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Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Sherry Fields
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• Author(s): Sherry Fields • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryIf one of the goals of historical research is to get as close as possible to the texture of daily life i...
View full detailsA Topical Bibliography of Computer (-Aided) Translation
Sin-Wai Chan
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• Author(s): Sin-Wai Chan • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThe rapid advances in information technology has elevated the role of com...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Jan Svankmajer: Dark Alchemy
Peter Hames
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• Author(s): Peter Hames • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis text explores the legacy of the legendary Czech surrealist filmmaker, a key influence on directors such as Ti...
View full detailsHaunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust
Libby Saxton
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• Author(s): Libby Saxton • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHaunted Images takes a close look at a range of treatments of the Holocaust in film, using sustained textual anal...
View full detailsHaunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony, and the Holocaust
Libby Saxton
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• Author(s): Libby Saxton • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHaunted Images takes a close look at a range of treatments of the Holocaust in film, using sustained textual anal...
View full detailsThe University of Hong Kong Museum Journal No. 2
Tina Yee-Wan Pang
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• Author(s): Tina Yee-Wan Pang • Publisher: Hku Museum and Art Gallery • Publisher Imprint: Hku Museum and Art Gallery • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThe true function of a museum is as an educator. Through its collections, ...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 9
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis new issue of the Hitchcock Annual contains studies of Hitchcock and theater, Hitchcock's atheology, and the filmmaker's ...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 14
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIncludes Hitchcock and company; Hitchcock on Griffith; essays on Downhill, Rear Window, Backyard Adventures, and Torn Curtain...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 15
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIncludes Hitchcockian narrative; Hitchcock and India dossier; essays on Alma Reville, Downhill, The Trouble with Harry, and M...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 13
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIncludes Hitchcock and wartime Britain; Hitchcock and carnival; Hitchcock and fascism; essays on Murder!, Downhill, and Topaz...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 11
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIncludes Working with Hitchcock Panel; essays on Hitchcock after Bellour, Vertigo, Suspicion, and Marnie; Hitchcock and Ingma...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 10
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIncludes Screenwriter's Forum; Psycho dossier; essays on The Lodger, Rear Window, and To Catch a Thief; Hitchcock and French ...
View full detailsHitchcock Annual: Volume 12
Sidney Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIncludes Hitchcock and Lang; Hitchcock biography; essays on The Phoenix Tapes, Under Capricorn, Rear Window, and Vertigo; and...
View full detailsCross-Cultural Application of the Mmpi-2 and the Adaptation of the Minnesota Report Computer System in Hong Kong
James Butcher
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• Author(s): James Butcher • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Assessment, Testing & MeasurementPresents an overview of two related aspects of contemporary app...
View full detailsOn Behalf of Their Homeland: Fifty Years of Svu: An Eyewitness Account of the History of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences
Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
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• Author(s): Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU) is a unique cultural organization establis...
View full detailsStudying Videogames
Julian Mcdougall
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• Author(s): Julian Mcdougall • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: GeneralStudying Videogames is the first book to look at videogames as media texts. Written specifically for advanced le...
View full detailsStudying Videogames
Julian Mcdougall
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• Author(s): Julian Mcdougall • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: GeneralStudying Videogames is the first book to look at videogames as media texts. Written specifically for advanced le...
View full detailsEnvisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
Haruo Shirane
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• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapanesePresents a portrait of "The Tale of Genji's" reception and reproduction, taking into consideration a wide va...
View full detailsIntelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary
Jonathan Kahana
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• Author(s): Jonathan Kahana • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American Government - NationalDemonstrates how documentary serves as a cultural laboratory in the thought and practice of ...
View full detailsEndnotes: An Intimate Look at the End of Life
Ruth Ray
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• Author(s): Ruth Ray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befri...
View full detailsEducation, Growth, Aid and Development: Towards Education for All
Linda Chisholm
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• Author(s): Linda Chisholm • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Comparative This book brings together leading authors in the field of education and development, who draw on decades of r...
View full detailsEndnotes: An Intimate Look at the End of Life
Ruth Ray
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• Author(s): Ruth Ray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befri...
View full detailsResearch Methods in Child Welfare
Amy J. L. Baker
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• Author(s): Amy J. L. Baker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareCovers the methodological challenges and the real-life constraints of researc...
View full detailsJosef Von Sternberg: The Case of Lena Smith
Alexander Horwath
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• Author(s): Alexander Horwath • Publisher: Austrian Film Museum • Publisher Imprint: Austrian Film Museum • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brough...
View full detailsStudying from Russia with Love: Instructor's Edition
Will Rimmer
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• Author(s): Will Rimmer • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIt is difficult to imagine now the importance of the Bond films of the early 1960s to British ...
View full detailsThere a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
Ch'Oe Yun
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• Author(s): Ch'Oe Yun • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralCh'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploratio...
View full detailsMedia in the Digital Age
John Pavlik
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• Author(s): John Pavlik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralDigital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old pr...
View full detailsEye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity
Francesco Casetti
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• Author(s): Francesco Casetti • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIs it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other...
