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Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the US national imagination. Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with the Pacific region from 1898 to the present.

From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking new book reveals, white-power music has served as a key recruiting tool for neo-Nazi and racist hate groups worldwide.

Explores artistic production surrounding the world's most famous public transportation system, from just before its opening in 1904 onwards. Using images, this work offers perspectives on ways in which the subway has been used as a subject about which to make art, as a site within which to make art, and as a canvas upon which to make art.

A collection which brings together a range of comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. This title addresses the question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies.

Introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe - a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger - whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. The council routinely confronts nations over their most culturally sensitive, hot-button issues.

Offers introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be ""in between."" This book begins with an introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. It then addresses a range of topics, including screen stars and depictions of gay subjects.

Discusses the debate on the blacklist era and on aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. Featuring case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, this book offers perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. It includes essays which scrutinize the work of individual practitioners.

Brings critical insights to the reality of porn and what it can tell us about ourselves sexually, culturally, and economically. Divided into two sections, this book covers important debates on the topic and traces the evolution of pornographic film, including comparing its development to that of Hollywood cinema.

Explores the diversity of contemporary Jewish life and the complex struggles within the community - and among Germans in general - over history, responsibility, culture, and identity. This book examines how the development of the European Community, globalization, and the post-9/11 political climate play out in this context.

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim is considered to be a founding father of several academic disciplines: sociology, anthropology, and religious studies. This book demonstrates the ways that Durkheimian perspectives can be applied to contemporary issues including sacrifice, religion, animal rights and terrorism.

Shows how the belief that mothers need to be savvy about the scientific directives has shifted the role of childrearer away from the mother and toward the professional establishment. The author discusses how most women are finding ways to negotiate among the scientific recommendations, their own knowledge, and the reality of their daily lives.

A study of children raised in alternative religious groups such as The Family, Hare Krishna, Wiccans and Pagans, Messianic Communities, and the Rajneesh (Osho) Movement. The essays explore issues including whether child abuse is more likely to occur in unconventional religions.

A book on miscarriage for the woman who has lost at least one pregnancy. Approaching the topic from a reporter's perspective, it takes us on a journey into the laboratories and clinics of researchers at the front, weaving together their findings with portraits of families who have had difficulty bringing a baby to term.

From ""Street Scene"" and ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" to ""Rosemary's Baby"", ""The Warriors"", and ""25th Hour"", this book explores the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger.

Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. This title investigates the visual and literary images of black femininity that occurred between the two world wars. It illuminates the centrality of the mulatta by examining a variety of arguments about race in the Harlem Renaissance.

An autobiography that explains what it means to be a black ""rebel sojourner"" and presents the exposes of the Harlem Renaissance. This book challenges readers to rethink the author's articulation of identity, art, race, and politics and situate these topics in terms of his oeuvre and his literary contemporaries between the World Wars.

Traces how an ever-changing coalition of mental health experts, patients' rights activists, and politicians envisioned the community-based system of psychiatric services. This work shows how policies shifted emphasis from radical reform to incremental change.

For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a ""racial democracy"" - a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. This book examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women, analyzing the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion.

Analyzes the different ways in which organized religion provides immigrants with an arena for mobilization, civic participation, and solidarity. This book explores topics including how non-Western religious groups such as the Vietnamese Caodai are striving for community recognition and addressing problems such as racism, economic issues, and more.

The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that discourse, original essays on important directors, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video.

Demonstrates the wealth of desires woven into the fabric of European history: desires about empire and nation, about self and other, about plenty and dearth. By documenting the diverse meanings of pornography, contributors show how that sexuality became central to the individual, to the nation, and to the transnational character of modern society.

'Being Rita Hayworth' considers the ways in which this actress has been treated by film scholarship over the years to accomplish its own goals, sometimes at her expense.

Offering an analysis of the theoretical assumptions framing the study of violence, this book provides insight into the contradictory implications of the mandatory and pro-arrest policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s. It is for scholars and professionals working in the fields of criminal justice, sociology, women's studies, and social work.

This edition offers research, statistics and stories that document-increased participation in religious groups in the US in the 21st century. New chapters chart the development of African American churches from the early 19th century and the ethnic religious communities of recent immigrants. It revaluates ideas of American religious institutions.

Spanning fields from poststructuralism, feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, the contributors ask - what does ""auteurship"" look like today in light of new critical developments in the film studies?