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Feeling Revolution

Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin

By: Anna Toropova

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Feeling Revolution

Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin

By: Anna Toropova

Stalin-era cinema was designed to promote emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person - ranging from happiness and victorious laughter, to hatred for enemies. Feeling Revolution shows how the Soviet film industry's efforts to find an emotionally resonant language that could speak to a mass audience came to centre on the development of a distinctively 'Soviet' cinema. Its case studies of specific film genres, including production films, comedies, thrillers, and melodramas, explore how the genre rules established by Western and prerevolutionary Russian cinema were reoriented to new emotional settings. 'Sovietising' audience emotions did not prove to be an easy feat. The tensions, frustrations, and missteps of this process are outlined in Feeling Revolution, with reference to a wide variety of primary sources, including the artistic council discussions of the Mosfil'm and Lenfil'm studios and the Ministry of Cinematography. Bringing the limitations of the Stalinist ideological project to light, Anna Toropova reveals cinema's capacity to contest the very emotional norms that it was entrusted with crafting.

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Oxford University Press

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0192566830

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Sondersammlungen im 21. Jahrhundert

Organisation, Dienstleistungen, Ressourcen

By: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

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Sondersammlungen im 21. Jahrhundert

Organisation, Dienstleistungen, Ressourcen

By: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

Dieser Band ist das Ergebnis einer internationalen Tagung mit dem Titel 'Zwischen Kulturmanagement und Forschung: Sondersammlungen im 21. Jahrhundert' ..."; held Nov. 22-25, 2005, in Weimar--p. viii.

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Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

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3447057432

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Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats

Essays on the contemporary Australian state

By: Anna Yeatman

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Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats

Essays on the contemporary Australian state

By: Anna Yeatman

This collection of essays in political sociology and public policy contests some of the fundamental features of the contemporary State as it is manifested in Australia. It explores themes such as the development of the complex interventionist State, characterised by the proliferation of its activities to encompass virtually every feature of its subjects' daily lives and functioning as a central site of struggle over the distribution of social, economic, political and cultural resources. It also examines the impact of the so-called new social movements - the women's movement, the various multiracial and multicultural movements, and the environmental movement - which make new claims on the democratisation of the distribution of resources, and investigates the impact on the State of the pressure for economic 'restructuring' arising from the new terms of competition within a global economy in recession. In tracing the links between these themes, Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats makes a major contribution to a critical tradition of writing and analysis in public administration.

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1000256413

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Imaging Russia 2000

Film and Facts

By: Anna M. Lawton

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Imaging Russia 2000

Film and Facts

By: Anna M. Lawton

Anna Lawton deftly tells two stories--one about the evolution of Russian film since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the other about Russian life during that same period. She managed to capture a vivid portrait of Moscow of the 1990s, and to remind us that the Soviet past remains omnipresent in the new Russia. Russia 2000: Film and Facts is a must read for anyone who cares about Russia, or about film."Blair Ruble, Director, The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

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New Academia Publishing, LLC

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0974493430

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Returning the Gaze

A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949

By: Anna Everett

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Returning the Gaze

A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949

By: Anna Everett

Rediscovers and examines the lost history of African-American film criticism from the first half of the century.

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Duke University Press

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0822326140

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Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club

By: Anna Kornbluh

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Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club

By: Anna Kornbluh

Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: “the mode of production,” “ideology,” and “mediation.” In explaining how these concepts operate and how they have been used and misused in film studies, the volume employs a case study to exemplify the practice of Marxist film theory. Fight Club is an exceptionally useful text with which to explore these three concepts because it so vividly and pedagogically engages with economic relations, ideological distortion, and opportunities for transformation. At the same time, it is a very typical film in terms of the conditions of its production, its marketing, and its popularity. Adapted from a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, the film is a contemporary classic that has lent itself to significant re-interpretation with every shift in the political economic landscape since its debut. Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club models a detailed cinematic interpretation that students can practice with other films, and furnishes a set of ideas about cinema and society that can be carried into other kinds of study, giving students tools for analyzing culture broadly defined.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501347322

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Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Third Edition

