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“laini kavaloski”

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  • Graphic War

    Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

    by Laini Kavaloski ...
    Employing geographical and political structures to her analyses, Laini Kavaloski argues that spatial forms that represent boundaries such as walls, ghettos, and war zones together with the artistic renderings of emotion, gendered experiences, and cultural narratives make visible the consequences of war on bodies and political futures. Representations of Jewish territorial positions are not only ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context

    by Laura Savu Walker, Patrick Crapanzano, Joseph Donica, Joseph George, Kate Hanzalik, Lisa Hoffman-Reyes, Susan Gorman, Laura Inman, Jamila M. Kareem, Laini Kavaloski, Jeremy Killian, Ron Milland, Jenny Heijun Wills ...
    The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context offers a timely contribution to the debates about the good life that surround us every day in the media, politics, the humanities, and social sciences. The authors’ examine the relationship between the good life and the greater good as represented across different genres, media, cultures, and disciplines. This enables them to develop a ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • Critical Theory

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  • A Human Eye

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    by Adrienne Rich ...
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  • The Implicated Subject

    Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

    by Michael Rothberg ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and ... Read more

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  • Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

    Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation

    Edited by Gerd Bayer, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy ...
    In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to ... Read more

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  • Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews

    The Story of an Image

    by Shaina Hammerman ...
    "A valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema." — American Jewish HistoryMotivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography.Although these depictions could ... Read more

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  • The War Complex

    World War II in Our Time

    by Marianna Torgovnick ...
    The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the hold that World War II still has over America's sense of itself. But the selective process of memory has radically shaped our picture of the conflict. Why else, for instance, was a 1995 Smithsonian exhibition on Hiroshima that was to include photographs of the first atomic bomb ... Read more

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  • Refractions of Violence

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  • The Future of Trauma Theory

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    This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections.Part one, History and Culture, begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive mode and explores how these insights might ... Read more

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