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Discussions of "committed" documentary by a "committed" historian of film.

Examines the work produced in exile by writers of African descent. The author suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. In this book, he investigates the work of Himes, Cliff, and three other twentieth-century black international writers.

An investigation into Shanghai's rise from peripheral port to urban center. The author examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments.

Looks at the role of right-wing ideologues and the mass media in demonizing urban America. This book documents the scope of these alarmist representations of the city, examines the ideologies that informed them, and exposes the interests they ultimately served.

Discusses how America's image of the Philippines reflects the US inability to see its own imperialism.

Interrogates the intersection of gender and racial subjectivity in American culture.

Offers an exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular culture.

Reveals the complexity of the ties between Hollywood and media. This book looks at the American cinema's imaginative constructions of three electronic media - radio, television, and the Internet - at the times when these media seemed to hold limitless possibilities.

Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.

The first introduction to a key thinker in twentieth-century media philosophy and cultural theory.

How Japan's most canonical postwar writer brought that country's largest social minority into the mainstream.

How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of media-and why it matters.

A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.

The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.

A nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations.

The true meaning of being fashionably late in Henry James's late works.

Studies in the Eighteenth Century Background of Hume's Empiricism was first published in 1930. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.A scholarly review of the influence of contemporary science and thought on the various phases of Hume's philosophy. The chapter headings are as follows: I. Introduction. II. Interpretations of Newtonian Science in the Eighteenth Century. III. Reverberations of the New Science in Philosophy. IV. Hume's Empiricism in Relation to Contemporary Science and Philosophy. V. Empiricism in Morals. VI. Empiricism in Politics. VII. Hume's Historical Writing. Bibliography.