View full detailsMedia in the Digital Age
John Pavlik
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• Author(s): John Pavlik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralExamines digital innovations and their positive and negative implications. This book explains that professional journal...
View full detailsMoving Millions: The Commercial Success and Political Controversies of Hong Kong's Railway
Rikkie Yeung
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• Author(s): Rikkie Yeung • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralWith the merger of the MTRC and the KCRC in 2007, the history of Hong Kongs railways turned a new page. The two g...
View full detailsEarly Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)
Haruo Shirane
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• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchThis abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential ...
View full detailsEarly Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)
Haruo Shirane
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• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIntroduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture bo...
View full detailsFrom Dissident to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989-1994
Bernard Ivan Tamas
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• Author(s): Bernard Ivan Tamas • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralLaying out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, the author...
View full detailsThings Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno
Robert Hullot–Kentor
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• Author(s): Robert Hullot–Kentor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionTheodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writing...
View full detailsStudying the Usual Suspects: Instructor's Edition
Judith Gunn
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• Author(s): Judith Gunn • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of "rags to riches" back story that makes not onl...
View full detailsFear of Freedom: With the Essay Fear of Painting
Carlo Levi
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• Author(s): Carlo Levi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralCarlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activism forced him in...
View full detailsStudying Gladiator: Instructor's Edition
Sandy Irvine
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• Author(s): Sandy Irvine • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismGladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fasc...
View full detailsStudying the Sixth Sense: Instructor's Edition
Mark Kirwan-Hayhoe
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• Author(s): Mark Kirwan-Hayhoe • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA surprise hit at the turn of the century, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense was cre...
View full detailsStudying the Wicker Man: Instructor's Edition
Andy Murray
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• Author(s): Andy Murray • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSpecially written for students of Fflm and media studies, Studying The Wicker Man explores the...
View full detailsNature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty
Allen Carlson
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• Author(s): Allen Carlson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsEnvironmental aesthetics is a field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical an...
View full detailsThe Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
Martin Raymond
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• Author(s): Martin Raymond • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyTraces the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveals the larger intellectual trends, ...
View full detailsThe Jean Baudrillard Reader
Jean Baudrillard
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• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Jean Baudrillard Reader (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural...
View full detailsTattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin
Juniper Ellis
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• Author(s): Juniper Ellis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralA book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in ...
View full detailsTattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin
Juniper Ellis
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• Author(s): Juniper Ellis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralA book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in ...
View full detailsCity of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong
Shu–Ching Shih
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• Author(s): Shu–Ching Shih • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryFrom its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British...
View full detailsIntimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures
William Jankowiak
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• Author(s): William Jankowiak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)Examines how different cultures rationalize the expression of...
View full detailsCrossing Horizons: World, Self, and Language in Indian and Western Thought
Shlomo Biderman
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• Author(s): Shlomo Biderman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternExamines the views, outlooks, and attitudes of two distinct cultures: the West and classical India. The author look...
View full detailsHow to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
Zong–Qi Cai
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• Author(s): Zong–Qi Cai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to...
View full detailsThe Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory, and Visual Culture
Frances Guerin
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• Author(s): Frances Guerin • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture is a timely interdisciplinary collection of origin...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America
Hannah Patterson
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• Author(s): Hannah Patterson • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWith 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to ...
View full detailsThe Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism
Antoine Sfeir
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• Author(s): Antoine Sfeir • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ReferenceAntoine Sfeir's Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism is a major resource. Translated for the first time from the o...
View full detailsSubverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat
James Martel
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• Author(s): James Martel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyIn Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays ...
View full detailsChinese Overseas: Migration, Research and Documentation
Chee-Beng Tan
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• Author(s): Chee-Beng Tan • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - China?The issue of Chinese diaspora is a fascinating phenomenon in the midst of globalism, an...
View full detailsClassical Chinese Primer (Reader)
John Wang
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• Author(s): John Wang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDesigned for those who have studied Modern Chinese, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chi...
View full detailsWomen's Poetry
Jo Gill
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• Author(s): Jo Gill • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Hall...
View full detailsOn Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother
Amber Jacobs
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• Author(s): Amber Jacobs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionDespite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychol...
View full detailsDirect Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Dave Saunders
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• Author(s): Dave Saunders • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDirect Cinema is the first comprehensive study of the "direct cinema" movement of 1960s America. Through the inq...
View full detailsJust One Moment More: The Story of One Woman's Return from Siberian Exile
Konstancija Brazeniene
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• Author(s): Konstancija Brazeniene • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralContains the letters of Konstancija Bra eniene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberi...
View full detailsDirect Cinema: Observational Documentary and the Politics of the Sixties
Dave Saunders
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• Author(s): Dave Saunders • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDirect Cinema is the first comprehensive study of the "direct cinema" movement of 1960s America. Through the inq...
View full detailsThe Jewish Criterion in Hungary
András Gero
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• Author(s): András Gero • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryFeatures five essays on why public debate about Hungary's Jewish population has been confined to t...
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