Category - Performing Arts
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolut...
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Dangerous Bodies: New Global Perspectives on Fashion and Transgression
HardcoverOriginal price $89.99 - Original price $89.99Original price $89.99$102.99$102.99 - $102.99Current price $102.99| /This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection is to explore the cultural i...
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Our Country/Whose Country?: Early Westerns and Travel Films as Stories of Settler Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' r...
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Art, Power, and Politics: Political Storytelling in Paintings, Music, and Movies
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Stories matter. They help us digest information, make sense of our world, learn valuable lessons, understand ourselves, store information, find mea...
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Come With Me If You Want to Live: The Future as Foretold in Classic Sci-Fi Films
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, that's because it is. Come With Me If You Want to Live reveals how great science ...
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Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its her...
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Indecent Detroit: Race, Sex, and Censorship in the Motor City
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /While Detroit has been a major focus in urban history, little has been written on censorship in the very city that--due to shifting legalities, the...
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The King of Late Night
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-c...
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Chavez: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Case Study of Politics and the Media
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a powerful film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. It charts the a...
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Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumult...
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The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, Monroe Trotter, a journalist agitator, and D.W. Griffith, a technically brilliant filmmaker, inc...
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