Category - Social Science
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Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapab...
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Gaza on Screen
HardcoverOriginal price $104.95 - Original price $104.95Original price $104.95$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Gaza's long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not ju...
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Gaza on Screen
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Gaza's long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not ju...
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Making Asian American Film and Video: History, Institutions, Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The words "Asian American film" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film fes...
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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture Before World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese American...
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Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema in Colonial West Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Many studies focus on film in Africa. Few, however, study cinema as a leisure activity: one that has influenced several generations and opened up...
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Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers sa...
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Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos...
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Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos...
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Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" o...
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Creolizing the Metropole: Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies th...
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Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotype...
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Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...
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All Kinds of Scary: Diversity in Contemporary Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Horror fictions display a wealth of potential, and appeal to a variety of diverse audiences. However, the trope of "the black man always dies firs...
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Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /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...
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A Critical Companion to Wes Craven
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven's work, including e...
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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jordan Peele’s celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America "Blending race-s...
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The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Countr...
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Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $119.99 - Original price $119.99Original price $119.99$133.99$133.99 - $133.99Current price $133.99| /Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels an...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Celluloid Activist is the biography of gay-rights giant Vito Russo, the man who wrote The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, commonly r...
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Make It Memorable: Writing and Packaging Visual News with Style
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Veteran NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a hands-on approach to the craft ...
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Make It Memorable: Writing and Packaging Visual News with Style
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Veteran NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a hands-on approach to the craft ...
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