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Proposes a different approach to considering cultural problems.

This series of meditations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict argues that it represents a struggle not as much about land and history as about space, time and memory.

The contributors to this work explore the effects of imposed conformity by studying specific instances in which conflict of identity arise. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; and nation building under Francois Mitterand.

The term "utopia" implies both "good place" and "nowhere". The debate over utopian models of society has fallen on all points between these contradictory definitions. This work engages the literary cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the tradition of utopian writing.

Attempts to correct misleading interpretations of literature and culture dominating Latin American studies in North America, by proposing a new historical materialist approach to Latin America texts and cultural practices.

This text explores the ways in which literature functions as a cultural practice, links between death and literature as a field of discourse, and the possibilities of dismantling modes of bodily regulation.

Investigating the link between culture and politics, this text analyzes how notions of patriotism, citizenship, community and family are communicated within specific public and private institutions, and attempts to extend the meaning of pedagogy as a cultural practice.

This study looks at critical theory and practices in Spain in the post-Franco period.

This volume, looks at how feminism and femininity are embedded in a broad spectrum of Italian cultural practices.

An integration of texts from political theory, psychoanalysis, history and literature, this work offers a strong interpretation of the interrelated representation of subjectivity and absolutism on the 17th-century stage.

Explores the tensions and contradictions between ideas of nationalism and internationalism as they played themselves out through the major political thinkers from the early modern period into the 19th century.

Bartkowski uses travel writings, US immigrant autobiographies, and concentration camp memoirs to illustrate how tales of dislocation present readers with a picture of the complex issues surrounding mistaken identities.

As the new millennium approaches, the author contends there is a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the US; which, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. She offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that currently pervades US culture.

Examines the use of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism in the analysis of subaltern writing. Argues that the heterogeneity of dialogic feminism itself constitutes a significant array of discursive resistance to the hegemony of disciplines operative in the metropolitan First World academy.

The Future of an Illusion was first published in 1989. 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.The Future of an Illusion documents the pivotal role Constance Penley has played in the development of feminist film theory. Penley analyzes the primary movements that have shaped the field: the conjunction of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis, and the inherent debates surrounding the politics of women and representation. These debates center on the position of women in the classical Hollywood narrative, the construction of the spectator's desire in pornography and eroticism, and the implicitly male bias in psychoanalytically oriented film theory. Essential to anyone studying the sexual policies of representation, The Future of an Illusion ranges from avant-garde films to video, popular cinema, television, literature, and critical and cultural theory.Constance Penley is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Rochester. A co-editor of the journal Camera Obscura,she is the editor of Feminism and Film Theory.

Social and Political Philosophy was first published in 1982. 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.

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was one of the most innovative and revolutionary thinkers of the twentieth century. Author of more than twenty books on literature, music, and the visual arts, Deleuze published the first volume of his two-volume study of film, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, in 1983 and the second volume, Cinema 2: The Time-Image, in 1985. Since their publication, these books have had a profound impact on the study of film and philosophy. Film, media, and cultural studies scholars still grapple today with how they can most productively incorporate Deleuze''s thought.The first new collection of critical studies on Deleuze''s cinema writings in nearly a decade, Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze''s Film Philosophy provides original essays that evaluate the continuing significance of Deleuze''s film theories, accounting systematically for the ways in which they have influenced the investigation of contemporary visual culture and offering new directions for research.Contributors: Raymond Bellour, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques; Ronald Bogue, U of Georgia; Giuliana Bruno, Harvard U; Ian Buchanan, Cardiff U; James K. Chandler, U of Chicago; Tom Conley, Harvard U; Amy Herzog, CUNY; András Bálint Kovács, Eötvös Loránd U; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U; Timothy Murray, Cornell U; Dorothea Olkowski, U of Colorado; John Rajchman, Columbia U; Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier, U Paris VIII; Garrett Stewart, U of Iowa; Damian Sutton, Glasgow School of Art; Melinda Szaloky, UC Santa Barbara.

The third and final volume in the series of political and social writings of Cornelius Castoriadis, whose thinking distinguishes the Marxist text from communism.

John Updike - American Writers 79 was first published in 1969. 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.