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December 2004
Ai, Maeda
Text and the city:
essays on Japanese modernity; with an introduction
by James A. Fujii. Duke University Press 2004 391p
il (Asia-Pacific) $89.95; pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8223-3346-5;
0-8223-3334-1
Topics include
Tokyo, maps, penology, film, and popular culture
during the Edo and Meiji periods.
Baseball/literature/culture:
essays, 2002-2003; edited by Peter Carino.
McFarland & Co. 2004 213p pa $35.00
ISBN 0-7864-1851-6;
LC 2004-3163
Essays discuss
baseball films, fatherhood, author Charles Van
Loan, character, and other topics.
Butte, George
I know that you know
that I know: narrating subjects from Moll Flanders
to Marnie. The Ohio State University Press 2004
270p (The theory and interpretative of narrative
series) $44.95
ISBN 0-8142-0945-9;
LC 2003-18678
Great expectations,
The turn of the screw, Tom Jones, and Broadway
Danny Rose are among the films analyzed.
Calder, Robert
L.
Beware the British
serpent: the role of writers in British propaganda
in the United States, 1939-1945. McGill’s-Queen’s
University Press 2004 311p $44.95
ISBN 0-7735-2688-9
Discusses the
nonfiction, fiction, poetry, radio, and film work
of Cecil Roberts, Noel Coward, Vera Brittain, Jan
Struthers, and others.
Cardullo, Bert
In search of cinema:
writings on international film art.
McGill’s-Queen’s University Press 2004 351p
$80.00; pa $22.95
ISBN 0-7735-2706-0;
0-7735-2707-9
Explores cinema from
Iran, Europe and the Americas.
Cate-Arries,
Francis
Spanish culture
behind barbed wire: memory and representation of
the French concentration camps, 1939-1945.
Bucknell University Press 347p $60.00
ISBN 0-8387-5546-1;
LC 2003-19368
Examines cultural
memory of Spanish refugees interned in French
camps through readings of memoirs, poetry, drama,
and fiction produced by the refugees.
Coming to shore:
Northwest Coast ethnology, traditions, and
visions; edited by Marie Mauze, Michael E. Harkin,
and Sergei Kan. University of Nebraska Press 2004
508p $70.00; pa $29.95
ISBN 0-8032-3230-6;
0-8032-8296-6; LC 2004-49849
Land claims,
criminal justice, environmentalism, economic
development, and museum display are among the
topics discussed.
Complex
hunter-gatherers: evolution and organization of
prehistoric communities on the plateau of
Northwestern North America; edited by William C.
Prentiss and Ian Kuijt. University of Utah Press
2004 219p il $55.00
ISBN 0-87480-793-X;
LC 2004-2520
Includes discussions
on materials, households, plant resources, and
pithouse villages.
Contemporary
responses to the Holocaust: edited by Konrad Kwiet
and Jurgen Matthaus. Praeger 2004 287p (Praeger
series on Jewish and Israeli studies) $94.95
ISBN 0-275-97466-9;
LC 2004-11899
Research,
Christian-Jewish relations, film and literature,
and Holocaust museums are among the topics
discussed.
Crawford,
Katherine
Perilous
performances: gender and regency in early modern
France. Harvard Univ. Press 2004 297p il (Harvard
historical studies 145) $49.95
ISBN 0-674-01541-X;
LC 2004-52386
Looks at the
regencies of Catherine de Medici, Marie de Medici,
Anne of Austria, and Philippe d'Orleans.
Explanations:
styles of explanation in science; edited by John
Cornwell. Oxford Univ. Press 2004 238p $39.50
ISBN 0-19-860778-4
Discusses the
universe, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and
other topics.
Fabe, Marilyn
Closely watched
films: an introduction to the art of narrative
film technique. University of California Press
2004 279p il $65.00; pa $24.95
ISBN 0-520-23862-1;
0-520-23891-5; LC 2004-202
Explores Soviet
montage, realism and expressionism in film form,
classical and modern sound theory, the classic
Hollywood film, Italian neorealism, the French New
Wave, auteur theory, modernism and postmodernism
in film, political cinema, feminist film theory
and practice, and narrative experiments in new
digital media.
Hines, John
Voices in the past:
English literature and archaelogy. D.S. Brewer
2004 216p il $75.00
ISBN 0-85991-883-1;
LC 2003-13807
Topics include the
Anglo-Saxon period, the High Middle Ages, the
Renaissance and Restoration, the 1850s, and
American modernism of the 1930s.
I die with my
country: perspectives on the Paraguayan war,
1864-1870; edited by Hendrik Kraay and Thomas L.
