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Describes and examines the attempts of Gush Emunim, a religious nationalistic social movement, to construct Israeli identity, collective memory, and sense of place. This title argues that by constructing the meaning of contested territories as a national homeland, the ideological settlers attempt to redefine Zionism, Israel, and Judaism.

Despite its lack of organization and relatively short life span, the Italian neorealist movement deeply influenced directors and film traditions around the world. This collection examines the impact of Italian neorealism beyond the period of 1945-52, the years conventionally connected to the movement, and beyond the postwar Italian film industry.

The 1915 massacre of the Armenians by the reactionary Ottoman Government foreshadowed a trend of genocide that would characterize much of the 20th century. This compilation of articles, published in US periodicals between 1895 and 1899, offers a window onto the world politics of the time.

Investigates the patriarchal culture that keeps the male body - and especially male genitals - out of sight. This book examines representations of the male body and male sexuality in a variety of settings and through many different lenses. It is useful for scholars of film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies and general readers.

This book aims to give the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema their due. The collection of eighteen essays examines a many films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns.

How do we remember persons, objects, and events? This volume explores the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts. The authors show how memory is shaped, and how it operates in uniting society and creating images, pointing to the relationship between memory and culture.

A collection of essays on Jane Campion, filmmaker. It analyzes Campion's close relationship with literature and argues that the singular vision in her literary adaptations stems from her New Zealand background and her personal mythology.

Bringing together scholarly insights and research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor in Japan and the West and examines the spectrum of Japanese humor, from ancient traditions and surviving rituals of laughter to the norms of joke-telling in conversation in Japan and America.

Angela Carter is known for her literary fairy tales. This is a collection of essays, fiction, personal reminiscence, and interviews from an international group of scholars, artists and novelists, investigating Carter's approaches to the fairy-tale genre.

This is a study of the television programme ""The Simpsons"" which focuses on the show's dual roles as subversive political satire and mainstream mass media hit. It addresses the show's success as a corporate-manufactured show that paraodies the very consumer capitalism it simultaneously promotes.

Presenting one of the most momentous conflicts in the history of Western civilization, this book should allow students to assess the controversial issues on both sides of this historical and political event. The authors provide critical commentary, and place the writings in a historical context.

This collection of revised and new essays explores Jewish women's history. Topics include: portrayals of women in the Hebrew bible; the image and status of women in the diaspora world of late antiquity; and Jewish women in the Middle Ages.

A study of ""Twin Peaks"", the first foray into television for film director David Lynch. It addresses topics which include the series' cult status, its obsession with doubling and its silencing of women. It also analyses the series from feminist, deconstructionist and semiotic perspectives.

In this volume, Julie Klein provides the first comprehensive study of the modern concept of interdisciplinarity, supplementing her discussion with the most complete bibliography yet compiled on the subject.

Highlighting the interaction between myth and artist, word and image, Jacob Nyenhuis presents here a catalogue of the works of British artist Michael Ayrton, one that aims to enlighten Ayrton's British folowing while introducing him to an American audience.

Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans - almost 25 percent of the black population in Harlem in 1920 - and their pivotal role in the literary, cultural, and political events shaping the Harlem Renaissance.

This text shows that the computer revolution of our time can help us revisit Shakespeare's works in their own time and thereby enhance our understanding of them. Kinney proposes a new way of reading the period's texts which helps us see how the plays were interpreted in early modern times.

Israel Zangwill was Anglo Jewry's renowned writer. Uniting Zangwill's three plays and containing an in-depth introduction by the author, this volume includes a biography of Zangwill that pertains to these works and situates them within the Anglo-American theater of the time.

This volume (second of two), maps the historical and cultural contexts of film practices in Latin America. It explores the formation of the New Latin American cinema movement as a comparative national project. Essays are grouped by nation into two regions.

Scholarly writing on Nordic cinema has historically focused on auteurs and has neglected to contextualize contemporary Nordic film within the increasingly global climate of the five Nordic countries. These essays foclus on the globalization of Nordic film, particularly its trend toward transnational production procedures, themes, and actors.

Wilhelm Dilthey's Introduction to the Human Sciences is a pioneering effort to elaborate a general theory of the human sciences, especially history, and to distinguish these sciences radically from the field of natural sciences. Though the "Introduction" was never completed, it remains one of the major statements of the topic.

This work brings together a collection of Yiddish folklore from Poland, between the two world wars. It examines the evolution of Yiddish folklore and its role in creation of Yiddish nationalism, focussing on three important folklore circles, including the Warsaw group.