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Björkin, Mats. Postwar Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984929.

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During the 1950s, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and budgetary principles as well as theories of information, communication, marketing, public relations, and organization were discussed at conferences, seminars, and courses, and in articles and books. At the same time, new technologies changed corporate communication, from a loose-leaf accounting system to mechanical and electronic business machines, from written texts and oral presentations to slide shows, a

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Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene, and Ann Rigney. The Life of Texts. Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720830.

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This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reproduced and passed on to others in the form of new editions, in adaptations to film and theatre, and, last

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Chattopadhyay, Budhaditya. Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463724739.

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This book is the first ever systematic attempt to study film sound in the Indian subcontinent by artistic research. The book aims to fill the scholarly void on the issues of sound and listening in the Global Souths’ cultures. It develops a comprehensive understanding of the unique sound world of Indian film and audiovisual media through the examination of historical developments of sound from early optical recordings to contemporary digital audio technologies. The book is enriched with a practice-based methodology informed by the author’s own practice and based on extensive conversations with

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Malzkuhn, Matt, and Ted Supalla. Home Movies Hardly Silent. Oxford University PressNew York, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663172.001.0001.

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Abstract This seminal book on Deaf-made home movies takes readers on a journey through the first fifty years of filmmaking (1925–1970s). It will show how the American Deaf community utilized silent film technology while overcoming its inherent spoken communication barrier through sign language. In this way, a wide range of cultural and literary content was invoked, illustrating the integrated values of both a minority community and the larger society in which they lived. Home movies and the visual nature of emerging cinema technology of the time enabled Deaf people, unlike those outside of the

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Gorfinkel, Elena. Wanda. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839023071.

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Actor-turned-writer/director Barbara Loden's only feature film,Wanda(1970), tells the story of an alienated working-class woman, Wanda Goronski (played by Loden), who abandons her life as a coal miner’s wife and mother, electing instead to drift. Bracing in its realist texture and proto-feminist in its sensibility, it received critical acclaim upon release, winning the Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970. Today,Wandais considered one of the most notable films made by a woman director and a core work of American independent cinema. Elena Gorfinkel's study of this singular film tr

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Frisch, Michael, and Douglas Lambert. Case Study: Between the Raw and the Cooked in Oral History: Notes from the Kitchen. Edited by Donald A. Ritchie. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195339550.013.0024.

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For a long time, oral history documents have been encountered and understood in two polar dimensions, not inaccurately described as “raw” and “cooked.” Considering oral history as primary source material, many discussions focus on the conducting, collecting, preserving, transcribing, and organizing of interviews as the basic “stuff” of work in the field. Alternatively, oral history has been often been approached from the vantage of its use—as selectively “cooked” and presented as History—in or as an exhibit, a film, a book, an article, a website, a text sidebar, and so on. These dimensions are

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Savolainen, Ulla, and Riikka Taavetti, eds. Muistitietotutkimuksen paikka. Teoriat, käytännöt ja muutos. SKS Finnish Literature Society, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21435/skst.1478.

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The Place of Research on Memory-Based Knowledge. Theories, Practices and Change The volume is a comprehensive handbook of oral history and memory studies in Finland. The Finnish research field has originally emerged at the collaborative intersection of history, folklore studies, and ethnology. Since then, this field has developed into vibrant multi- and cross-disciplinary arena characterized by a strong focus on methodological issues related to memory in culture and theoretical engagement with studies on narration and processes of remembering. The chapters of the book explore the perspectives

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Bouamra, Faiza, ed. Abstracts of 1st International Conference on Computational & Applied Physics. AIJR Publisher, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/abstracts.122.

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This book contains the abstracts of the papers presented at the International Conference on Computational & Applied Physics (ICCAP’2021) Organized by the Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films Laboratory (LASICOM), Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University Saad Dahleb Blida 1, Algeria, held on 26–28 September 2021. The Conference had a variety of Plenary Lectures, Oral sessions, and E-Poster Presentations.

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Bell, Melanie. Movie Workers. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043871.001.0001.

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After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, laboring in positions from animation artist to negative cutter to costume designer. This book maps the work of these women decade by decade, examining their far-ranging economic and creative contributions against the backdrop of the discrimination that constrained their careers. The author's use of oral histories and trade union records presents a vivid counter-narrative to film history, one that focuses not only on women in a male-dominated business, but on the innumerable types

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Xiao, Ying. China in the Mix. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496812605.001.0001.

