include Finnegans Wake, Transformer toys, Malaysian gothicthrillers, poems by Keats and Blake, the war in Bosnia, ventriloquism, diasporaand the Cold-War, postcolonial formations in South East Asia.Professor Simon During, Department of English, Johns Hopkins UniversityA richly fascinating, very wise book which launches a brave, telling, and at timesdevastating cultural critique of the military-industrial complex. The argumentswhich praise the modernist avant-garde for its prescience and also its techniquesof resistance to war technology are startling, refreshing and brilliant.Professor Adam Piette, School of English, University of SheffieldThis book analyses the operation of current state-of-the-art military technology andthe experimental art, music and writing of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. Modernist aesthetic renders clearer the operations of the vast surveillanceand killing machines of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.A basic aim of visual technologies is to collapse the sphere of perception with that ofthe perceived object. Modernist aesthetics, working the same terrain, shows that therealways remains an irreducible element of time and space. Military technology tendstowards the impossible goal of eliminating this dimension, while modernist aestheticsexploits it. Placing military operations alongside modernist aesthetics reveals the civicsphere suspended between two incompatible desires.Through close readings of the art and writing of Djuna Barnes, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, Mina Loy, Stéphane Mallarmé,

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twentieth-Century American Culture Series Editor: Martin Halliwell This series provides accessible but challenging studies of American culture in the twentieth century. Each title covers a specific decade and offers a clear overview of its dominant cultural forms and influential texts of the decade, discussing their historical impact and cultural legacy. Collectively the series reframes the notion of 'decade studies' through the prism of cultural production and rethinks the ways in which decades are usually periodised. Broad contextual approaches to the particular decade are combined with textual case studies, focusing on themes of modernity, commerce, freedom, power, resistance, community, race, class, gender, sexuality, internationalism, war, technology and popular culture. American Culture in the 1910s Mark Whalan ENDORSEMENT TO FOLLOW This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Chapters on fiction and poetry, art and photography, film and vaudeville, and music, theatre, and dance explore these developments, linking detailed commentary with focused case studies of influential texts and events. These range from Tarzan of the Apes to The Birth of a Nation, from the radical modernism of Gertrude Stein and the Provincetown Players to the earliest jazz recordings. A final chapter explores the huge impact of the First World War on cultural understandings of nationalism, citizenship and propaganda. Key Features \*Three case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists \*Detailed chronology of 1910s American Culture \*Bibliographies for each chapter \*Fifteen black and white illustrations Mark Whalan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. He is the editor of The Letters of.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Slavoj Zizek is probably the most important figure in contemporary theory since Michel Foucault. Politically urgent as well as intellectually engaging, Zizek's writing has had an enormous impact on contemporary philosophy, social theory, cultural studies and communications departments. Zizek's thought is driven by the need to find an alternative to the problems of globalisation and the supposed end of ideology in the advanced democracies. His insights into popular culture and political life internationally have made him a 'must read' for anybody serious about understanding the condition the world is in today. Yet his works have often seemed an intellectual roller-coaster, to be enjoyed and admired, but not emulated or critically engaged.In Zizek and Politics, Geoff Boucher and Matthew Sharpe go beyond standard introductions to spell out a new approach to reading Zizek, one that can be highly critical as well as deeply appreciative. They show that Zizek has a raft of fundamental positions that enable his theoretical positions to be put to work on practical problems. Explaining these positions with clear examples, they outline why Zizek's confrontation with thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze has so radically changed how we think about society. They then go on to track Zizek's own intellectual development during the last twenty years, as he has grappled with theoretical problems and the political climate of the War on Terror. This book is a major addition to the literature on Zizek and a crucial critical introduction to his thought.Matthew Sharpe lectures in philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He has published Slavoj Zizek: A Little Piece of the Real and is co-editor of Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Essays on Slavok Zizek (2005).Geoff Boucher lectures in literary studies and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He has published articles on Zizek in Telos and is co-editor of Traversing the Fa.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history. Ibn Khaldun has inspired at least as much interest among modern scholars as his immediate contemporaries. Legions of sociologists, anthropologists and historians have studied his philosophy of history, treating the Muqaddimah as a timeless piece of philosophy. Most studies of Ibn Khaldun ignore the fascinating story his own life and times. Rejecting portrayals of Ibn Khaldun as a modern mind lost in medieval obscurity, Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times demonstrates how Ibn Khaldun's ideas were shaped by his historical context and personal motivations. Relying on original Arabic sources, most importantly Ibn Khaldun's unique autobiography, this is the first complete, scholarly biography of Ibn Khaldun in English.While previous studies dismissed Ibn Khaldun's autobiography as lacking in psychological depth, Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times challenges this view. Demonstrating the rich and complex nature of Ibn Khaldun's memoirs, Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times not only tells the life story of Ibn Khaldun in an accessible way, it also introduces readers to the fourteenth-century Mediterranean world. Seen in the context of a politically tumultuous and religiously contentious fourteenth century Mediterranean, Ibn Khaldun's ideas about tribalism, identity, religion and history are even more relevant to pressing, modern concerns.Allen Fromherz is an Assistant Professor of Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic History at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His upcoming publication, The Almohads: Rise of an Islamic Empire, is due to appear in 2010.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - North-East England in the Middle Ages was honeycombed with autonomous jurisdictions known as 'liberties', which reduced the Crown's direct authority in the region. The greatest of these were: Tynedale, Redesdale, Hexhamshire, Tynemouthshire, and the Palatinate of Durham.