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This selection of writings offers an overview of thinking on Alfred Hitchcock and his work. The articles span his career and cover a wide range of topics from archaeological investigation to incisive analyses on the films themselves.

Today's children are occupied with activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or are simulations of the earth's natural environment. This text examines the ways in which literature, media, and other cultural forms for young people address nature, place, and ecology.

Contains twenty in-depth studies of prominent New Zealand directors, producers, actors, and cinematographers. This book displays the diversity of filmmaking in New Zealand and highlights the specific industrial, aesthetic, and cultural concerns that have created a film culture of international significance.

In 1831, Father Frederic Baraga went to America from his native Slovenia to take Christianity to the Ottowa and Chippewa Indians. Twenty years later when Baraga heard that he might be named Bishop of Upper Michigan, he began to keep a diary. This text is an English translation of that diary.

A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the 19th century. The book presents the music once heard on the schooners and offers a first hand musical picture of how sailors once lived aboard these ships.

This text is a history of the American city of Detroit. It covers its founding as a French colony, its time as a British fort and an American town. It emphasizes the contributions of Detroit business and industry, particularly the automobile revolution, to America's development.

A study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books. The authors address the philosopher's readers who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of ""The World Viewed"" within the totality of his writings about film.

This collection of ten essays written about Im Kwon-Taek, better known as the father of New Korean cinema, takes a critical look at the situations of filmmakers in South Korea.

This is a rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humour, gender and power in contemporary culture. Here, Joanne R. Gilbert aims to illuminate the social, constructive and cultural implications of power and gender in popular entertainment.

An abbreviated version of this work first published in 1981, and revised and expanded in 1994. The book explains in a rational and empirical context the historical, political, communal, and socioeconomic factors that contributed to the unfolding of this tragedy.

This work examines the historical relationship between American Jewry, the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the ""yishuv"", the Jewish settlement in Palestine. The articles in this book range from Zionist movements in America to Israel's representation in contemporary prayer books.

This title portrays the career of George Edwards, Detroit's visionary police commissioner, whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting, and community policing to Detroit's police department in the early 1960s were met with much controversy within the city's administration.

This text presents the history of the German cinema through close readings of films representing five major periods: Weimar cinema, cinema in the Third Reich, postwar cinema, East German cinema, and the New German cinema.

Kaplan, the founder of the Jewish Reconstructionist movement, here takes the major formulation of his theological approach, ""God as the power that makes for salvation"", and demonstrates how it can be used to invigorate the Jewish religion in a changing world.

In spite of the difficulty of most American avant-garde films, one can read volumes and find almost no mention of how to view these films. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order addresses precisely this question: how-and to what extent-can viewers make sense of American avant-garde films? It is a controversial book that examines the implicit assumptions of traditional scholarship, advocates on alternative to dominant approaches to the avant-garde cinema, and questions some long-standing clichés about the history of the avant-garde.

Five of Hitchcock's most significant films were unavailable to the public for as long as two decades before their release in 1983-84. This highly readable volume collects the most important essays written about Hitchcock and the rereleased films since that time. Covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and theory, these studies demonstrate Hitchcock's centrality to an understanding of how culture shapes film and how film shapes, and even creates culture.

Wings of Gauze is a multidisciplinary anthology of original essays written about the experiences of women of color in the United States - African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and Southeast Asian American. Written by social science and humanities scholars, community activists, and health professionals, the essays illustrate a variety of approaches from a range of academic disciplines, theoretical models, and individual perspectives. Testimony to the many layers of experience by women of color concerning health and illnesses, the essays broaden our understanding of the connections that exist between those experiences and the health issues and cultural standpoints that frame them.With some notable exceptions, recent feminist scholarship about women's health and the history of health care has focused primarily on the experiences of white middle-class women. Literature by health professional about people of color has focused upon illness and perceived deviance from white-defined norms rather than upon the political economy of health and alternative concepts of well-being. It also has focused on men rather than women, and on African Americans to the exclusion of other peoples of color. This collection - the first of its kind - is a shift away from this standard paradigm and instead makes women of color and their perceptions the central reality.The book includes creative writing, participant-observer perspectives, personal narratives, survey studies, and studies based on oral history. Specific health issues, including AIDS, domestic violence, substance abuse, cancer, reproductive health, surgery, sickle cell disease, infectious disease, mental health, and the economic dimensions of physical and psychological health, are addressed. While the focus of the book is on experiences of health and illness and on health policy, there are also essays on the experiences of women of color as health practitioners - ethno-therapists, healers, midwives, health aides, and community social workers.

Presenting an examination of feminist issues in the works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, this text discusses such topics as: obscure points in the life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and the model nun in the religious literature of Colonial Mexico.

Offers a biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals.

In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula. Three distinct periods emerged as the industry evolved. The pine era was a rough pioneering time when trees were felled by axe and floated to ports where logs were loaded on schooners for shipment to large cities. When the bulk of the pine forests had been cut, other entrepreneurs saw opportunity in the unexploited stands of maple and birch and harnessed the railroad to transport logs. Finally, in the pulpwood era, "weed trees," despised by previous loggers, are cut by chain saw, and moved by skidder and truck. Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.

This biography of Walter Benjamin provides an introduction to his thought.

Despite the vicissitudes of their anomalous historical experience, the Jews survive as am identifiable entity. They have withstood one challenge after another - both physical and intellectual - somehow maintaining an historical continuity. How Jewish writers have dealt with this enigma serves as the subject of this volume.With these words from the Preface, Michael A. Meyer characterizes the scope of his Ideas of Jewish History. As the only volume of readings in the area of Jewish historiography and the philosophy of Jewish history, Ideas of Jewish History acquaints the reader with both the universal and the particular challenges inherent in the writing of Jewish history.