By: Anna Atefeh Farzindar,Diana Inkpen

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Natural Language Processing for Social Media, Third Edition

By: Anna Atefeh Farzindar,Diana Inkpen

In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication. The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing on the latter's impact on our daily lives, both on a personal and a professional level. Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most promising avenues for social media data processing. It is a scientific challenge to develop powerful methods and algorithms that extract relevant information from a large volume of data coming from multiple sources and languages in various formats or in free form. This book will discuss the challenges in analyzing social media texts in contrast with traditional documents. Research methods in information extraction, automatic categorization and clustering, automatic summarization and indexing, and statistical machine translation need to be adapted to a new kind of data. This book reviews the current research on NLP tools and methods for processing the non-traditional information from social media data that is available in large amounts, and it shows how innovative NLP approaches can integrate appropriate linguistic information in various fields such as social media monitoring, health care, and business intelligence. The book further covers the existing evaluation metrics for NLP and social media applications and the new efforts in evaluation campaigns or shared tasks on new datasets collected from social media. Such tasks are organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (such as SemEval tasks), the National Institute of Standards and Technology via the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) and the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), or the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In this third edition of the book, the authors added information about recent progress in NLP for social media applications, including more about the modern techniques provided by deep neural networks (DNNs) for modeling language and analyzing social media data.

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Springer Nature

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3031021754

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Laclau and Mouffe

The Radical Democratic Imaginary

By: Anna Marie Smith

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Laclau and Mouffe

The Radical Democratic Imaginary

By: Anna Marie Smith

Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly effective theory of identity formation and power relations that carefully draws from the criticism of political theory from postmodern anti-foundationalist political theory.

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1134855656

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Kinoglasnost

Soviet Cinema in Our Time

By: Anna Lawton

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Kinoglasnost

Soviet Cinema in Our Time

By: Anna Lawton

An examination of soviet cinema under Glasnost and Perestrokïa.

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CUP Archive

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0521388147

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New Arctic Cinemas

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

By: Scott MacKenzie,Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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New Arctic Cinemas

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

By: Scott MacKenzie,Anna Westerstahl Stenport

For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. It is now impossible to ignore the ways the climate crisis, expanding resource extraction, and Indigenous political mobilization in the circumpolar North are constituent parts of the global present. New Arctic Cinemas presents an original, comparative, and interventionist historiography of film and media in twenty-first-century Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Canada, and the United States to situate Arctic media in the place it rightfully deserves to occupy: as central to global environmental concerns and Indigenous media sovereignty and self-determination movements. The works of contemporary Arctic filmmakers, from Zacharias Kunuk and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril to Amanda Kernell and Inuk Silis Høegh, reach worldwide audiences. In examining the reach and influence of these artists and their work, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport reveal a global media system of intertwined production contexts, circulation opportunities, and imaginaries—all centering the Arctic North.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390555

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The Sounds of Silent Films

New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice

By: Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch

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The Sounds of Silent Films

New Perspectives on History, Theory and Practice

By: Claus Tieber,Anna Katharina Windisch

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

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1137410728

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American Independent Cinema

Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

By: Anna Backman Rogers

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American Independent Cinema

Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

By: Anna Backman Rogers

Examining films by Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmusch and Sofia Coppola to highlight their use of cinematic time as a mode of philosophical thought, this book brings new and exciting perspectives to American independent cinema.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748693610

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Following Norberg-Schulz

An Architectural History through the Essay Film

By: Anna Ulrikke Andersen

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Following Norberg-Schulz

An Architectural History through the Essay Film

By: Anna Ulrikke Andersen

This book examines the 'window' in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000). It draws new attention to his architectural designs and re-examines his acclaimed theoretical work on the phenomenology of architecture and place within the context of a biography of his life, linking him with other historical figures such as Helen Keller and Rainer Maria Rilke, and framing him within the modernist tradition of the latter. Taking a novel, experimental approach, the book also explores the potential of the essay-film as an innovative new approach to producing architectural history. Bridging archival research and artistic exploration, its ten chapters, written by an architectural historian who is also a film-maker, are each accompanied by a short documentary film, hosted online and linked from within the chapter, which use the medium of film to creatively explore and delve deeper into little-known aspects of Norberg-Schulz's theory of genius loci and the phenomenology of architecture. The book questions what it means to 'follow' those who came before, exploring the positionality of the architectural historian/filmmaker. Offering an insightful account of the life, work, and theory of a key thinker, Following Norberg-Schulz is also essential reading for those interested in practice-led research methodologies, particularly in the practice of film-making and the essay film, providing a highly innovative example of scholarly research which bridges the text-film gap.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135024838X

