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Explaining the depiction of violence against women in victorian literature: Applying Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to Dickens, Brontë, and Braddon. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
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Kozelsky, Mara. The Kerch Strait and the Azov Sea. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644710.003.0008.
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With warmer weather returning in the spring of 1855, fighting renewed and spread to the southern and eastern parts of the peninsula. In May and June, the Allies struck at Yalta, Feodosia. They entered the strait of Kerch, bringing widespread destruction to towns along the Azov Sea. The Allies waged economic warfare. Invading soldiers razed homes, and decimated industry. The Russian military, meanwhile, enacted scorched earth policies and destroyed the food it could not relocate. The intensification of violence prompted a new refugee crisis. This chapter gives a depiction of the mercenary aspect of Allied campaigns and offers a rare glimpse into Russian efforts to alleviate the strain of war upon the civilian population. The chapter concludes with an assessment of war damages in the region.
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Rees, Catherine. Masculinity in Crisis: Depictions of Modern Male Trauma in Ireland. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2019.
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Böttcher, Winfried, ed. Europas vergessene Visionäre. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845288352.
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A united Europe needs new visions to take it forward. This is even more relevant in times of acute crises, such as the financial and banking crisis, the eurozone crisis or the refugee crisis, and in times of other events which threaten solidarity in Europe, such as Brexit. In his book ‘Europas vergessene Visionäre’ (Europe’s forgotten Visionaries), Winfried Böttcher reveals how visions once arose. This outstanding work brings together important European thinkers with great visions for Europe who have been unfairly forgotten. In doing so, it builds on Böttcher’s successful standard reference work ‘Klassiker des europäischen Denkens’ (Quintessential Figures in European Thinking). Just like quintessential thinkers, visionaries also contribute to validating the past and the present and to shaping the future. In this book, 25 eminent authors from 18 universities and academic institutions focus on these ‘forgotten’ visionaries for Europe from 13 countries. They reveal to us how different visions can be in depicting the future.
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Shively, Michael D. Self-reported sexual aggression and exposure to sexually explicit depictions. 1986.
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Geismer, Lily. Tightening the Belt. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691157238.003.0009.
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This chapter places the debates over voluntary integration within the context of the Boston busing crisis and the national recession. Explorations of the dramatic events that surrounded the Boston busing crisis have often focused on the ways in which “suburban liberals” passively stood by as working-class whites and blacks in the city endured the burden of school integration. However, the residents along Boston's Route 128 belt were not as removed from the events and issues as those depictions might suggest. The discussion about METCO during this period of turmoil illuminates how the various forces of suburban politics influenced the remedies to school desegregation and racial and economic inequality.
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Stallings, L. H. Marvelous Stank Matter. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039591.003.0005.
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This chapter reviews the importance of sacred subjectivity to various black sexual cultures. In its proposal of nonmonogamy as an alternative practice for funk's genealogy of affection, relationality, and sexuality between human and nonhuman beings, the chapter addresses M. Jacqui Alexander's question about sacred subjectivity. Using queer legal theory, debates about the marriage crisis in black communities, and cultural depictions of nonmonogamy in the science fiction of Octavia Butler and the erotica of Fiona Zedde, the chapter reveals how funk attends to alternative models of family and community to challenge the heteropatriarchal recolonization that happens with capitalism and the Western model of family.
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Bliss, Michael, ed. A Uniquely American Epic. University Press of Kentucky, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178141.001.0001.
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Widely acknowledged as a highly innovative film, Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the movie was considered controversial because of its powerful, graphic, and direct depiction of violence, but it was also praised for its lush photography, intricate camera work, and cutting-edge editing. Peckinpah’s tale of an ill-fated, aging outlaw gang bound by a code of honor is often regarded as one of the most complex and influential Westerns in American cinematic history. The issues dealt with in this groundbreaking film—violence, morality, friendship, and the legacy of American ambition and compromise—are just as relevant today as when the film first debuted. To honor the significance of The Wild Bunch, this collection brings together leading Peckinpah scholars and critics to examine what many consider to be the director’s greatest work. The book’s nine essays explore the function of violence in the film and how its depiction is radically different from what is seen in other movies; the background of the film’s production; the European response to the film’s view of human nature; and the role of Texas/Mexico milieu in the narrative.
