Author: Alisa S. Lebow
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: evidence, visible, jewish, person, first
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-06-18
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 0816643547
ISBN-13: 9780816643547

Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this intimate approach. Jewish filmmakers have particularly thrived in this genre, using it to explore disparate definitions of the self in relation to the larger groups of family and community. In First Person Jewish, Alisa S. Lebow examines more than a dozen films from Jewish artists to reveal how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively (and at times unwittingly) with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. Focusing

Author: Scott Nygren
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: unfolding, history, cinema, japanese, frames, time
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-14
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0816647089
ISBN-13: 9780816647088

Until 1951, when Kurosawa’s Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored. In Time Frames, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Rashomon. He takes up the central question of which, and whose, Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country’s cinema—an issue complicated

Author: Meng Yue
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: empires, edges, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-06-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816644128
ISBN-13: 9780816644124

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly

Authors:Stanley Aronowitz, Peter Bratsis,
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: reconsidered, theory, state, lost, paradigm
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0816632944
ISBN-13: 9780816632947

With increasing globalization, the meaning and role of the nation-state are in flux. At the same time, state theory, which might help to explain such a trend, has fallen victim to the general decline of radical movements, particularly the crisis in Marxism. This volume seeks to enrich and complicate current political debates by bringing state theory back to the fore and assessing its relevance to the social phenomena and thought of our day. Throughout, it becomes clear that, whether confronting the challenges of postmodern and neo-institutionalist theory or the crisis of the welfare state and

Author: William S. Saunders
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: magazine, reader, design, harvard, architectural, value, judging
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 081665011X
ISBN-13: 9780816650118

When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and pay for the buildings? Art historians? Or architects themselves?   These provocative essays take up the questions of what people value in architecture and how changing values influence opinions about it. In the intriguing opening essay, Michael Benedikt makes an argument for the role of architects in the delineation of value in architecture. He discusses the differences between icon and canon, a

Author: Cynthia Chris
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: wildlife, watching
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-03-14
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0816645477
ISBN-13: 9780816645473

You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. —Bloodhound Gang It has never been easier for Americans to observe wild and exotic animals from the comfort and safety of their couches. Several cable channels—Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel—provide around-the-clock wildlife programming while the traditional networks regularly broadcast animal documentaries, late-night appearances by zoologists and their animal charges, and sensationalistic specials about animals attacking hapless h

Author: Chon A. Noriega
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: resistance, representation, film, chicanos
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1992-10-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0816622183
ISBN-13: 9780816622184