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Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London

By: Anna Bayman

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Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London

By: Anna Bayman

Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker’s prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and relatively neglected period of the history of pamphleteering. Under James I, after the aggressive Elizabethan exploitation of the new media, pamphleteers carved out a discursive space in which claims about truth and authority could be deconstructed. Avoiding the dangerous polemic employed by the Marprelate pamphleteers, they utilised playful, deliberately ambiguous language that drew readers’ attention to their own literary devices and games. Dekker shows pamphlets to be unstable and roguish, and the nakedly commercial imperatives of the book trade to be central to the world of Jacobean cheap print, as he introduces us to a world in which overlapping and competing discourses jostled for position in London’s streets, markets and pulpits. Contributing to the history of print and to the history of Jacobean London, this book also provides an appraisal of the often misunderstood prose works of an author who deserves more attention, especially from historians, than he has so far received. Critics are slowly becoming aware that Dekker was not the straightforward, simple hack writer of so many accounts; his works are complex and richly reward study in their own right as well as in the context of his more famous predecessors and contemporaries. As such this book will further contribute to a post-revisionist historiography of political consciousness and print cultures under the early Stuarts, as well as illuminate the career of a neglected writer.

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Routledge

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1317010507

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Before the Fall

Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years

By: Anna Lawton

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Before the Fall

Soviet Cinema in the Gorbachev Years

By: Anna Lawton

An expanded edition of Kinoglasnost that examines the fascinating world of Soviet cinema during the yeas of glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. In Before the Fall, Anna Lawton shows how the reforms that shook the foundations of the Bolshevik state and affected economic and social structures have been reflected in the film industry. A new added chapter provides a commentary on the dramatic changes that marked the beginning of democracy in Russia. Soviet cinema has always been closely connected with national political reality, challenging the conventions of bourgeois society and educating the people. In this pioneering study, Lawton discusses the restructuring of the main institutions governing the industry; the abolition of censorship; the emergence of independent production and distribution systems; the dismantling of the old bureaucratic structures and the implementation of new initiatives. She also surveys the films that remained unscreened for decades for political reasons, films of the new wave that look at the past to search out the truth, and those that record current social ills or conjure up a disquieting image of the future. “What makes Kinoglasnost pre-eminent among current studies of the subject is that sustained attention Lawton pays to changes in the formal organization of Soviet cinema and in the cinema industry.” —Julian Graffy, Sight and Sound “The author constructs a complex, multilayered narrative of a steady and significant movement toward radical change in Soviet society, an account of the growing anxiety and the hope experienced by Russian filmmakers and the intelligentsia.” —Ludmila Z. Pruner, Slavic and East European Journal

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New Acdemia+ORM

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1122848501

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Diego Rivera

Murals for the Museum of Modern Art

By: Leah Dickerman,Diego Rivera,Anna Indych-López,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Diego Rivera

Murals for the Museum of Modern Art

By: Leah Dickerman,Diego Rivera,Anna Indych-López,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to NewYork six weeks before the opening and provided him a studio space in the building. There he produced five 'portable murals' - large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, taking on NewYork subjects through monumental images of the urban working class. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that brings together key works from Rivera's 1931 show and related material, this vividly illustrated catalogue casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico and the United States and examines the intersection of art-making and radical politics in the 1930s.

