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As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's broadcast conglomerates, local television news has grown from a curiosity into a powerful journalistic and cultural force. This title explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence.

Explores the intersections of photography, archaeology, and psychoanalysis and their effect on conceptions of the subject and his formation or Bildung in the literature and theory of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title examines works from Thomas Mann, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.

Explores the ""playground"" of children's poetry within the world of contemporary adult poetic discourse. This work considers children's poetry published in the United States from the mid-twentieth century onward, a time when many established adult poets began writing for young audiences.

At a meeting at Herzog August Library in Germany, scholars presented their work on transnational aspects of ""Arabian Nights"". This text collects their papers, whose topics range from history of ""Nights"" manuscripts, to positioning ""Nights"" in modern and postmodern discourse, to international reception of ""Nights"" in written and oral tradition.

The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of ""Oriental"" provenance. This is a guide to the research inspired by this intricate work. Through a selection of 16 essays, it encompasses various research topics, from the ""Nights'"" early history to interpretations of such characters as Sheherazade.

Immediately following the Korean War, South Korea's film industry flourished with local production of high-quality films. This text addresses the appeal of particular film modes and aesthetics, especially melodrama. It examines genre in relation to articulation of nation and constructions of gender.

A study of the sitcom Bewitched that examines its entire run to discover the show's numerous interlocking themes, tensions, and innovations.

Considers how Egyptian Kariates of the San Francisco Bay Area define themselves, within both California culture and Judaism, in terms of the Bible and its bearing on their bodies. This work is useful for students of women's studies, anthropology, minority cultural production, and scholars of religion and Judaism.

Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radical perspective in modern Caribbean politics. This volume brings together a variety of studies on the lives, works, and intellectual and practical contributions of these two political leaders.

British author Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials confronts some of the most urgent dilemmas of our time. These fourteen diverse essays offer literary and historical analysis as well as approaches from such disciplines as theology, storytelling, and linguistics.

Early in the 20th century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers unprotected by the craft unions. This book helps to set the record straight on the Wobblies during this period of labor history.

This title chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping vessels - only one of which survives - during the 1960s. Told from the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and sea.

In this collection of poetry and prose, Michael Delp takes the reader back to nature and details his spiritual awakening within the freshwater of Michigan.

In 1862 at the age of 32, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than 200 letters home to his wife and daughters.

In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society studies the close relationship that social capital shares with local context, social organization, and institutional structure. The book's timely analysis illuminates the institutional barriers currently affecting the mobilization of social capital and establishes a foundation for social and political reform in the future. All components of capital formation-including human, financial, and cultural capital-are identified and considered as they relate to the community development process, as well as how social capital relates to race, class, gender, and religion in urban society.Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society offers vital extensions to existing literature on social capital and allows the reader to consider this topic from multiple perspectives through its broad spectrum of interdisciplinary essays by sociologists, political scientists, and urban planners. The essays discuss important steps in the mobilization of social capital, as well as its role in microfinance programs, community development corporations, homeowners associations, religious institutions, and neighborhood associations. Individual chapters present an array of theoretical arguments, empirical analysis, and applied case studies that are of interest to academics, practitioners, and activists in the community development field.

A drama set in the metaphorical state of Sufferland, whose people are starving and routinely exploited and terrorized by corrupt government officials and multinational oil companies - that is, until a voice erupts and moves the wounded women and youths to rise up and demand justice.

Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881-1983), founder of Reconstructionism, was a pre-eminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi. His life, which he meticulously recorded, embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of the 20th century. This first volume covers his early years as a rabbi.

A detailed account of Adolf Eichmann's trial by the poet and journalist Haim Gouri, who was assigned to cover the event by the Israeli daily newspaper ""Lamerhav"". The trial changed attitudes towarsd the Holocaust and Gouri's reporting was the literary catalyst of this change.

Walter Benjamin is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in 20th-century Western culture. The author of this work shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts, but rather should be understood from his language.

This treatment of Michigan's early military forces includes the names of all known Michiganians who answered the call to arms prior to the Civil War and explains the circumstances of each major conflict.