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Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Is This What You Mean by Color TV? University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036682.003.0008.
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This chapter examines how entertainment television addressed color-blind equality through an analysis of NBC's Julia, considered the most significant entertainment show of the civil rights years. Created by writer-director Hal Kanter and starring Diahann Carroll, Julia presented viewers with whites only as supporting characters. However, the image Julia provided could only clash uncomfortably with dominant news imagery of exploding ghettos, Black Panthers and other non-nonviolent militants, as well as the generalized chaos and upheaval characterizing the period. This chapter argues that Julia was a fictional vision of the “black and white together” utopia promised in the networks' March on Washington coverage. It also considers how black and white audiences as well as mainstream press critics all made sense of the show in notably different and, at times, contradictory ways. Finally, it discusses the concerns of black viewers and some white critics about Julia, including its depiction of the black family.
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Hughes, Emily. Studying Talk to Her. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906733438.001.0001.
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Talk to Her (2002) is a hugely rich and interesting, though ambiguous, film that met with both popular success and critical acclaim. The film won an Oscar for best original screenplay and has been hailed by some critics as Pedro Almodóvar's masterpiece. Yet like most of Almodóvar's films, little is clear-cut. The characters are complex and our affinity and empathy for them shifts throughout the film. This book provides an in-depth analysis of both the formal elements of the film (its narrative, genre, and auteur study) and the themes and issues it raises, discussing the social context of modern Spain and its old, traditional iconography; shifting attitudes towards gender; and, crucially, the film's uneasy, morally ambiguous depiction of rape and the spectator's reaction to it.
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Rabinowitz, Stanley J., ed. And Then Came Dance. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190943363.001.0001.
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Here for the first time in English are freshly translated essays on famous women in the arts, in contemporary Russian life, and especially in the world of classical dance written by Russia’s foremost ballet critic of his day, Akim Volynsky (1861–1926). Volynsky’s depiction of the body beautiful onstage at St. Petersburg’s storied Maryinsky Theater is preceded by his earlier writings on women in Leonardo da Vinci, Dostoevsky, and Otto Weininger, and on such illustrious female personalities as Zinaida Gippius, Liubov Gurevich, Ida Rubinstein, and Lou Andreas-Salome. Volynsky was a man for whom the realm of art was largely female in form and whose all-encompassing image of woman constituted the crux of his aesthetic contemplation, which crossed over into the personal and libidinal. His career looks ahead to another Petersburg-bred “high priest” of classical dance, George Balanchine; indeed, with their undeniable proclivity toward ballet’s female component, Volynsky’s dance writings, illuminated here by examples of his earlier “gendered” criticism, invite speculation on how truly groundbreaking and forward-looking this understudied critic is.
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Grimm, Joshua. Ex Machina. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348301.001.0001.
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Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of constructing a sentient being. In his feature directorial debut, Alex Garland uses efficient storytelling, a compelling narrative, and heady concepts to create a modern science fiction masterpiece that explores gender, scientific advancement, and the very concept of humanity, all in a compelling, suspenseful film. Artificial intelligence has long been a sci-fi staple, but here, Garland posits what would happen if, for once, humans, rather than AI, were the real villains. In exploring Ex Machina's ideas about consciousness, embodiment, and masculinity, all through the lens of a misogynist mad scientist, Joshua Grimm argues the result is a fascinating, truly unique film that immediately established Garland as a breakout voice in the landscape of science fiction film.
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Clasen, Mathias. Vampire Apocalypse. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190666507.003.0007.
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Richard Matheson’s 1954 horror novel I Am Legend depicts the sole survivor of a vampire pandemic in his attempts to find companionship and meaning in a blasted apocalyptic world. Most literary critics engaging with the novel have interpreted the vampires as social or psychological symbols. They’ve overlooked their literal resonance as disease-bearing, unnatural predators well designed to activate evolved fears of predation and contagion. The chapter argues that the novel’s lasting power comes from the way Matheson taps into basic human anxieties—over predation, isolation, and a total loss of meaning—in his psychologically nuanced depiction of a flawed but sympathetic man’s struggles to survive and find fellow survivors after the apocalypse, and to find meaning in a secular antagonistic world. Matheson adapted the ancient vampire figure in his evocative exploration of one man’s psychological development in response to a hostile and meaningless world.