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The Museum of Modern Art

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0870708171

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Natural Language Processing for Social Media

Third Edition

By: Anna Atefeh Farzindar,Diana Inkpen

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Natural Language Processing for Social Media

Third Edition

By: Anna Atefeh Farzindar,Diana Inkpen

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1681738120

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Karl Abraham

Life and Work, a Biography

By: Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten

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Karl Abraham

Life and Work, a Biography

By: Anna Bentinck van Schoonheten

This book provides the reader with rich evidence of the very contemporaneity of Karl Abraham, reminding the reader of his unique clinical contributions to such diverse areas of concentration as the psychoses, depression, and the pre-oedipal.

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Routledge

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042990116X

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Disney Princesses and Tween Identity

The Franchise in Illiberal Hungary

By: Anna Zsubori

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Disney Princesses and Tween Identity

The Franchise in Illiberal Hungary

By: Anna Zsubori

Disney Princesses and Tween Identity: The Franchise in Illiberal Hungary examines how tweens in illiberal Hungary construct verbal and visual identities through engagement with Disney princess animations. Presenting and analyzing ethnographic research in the form of interviews with Hungarian tweens around the time of the populist government’s winning the general elections in 2018, Anna Zsubori reveals the importance of social and cultural context in establishing the Disney princess phenomenon as a heterogeneous cultural force. The ambivalent and sometimes even contradictory ideas of identity expressed by the tweens highlight the role that diverse audiences, local negotiations, and dynamic discourses play in the reception of the Disney princess animations. Combining thematic and semiotic textual analyses of the conversations, tweens’ drawings and building blocks, and broader contextual examinations of the sessions with Hungarian children, this book offers original contributions on both theoretical and methodological levels.

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Lexington Books

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1793647127

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Why Women are Oppressed

By: Anna G. Jónasdóttir

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Why Women are Oppressed

By: Anna G. Jónasdóttir

A feminist of international standing strives toward a theory about the web of relations between the sexes

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Temple University Press

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1566391113

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9781566391115

The Ethnographer's Eye

Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

By: Anna Grimshaw

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The Ethnographer's Eye

Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

By: Anna Grimshaw

Grimshaw discusses issues of vision in anthropology, considering some key figures throughout the twentieth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521774756

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Waste Paper in Early Modern England

Privy Tokens

By: Anna Reynolds,University Teacher in Early Modern Literature Anna Reynolds

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Waste Paper in Early Modern England

Privy Tokens

By: Anna Reynolds,University Teacher in Early Modern Literature Anna Reynolds

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.

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Oxford University Press

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019888270X

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The Media In Russia

By: Arutunyan, Anna

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The Media In Russia

By: Arutunyan, Anna

The Media in Russia' is an introductive volume for students of various fields, including Russian studies, media studies and political science. It explores the media landscape and sets out to identify the chief challenges that Russian journalists have grappled with throughout the 300-year history of the Russian press.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335228895

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9780335228898

Beyond Eastern Noir

Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas

By: Anna Estera Mrozewicz

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Beyond Eastern Noir

Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas

By: Anna Estera Mrozewicz

Explores how the elite Pilgrims Society attempted to influence Anglo-American relations

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474418120

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Observational Cinema

Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life

By: Anna Grimshaw,Amanda Ravetz

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Observational Cinema

Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life

By: Anna Grimshaw,Amanda Ravetz

Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. The author's provide a critical historyand in-depth appraisal of this movement.

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Indiana University Press

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0253221587

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Debating Orientalism

By: Anna Bernard,David Attwell

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Debating Orientalism

By: Anna Bernard,David Attwell

Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.

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Springer

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1137341114

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A Charmed Circle

By: Anna Kavan

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A Charmed Circle

By: Anna Kavan

The story of a family marooned in a country house near an ugly, expanding manufacturing town of the 1920s, while yearning for life in the capital. Anna Kavan masterfully contrasts the English countryside with the brittle London life of the era.

