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Transforming Europe
Maria Green Cowles, James Caporaso, Thomas Risse
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• Author(s): Maria Green Cowles | James Caporaso | Thomas Risse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDoes the European Union change the domestic politics and...
View full detailsA Case for Conservatism: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
John Kekes
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• Author(s): John Kekes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political...
View full detailsJames J. Corbett: A Biography of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Popular Theater Headliner
Armond Fields
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• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distingu...
View full detailsCauses of War
Stephen Van Evera
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• Author(s): Stephen Van Evera • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhat causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Eve...
View full detailsThe Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art
Daniel MacKay
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• Author(s): Daniel MacKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as ...
View full detailsDamaged Identities, Narrative Repair: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
Hilde Lindemann Nelson
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• Author(s): Hilde Lindemann Nelson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyHilde Lindemann Nelson focuses on the stories of groups of people--including Gypsies, mothers, nurse...
View full detailsMoney Rules
Henry Laurence
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• Author(s): Henry Laurence • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralHenry Laurence traces financial market reform in Britain and Japan over the last two decades, charting the m...
View full detailsBridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations
Colin Elman, Miriam Fendius Elman
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• Author(s): Colin Elman | Miriam Fendius Elman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBridges and Boundaries offers a conversation between what might loosely be described as traditionalist di...
View full detailsThe Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South
Alex Bontemps
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• Author(s): Alex Bontemps • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesThe Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South ...
View full detailsBody and World
Samuel Todes, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Piotr Hoffman
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• Author(s): Samuel Todes | Hubert L. Dreyfus | Piotr Hoffman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyBody and World is the definitive edition of a book that should now take its place as a major contribution ...
View full detailsThurman Munson: A Baseball Biography
Christopher Devine
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• Author(s): Christopher Devine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports When in 2000 the Baseball Writers Association of America elected the ever-durable Carlton Fisk to the National Baseb...
View full detailsDown and Dirty: Hollywood's Exploitation Filmmakers and Their Movies
Mike Quarles
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• Author(s): Mike Quarles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Taboo breakers and trendsetters, shameless hucksters and famous directors. Exploitation filmmak...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is an anthology of 19 papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball an...
View full detailsModern Hatreds: Cycles of Logics of Action
Stuart J. Kaufman
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• Author(s): Stuart J. Kaufman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralEthnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an eni...
View full detailsThe Achieving Institution
Monat William
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• Author(s): Monat William • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HigherFocusing on the evolution of Northern Illinois University since 1965, the author highlights the proc...
View full detailsRekindling the Movement: Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century
Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz, Richard W. Hurd
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• Author(s): Lowell Turner | Harry C. Katz | Richard W. Hurd • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralFrom gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to appa...
View full detailsDisappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work
Joyce K. Fletcher
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• Author(s): Joyce K. Fletcher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Women in BusinessJoyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they coll...
View full detailsThe Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914
Keely Stauter-Halsted
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• Author(s): Keely Stauter-Halsted • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralHow do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argume...
View full detailsBetween God and Tsar
Isolde Thyret
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• Author(s): Isolde Thyret • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionChallenging traditional interpretations of the roles of royal women in...
View full detailsThe Greek Way of Death: Jealousy in Literature
Robert Garland
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• Author(s): Robert Garland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceSurveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert...
View full detailsAmphibians and Reptiles of Pennsylvania and the Northeast: Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
Arthur C. Hulse, Ellen Censky, C. J. McCoy
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• Author(s): Arthur C. Hulse | Ellen Censky | C. J. McCoy • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Animals - Reptiles & AmphibiansUntil now, no detailed treatment of the Pennsylvania herpetofauna has ...
View full detailsJourneys from Childhood to Midlife
Emmy E. Werner, Ruth S. Smith
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• Author(s): Emmy E. Werner | Ruth S. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - RuralIn a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and...
View full detailsThe Origins of Music
Nils L. Wallin, Bjorn Merker, Steven Brown
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• Author(s): Nils L. Wallin | Bjorn Merker | Steven Brown • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralThe book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology.Wha...
View full detailsOligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools
Xavier Vives
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• Author(s): Xavier Vives • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThe "oligopoly problem"--the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors--is one of the more persisten...
View full detailsTruth in Context: An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity
Michael P. Lynch
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• Author(s): Michael P. Lynch • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: EpistemologyA Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 1999Academic debates about pluralism and truth have become increasingly polarized in recent...
View full detailsDivine Sovereignty
Daniel Engster
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• Author(s): Daniel Engster • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow did the modern state become the Leviathan that Hobbes described? Engste...
View full detailsThree Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil
Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
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• Author(s): Sylvie Courtine-Denamy | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThree women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human fa...
View full detailsA Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
Hud Hudson
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• Author(s): Hud Hudson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismHud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human persons according to which human persons a...
View full detailsBlood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945
Richard D. E. Burton
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• Author(s): Richard D. E. Burton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair--explosions of violence punctuated ...
View full detailsClaiming the City
Mary Lethert Wingerd
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• Author(s): Mary Lethert Wingerd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOAre Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity...
View full detailsFamous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
Peter M. Garber
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• Author(s): Peter M. Garber • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryThe jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanat...
View full detailsFeeding the World
Vaclav Smil
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• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA realistic yet encouraging look at how society can change in ways that will allow us to feed an expanding global population.This book addresses the qu...
