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    Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color

    Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical ... Read more

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    What separates The Insider’s Secrets to Getting Your School Leadership Job from other books on this topic is that the author is the ultimate insider. Dr. Laurence Aronstein knows how the hiring process works from the inside. He vividly and simply de-mystifies the inner dynamics of the job search process in schools. As an experienced one-on-one coach, Larry’s strategies are practical, teachable, ... Read more

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    As HIV/AIDS continue to plague societies around the world, more and more social workers encounter HIV-infected individuals and their families and friends who are searching for help and support. In HIV and Social Work: A Practitioner's Guide, experienced social workers share their practice wisdom, knowledge, and skills on a broad range of issues. Their words of wisdom will give you the willingness ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages

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    How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders, from England to France and India to China, this book uniquely examines the tales told, translated, adapted and circulated during the period known as the Middle Ages.Scholars in history, ... Read more

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  • The Road to Wicked

    The Marketing and Consumption of Oz from L. Frank Baum to Broadway

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Road to Wicked examines the long life of the Oz myth. It is both a study in cultural sustainability— the capacity of artists, narratives, art forms, and genres to remain viable over time—and an examination of the marketing machinery and consumption patterns that make such sustainability possible. Drawing on the fields of macromarketing, consumer behavior, literary and cultural studies, and ... Read more

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  • The United States of Medievalism

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    The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. ... Read more

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  • The Disney Middle Ages

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    Edited by T. Pugh, S. Aronstein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past for much of the contemporary Western (and increasingly Eastern) imagination. The essayists of The Disney Middle Ages explore Disney's mediation and re-creation of a fairy-tale and fantasy past, not to lament its exploitation of the middle ages for ... Read more

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