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Peter Owen Publishers

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0720617995

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Trump and Mussolini

Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists

By: Anna Camaiti Hostert,Enzo Antonio Cicchino

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Trump and Mussolini

Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists

By: Anna Camaiti Hostert,Enzo Antonio Cicchino

Trump and Mussolini: Images, Fake News, and Mass Media as Weapons in the Hands of Two Populists compares two historic men of power and influence, Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini, to analyze the commonality of practices and mannerisms between the two. From rhetoric to body language, to their control over oral and written communication and analogous power strategies, they both possess an unusual talent for new technologies which they utilize to their advantage in unique moments in history. Mussolini lived at the beginning of mass society, Trump at the height of social media, both controversial leaders finding means to utilize these periods of time and the tools surrounding them to further their own agendas and influence society, culture, and authority. The authors examine a plethora of topics and themes such as outward personalities and consuming charisma, means and tools of communication and propaganda, and treatment of women, just to name a few, in order to define the relationship and similarities between these two controversial figures. This book was written before the Capitol Hill assault on January 6th 2021. Mussolini in November 1922 in front of the Parliament said: “I could have made a bivouac of this gloomy gray hall: I could have shut down the Parliament and formed a Government exclusively of Fascists; I could have done so, but I did not wish to do so, at least not at this moment.” Trump, however never said anything like this, but indeed, tried to do it.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1683933672

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Intersectionality

Origins, Contestations, Horizons

By: Anna Carastathis

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Intersectionality

Origins, Contestations, Horizons

By: Anna Carastathis

Intersectionality critically examines the mainstreaming and institutionalization of this concept, offering a renewed understanding through close readings of some of its generative texts"--

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803285558

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Rewriting the American Soul

Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

By: Anna Thiemann

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Rewriting the American Soul

Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination

By: Anna Thiemann

Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna Thiemann connects cutting edge trauma theory with the historical context from which it emerged and shows that contemporary novels encourage us to reflect critically on the cultural meanings and political uses of trauma. In doing so, it contributes to a new generation of trauma scholarship that challenges the dominant paradigm in literary and cultural studies. Moreover, the book intervenes in current debates about the relationship between literature and neuroscience insisting that the so-called neuronovel scrutinizes scientific developments and their political ramifications rather than adopting and translating them into aesthetic practices.

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1351846965

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Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

By: Anna McMullan

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Performing Embodiment in Samuel Beckett's Drama

By: Anna McMullan

The representation and experience of embodiment is a central preoccupation of Samuel Beckett’s drama, one that he explored through diverse media. McMullan investigates the full range of Beckett’s dramatic canon for stage, radio, television and film, including early drama, mimes and unpublished fragments. She examines how Beckett’s drama composes and recomposes the body in each medium, and provokes ways of perceiving, conceiving and experiencing embodiment that address wider preoccupations with corporeality, technology and systems of power. McMullan argues that the body in Beckett’s drama reveals a radical vulnerability of the flesh, questioning corporeal norms based on perfectible, autonomous or invulnerable bodies, but is also the site of a continual reworking of the self, and of the boundaries between self and other. Beckett’s re-imagining of the body presents embodiment as a collaborative performance between past and present, flesh and imagination, self and other, including the spectator / listener.

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1000155374

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Gender and Memory in the Globital Age

By: Anna Reading

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Gender and Memory in the Globital Age

By: Anna Reading

This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital cultures are changing the gender of memory and memories of gender through a lively set of original case studies in the ‘globital age’. The study analyses imaginaries of gender, memory and technology in utopian literature; it provides an examination of how foetal scanning alters the gendered memories of the human being. Reading draws on original research on women’s use of mobile phones to capture and share personal and family memories as well as analysing changes to journalism and gendered memories, focusing on the mobile witnessing of terrorism and state terror. The book concludes with a critical reflection on Anna Reading’s work as a playwright mobilising feminist memories as part of a digital theatre project 'Phenomenal Women with Fuel Theatre' which created live and digital memories of inspirational women. The book explains in depth Reading’s original concept of digitised and globalised memory - ‘globital memory’ - and suggests how the scholar may use mobile methodologies to understand how memories travel and change in the globital age.

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Springer

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1137352639

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Deleuze, Altered States and Film

By: Anna Powell

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Deleuze, Altered States and Film

By: Anna Powell

This book offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, trance, vision and ecstasy in their cinematic expression.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748689508

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

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Broken Time, Fragmented Space

A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy

By: Anna Maria Torriglia

Examines how the artists and intellectuals of post-war Italy dealt with the 'shameful' heritage of their fascist upbringing and education by trying to craft a new cultural identity for themselves and the country.