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Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with an original, pioneering study of the connections and intersections of film, media, music, and popular culture in contemporary China under postsocialist reform, capitalist globalization, and hybridization. It explores fascinating topics, including appropriations of popular folklore in the Chinese new wave of the 1980s; Chinese rock ’n’ roll and youth cinema in fin de siècle China; the political-economi

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Adleyba, Dzhulyetta. The stylistic and poetical-compositional system of a fairy tale. Volume 1 : Oral stylistic foundations of a fairy tale. Experimental study on the Abkhaz material. LLC MAKS Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m1473.978-5-317-06459-4_v1.

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In the present edition “The stylistic and poetical-compositional system of a fairy tale” in 2 volumes, the author's works in the field of the study of the stylistic system of a fairy tale, carried out within the framework of an experimental direction in folklore studies, are combined. The study of the problem in this direction was undertaken by the author on the initiative of the outstanding scientist V.M. Gatsak, Doctor of Philology, Corresponding Member RAS, and was conducted over a number of years. The monograph “Oral stylistic foundations of a fairy tale. Experimental study on the abkhaz m

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Basinger, Jeanine, and Sam Wasson. Hollywood. Faber & Faber Limited, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780571383351.

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Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it – from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and beyond, including directors, writers, producers, editors, designers of sets and costumes. As such, the authenticity of the text is irrefutable. The material in the book – gathered over the decades by the American Film Institute – has never been published be

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Graves, Andrew. Prevenge. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800855939.001.0001.

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The purpose of this book is to examine the marrying together of children, parental anxiety and the role of mother in the twenty-first century genre film. It will also explore the often played out gimmick of pregnancy as ‘body horror’. Prevenge provides an excellent conduit to explore these issues and to make a study of such offerings, the female function in horror cinema and the uneasy social commentaries which ensue. Placing this and other work within a societal and a historical context will provide the backbone of this text. It will explore Prevenge’s inception, narrative development, recept

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Masiola, Rosanna. Interjections, Translation, and Translanguaging. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666998320.

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This book is about interjections and their transcultural issues. Challenging the marginalization of the past, the ubiquity of interjections and translational practices are presented in their multilingual and cross-cultural aspects. The survey widens the field of inquiry to a multi-genre and context-based perspective. The quanti-qualitative corpus has been processed on the base of topics of relevance and thematization. The range of examples varies from adaptation of novels into films, from Shakespeare, from Zulu oral epics to opera, from children’s narratives to cartoons, from migration literat

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Galt, Frances. Women's Activism Behind the Screens. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529206296.001.0001.

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This book contributes to important discussions on gender inequality in the present-day film and television industries and labour movement through an historical analysis of women workers and their trade union in the British film and television industries from 1933 to 2017. This book concentrates on the three iterations of the technicians’ union: the Association of Cine-Technicians (ACT) (1933-56), the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT) (1957-91), and the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) (1991-2017). Drawing on previously un

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Tiwary, Ishita. Video Culture in India. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198913252.001.0001.

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Abstract This book narrates the history of video technology in India as it made its entry in the 1980s, along with its production and reception practices. Each chapter examines forms that arose with the arrival of video. Specifically, it looks at the widespread explosion of the marriage video, the little-known history of the video film, the intensity associated with the video news magazine, and the explosive imagination attached to the religious video. It focuses on the analog period, showing it as an important inflection point for current debates over new and digital media. Video Culture in I

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Green, Thomas A. African American Folktales. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400607660.

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African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales. Written for students and general readers, this volume gathers a sampling of the most important African American folktales. Included are nearly 50 tales grouped in thematic chapters on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale begins with an introductory headnote, and the book closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students learning about literature and language will gain a greater understanding of African American oral traditions, while social studies students will lea

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Walsh, Richard A. Smoothing out the Ups and Downs. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190607555.003.0001.

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The progressive loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons with advancing disease exposes the trough between every dose of levodopa in Parkinson’s disease. This is due to the combination of a loss of native dopamine production to fill in this interdose interval and a reduction in dopaminergic terminals to take up and release dopamine long beyond its short plasma half-life. The clinical result is wearing off—an awareness in patients of returning symptomatology while waiting for their next dose. Where consistent and impacting negatively on function on any level, there are a number of initial ora

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Luo, Liang. The White Snake in Hong Kong Horror Cinema: from Horrific Tales to Crowd Pleasers. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424592.003.0003.

