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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “joseph v giunta”
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  • Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

    by Debbie Olson, Joseph V. Giunta, Cory Jobb, Cijo Joy, Suniti Madaan, Elaine Morton, Denis Newiak, Nick Petrov, Matthew Smith, Monica Sousa0, Ingrid E. Castro1 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films

    by Kellie Deys, Aaron Clayton, Ethan Faust, Farisa Khalid, Christopher Maiytt, Susan Ray, Francine Rochford, Joseph V. Giunta, Denise F. Parrillo0, Denise A. Ayo1, Vincent A. Lankewish2 ...
    Series series Studies in Disney and Culture
    Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films contributes to an essential, ongoing conversation about how power dynamics are questioned, reinforced, and disrupted in the stories Disney tells. Whether these films challenge or perpetuate traditional structures (or do both), their considerable influence warrants careful examination. This collection addresses the vast reach of the Disneyverse, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • New Directions in Childhood Studies

    Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century

    by James M. Curtis, Kirsten Bilger, Sumaria Butt, Cara Byrne, Michael G. Cornelius, S. Leigh Ann Cowan, Jamie M. Fine, Joseph V. Giunta, Kristin Kondrlik, Imogen Nutting0, Ryan Twomey1, Meghan Whitfield2, Allyson Wierenga3 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

    Travel, Technology, Time

    by Jessica Clark, Kip Kline, Kwasu David Tembo, Gary Westfahl, Ingrid E. Castro, Muireann B. Crowley, Joseph Giunta, Erin Kenny, Jessica Kenty-Drane0, Megan McDonough1, Joaquin Muñoz2, Stephanie Thompson3 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Embroidered Stories

    Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora

    Edited by Edvige Giunta, Joseph Sciorra ...
    For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Secrets of Rome

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  • Watching Vesuvius

    A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

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    Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists began to make pilgrimages to Vesuvius during the early Renaissance to experience its beauty and ... Read more

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  • Cake Craft Made Easy

    Step-by-Step Sugarcraft Techniques for 16 Vintage-Inspired Cakes

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    The Man and the Myths

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  • The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity

    by John Moorhead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall of the Roman Empire, these centuries have come to be seen as a time of immense creativity and significance in western history. Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity places the history of the papacy in a broader context, by comparing Rome ... Read more

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