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  • Betraying Dignity

    The Toxic Seduction of Social Media, Shaming, and Radicalization

    by Orit Kamir ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    What do medieval knights, suicide bombers and "victimhood culture" have in common? Betraying Dignity argues that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, individuals, political parties and nations around the world are abandoning the dignity-based culture we established in the aftermath of two world wars, less than a century ago. Disappointed or intimidated, many turn their backs on the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Framed

    Women in Law and Film

    by Orit Kamir ...
    Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understanding and judging them. How do social, legal, and cinematic conventions and mechanisms combine to lead us to condemn these women or exonerate them? What is it, exactly, that they teach us to find such women guilty or innocent of, and how do they do so ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Monsters, Law, Crime

    Explorations in Gothic Criminology

    by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart, DW Duke, Cecil Greek, Jonathan Frauley, Steve Greenfield, Marouf Hasian Jr., Orit Kamir, Deborah Landry, John Morton, Matthew Sorrento0, Lucy Williams1, Sandra Walklate2, DJ Williams3, John Edgar Browning4, Barry Godfrey5, Michael Hviid Jacobsen6 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into “monsters” and “monster-talk,” and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Framing Law and Crime

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    by Stefan Machura, Susan Boyd, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Orit Kamir, Peter Robson, Mathieu Deflem, John Denvir, Naomi Mezey, Mark C. Niles, Farah Britto, Anders Petersen, Jon Frauley, Steve Greenfield, Matthew Sorrento, Majid Yar ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    This cutting-edge edited collection brings together 17 scholarly essays on two of cinema and television’s most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with critical analysis, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • How To Be Gay

    by David M. Halperin ...
    A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. The genius of gay culture resides in some of its most despised stereotypes—aestheticism, snobbery, melodrama, glamour, caricatures of women, and obsession with mothers—and in the social meaning of style. ... Read more

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  • Reel to Real

    Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

    by bell hooks ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks – one of America’s most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics – talks back to ... Read more

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  • remembered rapture

    the writer at work

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    “For anyone who writes, or seeks to understand the writing process, or wants to know more about the erudite and passionate mind of bell hooks, this is the book to read.”—The Philadelphia InquirerIn this timeless essay collection on the writing life, award-winning author and renowned thinker bell hooks shares the secrets gleaned from years of facing the blank page, pen in hand.At a time when the ... Read more

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  • Black Looks

    Race and Representation

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  • Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond

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    This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be ... Read more

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  • Feminist Film Theorists

    Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed

    by Shohini Chaudhuri ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood.Examining the new and distinctive approaches of each of these thinkers, this book provides the most detailed account so far of their ideas.It ... Read more

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  • Film Theory Goes to the Movies

    Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film

    Edited by Jim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner ...
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    Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The*Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II,Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and *JungleFever.They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to ... Read more

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