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• Author(s): Ross Melnick • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSamuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, ...

• Author(s): J. Thomas Rimer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThis anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's b...

• Author(s): Johannes Fabian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship betwe...

• Author(s): Johannes Fabian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTime and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship betwe...

• Author(s): Kent F. Schull • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman EmpireFrom the Back Cover'A well-documented contribution to the budding historiography...

• Author(s): Anca Giurescu • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis volume covers the author's life in the years 1944-1988. Born into privilege immediately before Wo...

• Author(s): Justin Mcdaniel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionStories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Tha...

• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralThis standard text is updated annually by the experienced tax professional...

• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHitchcock Annual: Volume 18 features essays on Hitchcock and Italian art cinema; the cinematic and cultural...

• Author(s): Laura Sjoberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryLaura Sjoberg positions gender and gender subordination as key factors in the making and fight...

• Author(s): Richard Locke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are...

• Author(s): Paul Robert Magocsi • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThe fifth volume of Carpatho-Rusyn Studies follows the same format as previous volumes. It i...

• Author(s): Sarah Perks • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTaking a text-led approach, with the emphasis on more recent popular films, Studying French Ci...

• Author(s): Sarah Perks • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTaking a text-led approach, with the emphasis on more recent popular films, Studying French Ci...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Metzger • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Political"The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical dev...

• Author(s): Sharlene Furuto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare s...

• Author(s): Sharlene Furuto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare s...

• Author(s): Lina Khatib • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismStorytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are tol...

• Author(s): Antonio Costa Pinto • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Modern - GeneralLeading experts review the theory and historiography of fascism, discussing how developments within the ...

• Author(s): Michael Flynn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismBefore 9/11, films addressing torture outside of the horror/slasher genre depicted the practic...

• Author(s): John Atkinson • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe second issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Sport on film'-themed issue, which will include...

• Author(s): Joseph Garncarz • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume tells the story of the cinema of Germany in 24 essays, each concerning an individual film, in a fr...

• Author(s): Peter Pastor • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThis collection of essays from military historians focus on various aspects of the eastern fr...

• Author(s): Matt Cole • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFrom the Back CoverAuthor Approved Politics Study Guides Series Editor: Duncan Watts This is a series of well-w...

• Author(s): Cindy Weinstein • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralRethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social crit...

• Author(s): Cindy Weinstein • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralRethinking the category of aesthetics in light of recent developments in literary theory and social crit...

• Author(s): Kai–Cheung Dung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiterarySet in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified ...

• Author(s): Alan Segal • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - Ethics & Moral TeachingStories of rape, murder, adultery, and conquest raise crucial issues in the Heb...

• Author(s): Paul Fischer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternBy blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an e...

• Author(s): Arif Dirlik • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWithin this text, the contributors provide a historical perspectiv...

• Author(s): Aaron Edlin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThe Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, ti...

• Author(s): Patricia Allmer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the prese...

• Author(s): Jayne Pilling • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAs critical interest has grown in the unique ways in which art animation explores and depicts subjective experie...

• Author(s): Claire Hines • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismEven in our increasingly sexualized culture hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still...

• Author(s): Scott Balcerzak • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMuch has shifted since the emergence of the first volume of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Man...

• Author(s): Scott Balcerzak • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMuch has shifted since the emergence of the first volume of Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Man...

• Author(s): Lina Khatib • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismStorytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cine...

• Author(s): Patricia Allmer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the prese...

• Author(s): Jayne Pilling • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAs critical interest has grown in the unique ways in which art animation explores and depicts subjective experie...

• Author(s): Kate Taylor • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismEast Asian cinema has become a worldwide phenonemon, and directors such as Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar Wai, and Takas...

• Author(s): Judith Butler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionThis classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the gen...

• Author(s): Michael Cohen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - ConservativeSolomon Schechter (1847–1915), the charismatic leader of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS),...

• Author(s): Michael Kelly • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsFor decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or ...

• Author(s): Ian Holliday • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaContemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and it is unclear how other nations should ...

• Author(s): Ian Holliday • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaContemporary Myanmar faces a number of political challenges, and it is unclear how other nations should ...

• Author(s): Courtney Bender • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionOver the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholar...

• Author(s): Ross Melnick • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and p...

• Author(s): Peter Tscherkassky • Publisher: Austrian Film Museum • Publisher Imprint: Austrian Film Museum • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe unique contribution of Austrian avant-garde film to world cinema is widely acknowledged. This i...

• Author(s): Richard Cohen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Sacred WritingsFeaturing the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century India...

• Author(s): Amresh Sinha • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the ce...

• Author(s): William Logan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoetryFrom the Back CoverPraise for The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin"Our wittiest critic of contemporary v...

• Author(s): Amresh Sinha • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn spite of the overwhelming interest in the study of memory and trauma, no single volume has yet explored the ce...

• Author(s): Gertrud Koch • Publisher: Austrian Film Museum • Publisher Imprint: Austrian Film Museum • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionFrom moving images on the Internet to giant IMAX displays: The number of screens in the public and pri...

• Author(s): Valerie Hudson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaSex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that ...

• Author(s): Eugene De Thassy • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: GeneralEugene de Thassy describes life in Hungary between 1920 and 1945. He details his wartime experiences as a young army...

• Author(s): Gilbert C. F. Fong • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralEdited by Gilbert Fong, Shelby Chan, Lucas Klein, and Bei Dao, The World of Words set is...

• Author(s): Shuntaro Tanikawa • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDrawn from Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The Metaphor of the Sea is a chapb...

• Author(s): Clive Myer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCritical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising...

• Author(s): Fumiko Hayashi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ClassicsIn this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to...