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  • What Gender Is, What Gender Does

    by Judith Roof ...
    What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment, more than one gender dynamic is at work in any individual.Roof’s interpretation of genders isn ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Tone

    Writing and the Sound of Feeling

    by Professor Judith Roof ...
    Tone is often decisive in whether we love or dislike a story, novel, or even critical essay. Yet literary critics rarely treat tone as a necessary or important element of literary style or critique. There are surprisingly few analyses of what tone is, how texts produce tone, or the ways tone--as an essential element of narration--contributes to character, story, mood, and voice.Tone's 24 micro ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Reproductions of Reproduction

    by Judith Roof ...
    Reproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Comic Event

    Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present

    by Professor Judith Roof ...
    The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an “event” that triggers, by virtue of a “cut,” an expected/unexpected resolution.Using examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest comic moment-jokes, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

    by Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale, Atia Sattar, Beth A. McCoy, Robin Blyn, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Charles M. Tung, Aaron Jaffe, Grant Farred, Seth Morton, David L. Martin ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lacan and the Posthuman

    Edited by Svitlana Matviyenko, Judith Roof ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinking that is moving from language to matter, from a politics focused on social relations to one organized according to a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond

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  • Metamorphoses

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  • Thinking Through Film

    Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies

    by Damian Cox, Michael Levine ...
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  • Literary Theory For Beginners

    by Mary Klages ...
    Series series For Beginners
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  • Body Drift

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    by Arthur Kroker ...
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