Whigham. University of Nebraska Press 2004 il
(Studies in war, society, and the military) $69.95
ISBN 0-8032-2762-0;
LC 2004-7730
Examines military
mobilization, home-front activities, political
culture, war photography, draft resistance, race
issues, state formation, and the role of women in
the war.
Jay, Martin
Songs of experience:
modern American and European variations on a
universal theme. University of California Press
2005 431p $34.95
ISBN 0-520-24272-6;
LC 2004-9708
Philosophers
discussed include Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume,
Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit.
Linguistic
diversity in the South: changing, codes,
practices, and ideology; edited by Margaret
Bender. The University of Georgia Press 2004 137p
(Southern Anthropological Society proceedings no.
37) $39.95; pa $19.95
ISBN 0-8203-2585-6;
0-8203-2586-4; LC 2004-1446
Tension between
linguistic scholarship and linguistic activisms,
discourse genres, language contact, language
ideology, and the relationship between language
shift, language maintenance, and cultural
reproduction are among the issues discussed.
Ochoa, John A.
The uses of failure
in Mexican literature and identity. University of
Texas Press 2004 244p pa $40.00
ISBN 0-292-70573-5;
LC 2004-2879
Among the topics
discussed are the works of Bernal Diaz del
Castillo and Alexander von Humboldt, the
revolution of 1910, and the 1960s.
On anthologies:
politics and pedagogy; edited and with an
introduction by Jeffrey R. Di Leo. University of
Nebraska Press 2004 431p pa $39.95
ISBN 0-8032-6644-8;
LC 2004-6379
Contributors discuss
the intellectual, economic, political,
pedagogical, and creative resonance of
anthologies.
"On the
subject of the feminist business": re-reading
Flannery O’Connor; edited by Teresa Caruso. Lang,
P. 2004 166p pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8204-7149-6;
LC 2003-27813
Works analyzed
include A stroke of good fortune, Good country
people, A view from the woods, and A good man is
hard to find.
Roba, William
German-Iowan
studies: selected essays. Lang, P. 2004 132p (New
German-American studies v. 28) $54.95
ISBN 0-8204-5287-4;
LC 2003-27710
Includes discussions
of Buffalo Bill Cody, Henry Vollmer, Dr. August
Richter, and the antiwar movement of 1914-1918.
Television after
TV: essays on a medium in transition; edited by
Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson. Duke Univ. Press 2004
465p (Console-ing passions) pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8223-3393-7;
LC 2004-6835
Essays explore
contemporary programming and advertising
strategies, the use of television and the Internet
among diasporic and minority populations, the
innovation of new technologies like tivo, and the
rise of program forms from reality tv to lifestyle
programs.
Wallace, Anthony
F. C.
Modernity and mind:
essays on culture change, volume 2; edited by
Robert S. Grumet. University of Nebraska 2004 276p
$ 60.00; pa $29.95
ISBN 0-8032-9836-6;
0-8032-9839-0; LC 2003-4579
Looks at such topics
as revolutionary changes in labor, technology,
society, the impact of the Industrial Revolution
on coal-mining communities in Pennsylvania, and
nuclear power plants.
Wallace,
Michelle
Dark designs and
visual culture. Duke Univ. Press 2004 511p il
$84.95; pa $23.95
ISBN 0-8223-3413-5;
0-8223-3427-5; LC 2004-11108
Covers such topics
as mass culture and popular journalism, New York
postmodernism, multiculturalism, and African
American poststructuralism.
Wyrick, Jed
The ascension of
authorship: attribution and canon formation in
Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian traditions.
Harvard Univ. Press 2004 508p (Harvard studies in
comparative literature) $45.00; pa $27.50
ISBN 0-674-01661-0;
0-674-01662-9; LC 2004-111129
Explores the
testimony of Josephus on the succession of
prophetic scribes, the Greek scholarly methodology
that questioned traditional connections between
names and texts, the fusion of Jewish and
Hellenistic approaches toward attribution that
helped lead to St. Augustine's reinvention of the
writer of scripture as an author whose texts were
governed by both divine will and human intent.
Zaho, Margaret
Ann
Imago triumphalis:
the function and significance of triumphal imagery
for Italian rulers. Lang, P. 2004 143p
(Renaissance and Baroque: studies and texts v. 31)
$55.95
ISBN 0-8204-6235-7;
LC 2002-151379
Discusses the
significance of the Roman triumph, the triumph in
literature and art, the personalization of the
antique triumph, and the Montefeltro, Malatesta
and d’Este families.
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