View full detailsThe New Hollywood: What the Movies Did with the New Freedoms of the Seventies
James Bernardoni
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• Author(s): James Bernardoni • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The "Old Hollywood" of studios, stars, and house directors began to break up in the 1960s. New...
View full detailsAt the Margins of Orthodoxy
Paul W. Werth
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• Author(s): Paul W. Werth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionIn a period of dramatic social change, when Orthodoxy and nationalism were the twin pillar...
View full detailsSlaves, Sailors, Citizens
Steven Ramold
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• Author(s): Steven Ramold • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarAs many as one in six Union navy sailors was African American, many of them forme...
View full detailsVouchers within Reason
James G. Dwyer
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• Author(s): James G. Dwyer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & Reform - School SafetyObserving the storm of recent debates around school vouchers, James G. Dwyer c...
View full detailsNational Purpose in the World Economy
Rawi Abdelal
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• Author(s): Rawi Abdelal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentHow do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalism...
View full detailsThe Real World of Employee Ownership: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
John Logue, Jacquelyn Yates, William Greider
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• Author(s): John Logue | Jacquelyn Yates | William Greider • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralUsing data from an extensive study of employee-owned companies in Ohio, where employee ownership is a well-d...
View full detailsSyndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987
Hal Erickson
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• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Here is an excellent reference book on "first run" syndication--the distribution of programs...
View full detailsOur Elders Lived It
Deborah Davis Jackson
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• Author(s): Deborah Davis Jackson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesMore than half of all Native Americans live in cities, yet urban indians ha...
View full detailsNaval Campaigns of the Civil War
Paul Calore
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• Author(s): Paul Calore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This analysis of naval engagements during the War Between the States presents the action from the effort...
View full detailsHollyworld: Space, Power, and Fantasy in the American Economy
Aida Hozic
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• Author(s): Aida Hozic • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralHollywood is currently one of the largest and most profitable sectors of the U.S. economy. In just a few decad...
View full detailsRats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World
James B. Lieber
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• Author(s): James B. Lieber • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralBeneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover...
View full detailsThe Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism
Wolfgang Streeck, Kozo Yamamura
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• Author(s): Wolfgang Streeck | Kozo Yamamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Free Enterprise & CapitalismWhy was the rise of capitalism in Germany and Japan associated not with lib...
View full detailsFear and Sanctuary: Burmese Refugees in Thailand
Hazel J. Lang
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• Author(s): Hazel J. Lang • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: GeneralAn examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom have f...
View full detailsPearl Harbor Survivors: An Oral History of 24 Servicemen
Harry Spiller
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• Author(s): Harry Spiller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On December 7, 1941, Japan waged a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base...
View full detailsMore Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Artists from the Later 20th Century
David Dicaire
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• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music The first book by David Dicaire, Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century, (McFarland...
View full detailsThe Early Days of Radio Broadcasting
George H. Douglas
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• Author(s): George H. Douglas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Precisely how and why radio developed as it did is a fascinating story, told with authority ...
View full detailsAmerican Film Studies: An Historical Encyclopedia
Gene Fernett
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• Author(s): Gene Fernett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The business of filmmaking began with the Thomas Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Many studios have come ...
View full detailsHoly War: The Rise of Militant Christian, Jewish and Islamic Fundamentalism
David S. New
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• Author(s): David S. New • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Temple Mount is believed by some Jews to be the locus of their ancient Temple. Known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (the N...
View full detailsDiamonds in the Coalfields: 21 Remarkable Baseball Palyers, Managers, and Umpires from Northeast Pennsyvania
William C. Kashatus
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• Author(s): William C. Kashatus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Between 1876 and 1960, nearly 100 northeastern Pennsylvanians played, managed, coached or umpired in the major leag...
View full detailsAndy Warhol
Annette Michelson
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• Author(s): Annette Michelson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA critical primer on the work of Andy Warhol.Andy Warhol (1928-1987), one of the most celebrated artists of the last third o...
View full detailsGadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Jeff Malpas, Ulrich Arnswald, Jens Kertscher
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• Author(s): Jeff Malpas | Ulrich Arnswald | Jens Kertscher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernPhilosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic theory, Plato and He...
View full detailsDynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System
Alicia Juarrero
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• Author(s): Alicia Juarrero • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Mind & BodyWhat is the difference between a wink and a blink? The answer is important not only to philosophers of mind, for significant moral ...
View full detailsEnlightenment Aberrations
David W. Bates
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• Author(s): David W. Bates • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn Enlightenment Aberrations, David W. Bates shows that error was a complex, important, and by no means entire...
View full detailsQueer (Un)Friendly Film and Television
James R. Keller
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• Author(s): James R. Keller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In the past, representations of alternative lifestyles on film were, even in their most explicit forms, faint a...
View full detailsProvincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment
Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov, Alexander M. Martin, Alexander M. Martin
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• Author(s): Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov | Alexander M. Martin | Alexander M. Martin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe memoir...
View full detailsDays of Discontent
June Melby Benowitz
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• Author(s): June Melby Benowitz • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesHolding fast to traditional values in the face of unprecedented economic hardship, ne...
View full detailsEighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed: Anguish, God and Existentialism
Sander H. Lee
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• Author(s): Sander H. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This new textbook is an abridgment of the author's earlier Woody Allen's Angst: Philosophical Com...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study of Films and Directors
Peter Hanson
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• Author(s): Peter Hanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represen...
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