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Considered one of the four legends in the Chinese oral tradition, the legend of the White Snake and its theatrical and popular cultural metamorphoses played an important role in the pre-cinematic origins of Hong Kong horror cinema. This chapter surveys the changing representation of gender and horror in a series of films based on the White Snake legend from the 1920s to the 1970s. Centred on a very horrific concept (a monstrous snake disguised as a beauty and married to a human male), these films nonetheless enrich or even challenge our understanding of the genre of horror cinema in their serv

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Poeuv, Socheata. How You Understand Your Story. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.27.

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This chapter argues that Cambodian and Cambodian American survivors of genocide avoid telling and documenting their personal stories of trauma because the rendering of these stories complicates the community’s understanding of morality. This is in part because the circumstances of the Khmer Rouge genocide were such that no clear “other” enemy emerged—a genocide perpetrated by and on Cambodians. By speaking out and telling their stories through oral histories, films, books, etc., Cambodians can implicate themselves, evoking shame and guilt in addition to trauma. The author examines and compares

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Brown, Mary Ellen, and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. ABC-CLIO, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400652097.

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This work is an award winning compendium of authors, concepts, motifs, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world. Long before the written word existed, humans expressed themselves by telling stories. Handed down through centuries, these stories were woven into the tapestry of everyday life. For close to three centuries, folklore has inspired adaptations to film, operas, ballets, short stories, novels, and poetry. Its no surprise, then, that many folklore scholars consider folklore as original literature—existing before written litera

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Regev, Ronny. Working in Hollywood. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636504.001.0001.

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A history of the Hollywood film industry as a modern system of labor, this book reveals an important untold story of an influential twentieth-century workplace. Ronny Regev argues that the Hollywood studio system institutionalized creative labor by systemizing and standardizing the work of actors, directors, writers, and cinematographers, meshing artistic sensibilities with the efficiency-minded rationale of industrial capitalism. The employees of the studios emerged as a new class: they were wage laborers with enormous salaries, artists subjected to budgets and supervision, stars bound by con

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Stead, Lisa. Reframing Vivien Leigh. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190906504.001.0001.

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Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a fresh new look at one of the twentieth century’s most iconic stars. Focusing on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject, the book draws upon original oral history work with curators, archivists, and fan collectives and extensive research within a network of official and unofficial archives around the world to produce alternative stories about her place within film history. The study examines an intriguing variety of historical correspondence, costume, scripts, photography, props, and memorabilia in order to reframe the dominant narratives that have surround

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Nash, Stephen E. “A Stone Lives On”: Vasily Konovalenko’s Gem Carving Sculptures at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.55485/xrlj4270.

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The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) has on display 20 wonderful, whimsical gem-carving sculptures by Russian master artist Vasily Konovalenko. To date, very little has been published on the artist or his work, particularly in English. Since 2009, DMNS curator of archaeology Steve Nash and photographer Rick Wicker have been working to fill that gap in our knowledge. They have traveled the world to photograph and fully document the Konovalenko gem-carving sculptures. As of late 2014, they have examined and documented more than 95% of the known pieces, totaling more than 70 sculpture

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Sandler, Willeke. Seeing the Colonies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190697907.003.0008.

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This chapter examines colonialists’ use of visual culture to develop metropolitan Germans’ identification with the distant colonial territories. Colonialists mobilized a variety of visual forms, including posters and photography, to reach Germans who had seemed unresponsive to their written and oral propaganda. These images, which colonialists believed had a unique power to transcend viewers’ critical distance, would provide an “experience” of the colonies. Broadly speaking, colonialist visual culture focused on three themes: the creation of a German Heimat in the African landscape, the herois

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Rasor, Eugene L., ed. Southwest Pacific Campaign, 1941-1945. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216016984.

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Providing comprehensive coverage of the literature on the Southwest Pacific Campaign of World War II, this book includes both a historiographical narrative and an annotated bibliography of over 1500 entries. Part I, the historiographical narrative, includes a general survey and review of the works listed in Part II, the annotated bibliography. The historiographical survey features critical analysis and an evaluation of the literature, makes an effort to place each work in context, and also points to gaps in the literature. The bibliography section includes descriptive and evaluative annotation

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Björkin, Mats. Postwar Industrial Media Culture in Sweden 1945-1960. Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789048561865.

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During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and budgetary principles as well as theories of information, communication, marketing, public relations, and organization were discussed at conferences and seminars and in courses, articles, and books. At the same time, new technologies were introduced that changed corporate communication, from loose-leaf accounting systems to mechanical and electronic business machines, from written texts and oral pr

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Pollin-Galay, Hannah. Ecologies of Witnessing. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300226041.001.0001.

