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Filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture. This collection offers coverage of Sayles's craft and content, with a variety of critical methods to explore the scope of his work. The essays give an understanding of his individual films and of his place in American cinema.

Pointing to an early instance in Hebrew literary history, this work takes its title from a biblical episode in which a daughter seizes control of a paternal spiritual legacy and makes it her own.

In ""A Hanging in Detroit"" David G. Chardavoyne evokes not only the crime, trial, and execution of Simmons, but also the setting and players of the drama, social and legal customs of the times, and the controversy that arose because of the affair.

In this first-hand account of his native Bladenboro, George G. Suggs seeks to capture the world of a thriving cotton mill town where the company was dominant but the workers had forged a strong community. Here the focus is on the workers - their interests, personalities and values.

In the 1970s, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks about fairy tales and the words ""happily ever after."" After three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales.

Providing both theory and praxis, this volume explains how to write humour, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. It includes the history and cultural background of each major genre, followed by an array of writing exercises and examples.

This is an examination of memoirs written after 1945 by Jewish Austrians mourning the loss of their Heimat (home/homeland). The author uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context.

The author recounts his life as an African-American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician and the first black elected to a statewide office. He went on to become the first black vice president and general counsel to General Motors.

The eight essays in this volume consider questions concerning spatial transformations in and around Weimar cinema. They analyse the periphery - the other spaces that are implicated, if not present, in the films themselves.

Because of the increasing influence of Hip hop music and culture, it is important to address Hip hop and African American vernacular as rhetoric worthy of serious scrutiny. Kermit E. Campbell not only insists on this worthiness but also investigates the role that African American vernacular plays in giving a voice to America's marginalized.

This is the memoir of Nanda Herbermann, a German Catholic writer and editor who was arrested and deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp after being accused of collaboration. An introduction placing her work within current debates about gender and the Holocaust is included.

Throughout the 19th and early-20th centuries, schooner trade was vital to the development of the Great Lakes region. This study tells the stories of the crews that sailed the schooners, their labour issues and strikes, the role of the schooner in the maritime economy and the roots of its demise.

An examination of the benefits and consequences to cities when companies relocate to the suburbs. Theoretic models of a manufacturing plant and a business services office in the Chicago area illustrate such phenomena as suburban wealth creation, increased traffic congestion and housing abandonment.

The values that shape economic development policies are often not plainly expressed. This study shows how nontraditional evaluation methods can limit the values that inform public policy and determine whether those values and the policies are in the best interests of the community that adopts them.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1985) was an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose. This work studies the humour embedded in the author. The author aims to show how Borges was concerned with making the humour in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line.

Organized by themes of childhood, marriage, motherhood, immigration and old age, this study provides an analysis of how four Tunisian-Israeli women tell the stories of their lives and takes a look at the implications for our own understanding of stories and the behaviour of communication.

Formed in 1901 by US Steel Corporation, the Pittsburgh Steamship Company became the largest fleet in Great Lakes shipping and the American steel industry. This work tells its story: the ships, the men who sailed them, and the conditions that shaped their times.

Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. This collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews and essays brings together the work of 25 contributors to paint a colourful portrait of Detroit's Arab community.

This study of German Jewry's contribution to Jewish and German culture.

From 1870 to 1910, the prosperity of the copper and iron mining, lumbering and shipping industries of the Lake Superior region created a demand for more substantial buildings. This book examines the region as a built environment and the efforts of architects and builders to use local red sandstone.

This collection of essays is arranged around the themes of organizing, reaching out, and self-transformation, seeking to demonstrate the interconnection of the concepts. It examines prospects for growth and considers the current environment for organizing departures from past practices.