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Ruffert, Matthias, ed. Europa-Visionen. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845295473.
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This volume of the Humboldt Lectures on Europe serves as a unique contemporary testimony of European integration since the euro crisis. The Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin organizes the Humboldt Lectures on Europe in irregular intervals and has managed to establish these lectures as a valuable and respected forum of discussion on European debates. The present lectures offer a contemporary insight into these debates, depicting the perspectives of European heads of state and government as well as those of high-ranking representatives of the executive, judicial and legislative branches of European states and EU institutions. These lectures contribute to an interdisciplinary discourse in academia, the political arena, and beyond. With contributions by et al Angela Merkel, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Herman van Rompuy, Francois Fillon, Jerzy Buzek, Martin Schulz, Andreas Voßkuhle, Mario Monti, Susanne Baer, Ineta Ziemele, Simon Coveney, Paolo Gentiloni and Olaf Scholz
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Griffiths, Paul. Criminal London. Edited by Malcolm Smuts. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660841.013.33.
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This chapter is divided into two sections: the first tries to trace Shakespeare’s steps and what we know about where he lived to describe and discuss the experience of criminality with its associated dangers and troubles that he might have faced each day of his London life; the second reconstructs the nature of crime more generally at this time to more deeply explore fear and danger in Shakespeare’s city. In doing so the chapter also contrasts sensationalist depictions of a criminal underworld of cut-throats, thieves and prostitutes, with organized gangs and a distinctive cant speech, depicted in some literary works of the period with the more prosaic picture of criminal activity driven mainly by poverty and social dislocation revealed by modern historical scholarship. Stories of crimes culled from London court records do, however, provide a wealth of colourful information about the seamier side of life in the metropolis.
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Gilbert-Santamaria, Donald. The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474458047.001.0001.
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This book posits the Aristotelian-Ciceronian notion of perfect male friendship as an independent poetic force within the development of Spanish literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through a re-examination of Spanish critic Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce’s notion of the “tale of two friends” tradition, the book shows how the poetics of friendship evolves in relation to other key concepts from the period—most notably exemplarity and imitatio—in a series of carefully selected examples from several important genres including the pastoral novel, the picaresque, and the Spanish comedia. Particular attention is given to the trajectory whereby the highly formalized narrativization of the traditional Aristotelian paradigm for friendship gives way to representations of personal intimacy grounded in a recognition of the idiosyncratic particularity of human experience in the world beyond the text. This alternative modality for representing friendship, which encompasses a variety of relationships beyond the Aristotelian paradigm—between women, erstwhile lovers, and pícaros, to take just three examples—reaches its fullest expression in the depiction of the evolving intimacy that grows up between the two unlikely companions, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, whose shared experiences provide the main focus for Cervantes’s most important work.
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Robertson, Sarah. Poverty Politics. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496824325.001.0001.
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Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and at best, regarded as the passive victims of wider, socio-economic policies. Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing pushes beyond these stereotypes and explores the impact of neoliberalism and welfare reform on depictions of poverty. The book examines representations of southern poor whites across various types of literature, including travel-writing, photo-narratives, life-writing, and eco-literature, and reveals a common interest in communitarianism that crosses the boundaries of the US South and regionalism, moving past ideas about the culture of poverty to examine the economics of poverty. Included are critical examinations of the writings of southern writers such as Dorothy Allison, Rick Bragg, Barbara Kingsolver, Tim McLaurin, Toni Morrison, and Ann Pancake. Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing includes critical engagement with identity politics as well as reflecting on issues including Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 financial crisis, and mountaintop removal. It interrogates the presumed opposition between the Global North and the Global South and engages with micro-regions through case studies on Appalachian photo-narratives and eco-literature. Importantly, it focuses not merely on representations of southern poor whites, but also on writing that calls for alternative ways of re-conceptualizing not just the poor, but societal measures of time, value, and worth.