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  • Hope Is of a Different Color

    From the Global South to the Lodz Film School

    Edited by Magda Lipska, Monika Talarczyk ...
    Series series Museum under Construction
    The history of film students from the Global South who studied in Poland during the Cold War.As Poland’s second-largest city, Łódź was a hub for international students who studied in Poland from the mid-1960s to 1989. The Łódź Film School, a member of CILECT since 1955, was a favored destination, with students from Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East accounting for one-third of its ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • The Radicality of Love

    by Srećko Horvat ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions about love?Although all important political and social changes of the 20th century included heated debates on the role of love, it ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Against the Fascist Creep

    by Alexander Reid Ross ...
    US society is notoriously complacent when it comes to the rise of fascist tendencies. When Dylann Roof murdered nine black parishioners in a Charleston church, media emphasis remained superficial. Familiar narratives of insane lone wolves and Confederate flags masked the organizations that inspired Roof's act and their connections to politicians at the local, state, and federal levels throughout ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez

    Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship

    by Paul Hollander ...
    During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and more recently Hugo Chavez, among others. This book seeks to ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Socialist Sixties

    Crossing Borders in the Second World

    Edited by Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker ...
    "A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies." — ChoiceThe 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dialectic of Truth and Fiction in Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing

    by Milo Sweedler, Colman Hogan, Marta Marín-Dòmine ...
    Series Book 1 - CMTS Dialogues
    The Act of Killing is a documentary film on the Indonesian genocide that took place between October 1965 and March 1966, during which time an estimated 500,000 to 2.5 million accused communists, including landless farmers, unionized workers, labour organizers, intellectuals and ethnic Chinese Indonesians, were killed. However, much of the film is dedicated to fictional re-enactments of the 1965–66 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The History of Genocide in Cinema

    Atrocities on Screen

    Edited by Jonathan Friedman, William Hewitt ...
    The organization 'Genocide Watch' estimates that 100 million civilians around the globe have lost their lives as a result of genocide in only the past sixty years. Over the same period, the visual arts in the form of documentary footage has aided international efforts to document genocide and prosecute those responsible, but this book argues that fictional representation occupies an equally ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas

    Edited by Anikó Imre ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas
    A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas showcases twenty-five essays written by established and emerging film scholars that trace the history of Eastern European cinemas and offer an up-to-date assessment of post-socialist film cultures.Showcases critical historical work and up-to-date assessments of post-socialist film culturesFeatures consideration of lesser known areas of study, such as ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • The Spectacular State

    Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan

    by Laura L. Adams, Laura L. Adams ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Laura L. Adams offers unique insight into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era through an exploration of Uzbekistan’s production of national culture in the 1990s. As she explains, after independence the Uzbek government maintained a monopoly over ideology, exploiting the remaining Soviet institutional and cultural legacies. The state expressed national identity through ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Best of Times, Worst of Times

    Memoirs of a Political Education

    by Walter Laqueur ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that shaped his thinking and that have inspired his intellectual work throughout his life. He discusses living ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Memory Laws, Memory Wars

    The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia

    by Nikolay Koposov ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia and exposes their very different purposes in the East and West. In Western Europe, he shows how memory laws were designed to create a common ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dreams of Peace and Freedom

    Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century

    by Professor Jay Winter ...
    In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the major utopians” who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses ... Read more

    $18.99 USD