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This book reassesses contemporary Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the remembrances of Holocaust victims who remained in Lithuania with those who resettled in Israel and North America after World War II, the analysis reveals meaningful differences based on where they chose to live out their postwar lives and whether their language of testimony was Yiddish, English, or Hebrew. The differences between their testimonies relate to notions of love,

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Ritchie, Donald A., Terry L. Birdwhistell, and Richard Norton Smith. Washington's Iron Butterfly. University Press of Kentucky, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182261.001.0001.

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Had Elizabeth "Bess" Clements Abell (1933–2020) been a boy, she would likely have become a politician like her father, Earle C. Clements. Effectively barred from office because of her gender, she forged her own path by helping family friends Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Abell's Secret Service code name, "Iron Butterfly," exemplified her graceful but firm management of social life in the Johnson White House. After Johnson's administration ended, she maintained her importance in Washington, DC, serving as chief of staff to Joan Mondale and cofounding a public relations company. Donald A. Ritchi

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Sosenski, Susana. The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350431393.

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Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico.This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing on children’s special positions within Mexican society rather than criminal acts or the implementation of the law, Sosenski links social and cultural history, the history of crime and fear, the application of justice and the media’s role, childhood and the city to paint a multi-dimensional picture of child abduction and its causes. Exploring the

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Pinsker, Sanford, and Ann Pinsker. Understanding The Catcher in the Rye. Greenwood, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216029847.

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This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading ofThe Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has become an important rite of passage for many young adults. In addition to a literary analysis, this casebook acquaints students with the larger world in which Holden Caulfield moves: Hollywood films, Broadway plays, and jazz musicians. It also presents a detailed account of the censorship challenges to the novel, and provides primary documents on child development and psychology that illuminate Holden's contradictory behavior. Each chapter contain

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Sanz, Arturo Sánchez, ed. Amazons in the Digital Era. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350462205.

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For more than 3,000 years, the Amazons have been a recognised symbol that transcends mythology and has influenced history itself. The image of the powerful warrior woman who defied the established patriarchal order proved so compelling that it became permanently enshrined in the collective imagination—first through oral tradition and later through texts and images. The contributions in this volume explore how this image has endured through the lens of classical reception. From Wonder Woman to the war in Ukraine, and across diverse genres such as video games, fashion, warfare and documentary fi

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Rubio, Philip F. Undelivered. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655468.001.0001.

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For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal "wildcat" strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions. Using archives, peri

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Sayigh, Rosemary, ed. Becoming Pro-Palestinian. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755692125.

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This book brings together testimonials from people of different nationalities and professions who are ‘pro-Palestinian’, whether as scholars, film-makers, artists, musicians, activists, or NGO workers. Using what oral historians call the ‘focused life history’, renowned scholar, Rosemary Sayigh, invites her contributors to describe the experiences, events, motives and feelings that led them to support the Palestinian cause. The book is the first of its kind in Palestiniography and includes voices from countries across the world. A chapter is dedicated to each country and contributors are asked

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Fixico, Donald L., ed. Indian Treaties in the United States. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400669668.

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This book examines the treaties that promised self-government, financial assistance, cultural protections, and land to the more than 565 tribes of North America (including Alaska, Hawaii, and Canada). Prior to contact with Europeans and, later, Americans, American Indian treaties assumed unique dimensions, often involving lengthy ceremonial meetings during which gifts were exchanged. Europeans and Americans would irrevocably alter the ways in which treaties were negotiated: for example, treaties no longer constituted oral agreements but rather written documents, though both parties generally l

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Klapper, Melissa R. Ballet Class. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908683.001.0001.

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Surveying American ballet in 1913, Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. A century later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies across the United States; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; nail polish companies market colors like “Ballet Slippers”; and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet c

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Thomas, Marcel. Local Lives, Parallel Histories. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856146.001.0001.

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The division of Germany separated a nation, divided communities, and inevitably shaped the life histories of those growing up in the socialist dictatorship of the East and the liberal democracy of the West. This peculiarly German experience of the Cold War has so far mostly been seen through the lens of the divided Berlin or other border communities. What has been much less explored, however, is what division meant to the millions of Germans in East and West who lived far away from the Wall and the centres of political power. This book is the first comparative study to examine how villagers in

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Nostbakken, Faith. Understanding Othello. Greenwood, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216029670.

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AlthoughOthellohas been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality. The controversies surrounding conflicting attitudes toward race and religion, love and marriage, and war and the military in Shakespeare's time are reflected in the tragic plot and thematic ambiguities ofOthello.This interdisciplinary casebook is designed to help students and their teachers explore the historical and modern issues related to the play. By combining primary documents with co

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