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University of Toronto Press

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080203604X

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Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe

Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin’s Geneva

By: Anna Kvicalova

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Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe

Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin’s Geneva

By: Anna Kvicalova

This book investigates a host of primary sources documenting the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, exploring the history and epistemology of religious listening at the crossroads of sensory anthropology and religion, knowledge, and media. It reconstructs the social, religious, and material relations at the heart of the Genevan Reformation by examining various facets of the city’s auditory culture which was marked by a gradual fashioning of new techniques of listening, speaking, and remembering. Anna Kvicalova analyzes the performativity of sensory perception in the framework of Calvinist religious epistemology, and approaches hearing and acoustics both as tools through which the Calvinist religious identity was constructed, and as objects of knowledge and rudimentary investigation. The heightened interest in the auditory dimension of communication observed in Geneva is studied against the backdrop of contemporary knowledge about sound and hearing in a wider European context.

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3030038378

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

A collection of essays analyzing the representation of the Arctic region in documentary films. Beginning with Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these documentaries have heavily shaped ideas about the contemporary global Far North. In Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, contributors from a variety of scholarly and artistic backgrounds come together to provide a comprehensive study of Arctic documentary cinemas from a transnational perspective. This book offers a thorough analysis of the concept of the Arctic as it is represented in documentary filmmaking, while challenging the notion of “The Arctic” as a homogenous entity that obscures the environmental, historical, geographic, political, and cultural differences that characterize the region. By examining how the Arctic is imagined, understood, and appropriated in documentary work, the contributors argue that such films are key in contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological, and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic, from early cinema to the present. Understanding the role of these films becomes all the more urgent in the present day, as conversations around resource extraction, climate change, and sovereignty take center stage in the Arctic’s representation. “Highly recommended.” —Choice “A thorough exploration of the inexorable links between the circumpolar regions and historic and contemporary documentary filmmaking. It will b valuable to Arctic humanities specialists, particularly as a welcome addition to scholarship on visual depictions of the Arctic by authors such as Ann Fienup-Riordan, Richard Condon, Russell Potter, and Peter Geller, as well as Mackenzie and Westerstahl Steport’s earlier co-edited volume, Films on Ice. It will also be of use to anyone interested in ways of studying linkages between filmmaking, environments, and local and outsider communities.” —Sarah Pickman, Yale University, H-Environment, January 2020

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Indiana University Press

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0253040329

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Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3

By: Oleg Budnitskii,David Engel,Gennady Estraikh,Anna Shternshis

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Jews in the Soviet Union: A History

War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3

By: Oleg Budnitskii,David Engel,Gennady Estraikh,Anna Shternshis

Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during World War II At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world’s three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Understanding the history of Jewish communities under Soviet rule is essential to comprehending the dynamics of Jewish history in the modern world. Only a small number of scholars and the last generation of Soviet Jews who lived during this period hold a deep knowledge of this history. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, is an unprecedented undertaking. Publishing over the next few years, this groundbreaking work draws on rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990s. Volume 3 explores how the Soviet Union’s changing relations with Nazi Germany between the signing of a nonaggression pact in August 1939 and the Soviet victory over German forces in World War II affected the lives of some five million Jews who lived under Soviet rule at the beginning of that period. Nearly three million of those Jews perished; those who remained constituted a drastically diminished group, which represented a truncated but still numerically significant postwar Soviet Jewish community. Most of the Jews who lived in the USSR in 1939 experienced the war in one or more of three different environments: under German occupation, in the Red Army, or as evacuees to the Soviet interior. The authors describe the evolving conditions for Jews in each area and the ways in which they endeavored to cope with and to make sense of their situation. They also explore the relations between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors, the role of the Soviet state in shaping how Jews understood and responded to their changing life conditions, and the ways in which different social groups within the Soviet Jewish population—residents of the newly-annexed territories, the urban elite, small-town Jews, older generations with pre-Soviet memories, and younger people brought up entirely under Soviet rule—behaved. This book is a vital resource for understanding an oft-overlooked history of a major Jewish community.

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1479819441

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