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“jonathan driskell”

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  • The French Screen Goddess

    Film Stardom and the Modern Woman in 1930s France

    by Jonathan Driskell ...
    Many years before Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve rose to fame, the French cinema produced a host of glamorous female stars designed to rival their Hollywood counterparts. Bathed in soft light, discussed adoringly in fan magazines and shown wearing the latest fashions, these 'cinematic stars' emerged in opposition to France's traditional stage-based stardom, while remaining, through the ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • The Malayan Emergency in Film, Literature and Art

    Cultural Memory as Historical Other

    Edited by Jonathan Driskell, Dr Marek W. Rutkowski, Andrew Hock Soon Ng ...
    Examining film, literature and art produced during and after the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought between the Malayan National Liberation Army and the military forces of the British Commonwealth, this collection demonstrates how art functions as a record of cultural memory that both reinforces and challenges official histories. Beyond that, it also brings new understandings of the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Speak Not

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  • Underground Asia

    Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire

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    An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA major historian tells the dramatic and untold story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent.This is the epic tale of how modern Asia emerged out of conflict between imperial powers and a global ... Read more

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  • Oceanic Histories

    Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Series series Cambridge Oceanic Histories
    Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the ... Read more

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  • A Life Beyond Boundaries

    A Memoir

    by Benedict Anderson ...
    An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined CommunitiesBorn in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted ... Read more

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  • The Hakkas of Sarawak

    Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia

    by Kee Howe Yong ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Multilingual Singapore

    Language Policies and Linguistic Realities

    Edited by Ritu Jain ...
    Series series Routledge Multilingual Asia Series
    This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and ... Read more

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  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Continents

    A Critique of Metageography

    by Martin W. Lewis, Kären Wigen ...
    In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and misconceived, the ... Read more

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  • Cold War Reckonings

    Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

    by Jini Kim Watson ...
    Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHow did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism ... Read more

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