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Hollywood in San Francisco: Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.
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Slavery and Utopia: The Wars and Dreams of an Amazonian World Transformer (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Through the career of a charismatic indigenous leader, this book chronicles the struggles surrounding indigenous slavery in Peruvian Amazonia from the collapse of the rubber economy to the beginnings of mass colonization in the region.
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Delirious Consumption: Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Looking at several of the leading figures in postwar Latin American letters and art, this volume offers an enlarged understanding of the way art is produced in, and responds to, the age of consumer culture.
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Evolving Images: Jewish Latin American Cinema (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America.
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From Strangers to Neighbors: Post-Disaster Resettlement and Community Building in Honduras (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presenting case studies of two Honduran resettlements that have experienced very different outcomes, this book identifies the type and quality of support that resettlements need in order to become successful communities.
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Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With chapters on Lead Belly, Thomas Hart Benton, John Huston, Mae West, and Sterling Brown, this innovative book presents a new argument for the centrality of African American folklore as a source of cultural expression in the 1930s.
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Theatre for Youth II: More Plays with Mature Themes (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This substantially updated edition of the classic anthology of plays for young audiences presents contemporary plays that treat more mature, realistic themes while still encouraging youth to embrace life and follow their dreams.
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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on archival research, this illuminating study shows how residents of all ethnicities in three colonial boomtowns used festivals to redefine wealth and present themselves as more than subjects of European power.
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New Maricon Cinema: Outing Latin American Film (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presenting a comprehensive overview of recent queer cinema in Latin America, this pathfinding volume identifies a new vein of filmmaking that promotes affective relationships between viewers and homo/trans/intersexed characters.
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Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The first study of its kind, Directed by God analyzes several representations of Jewish religiosity in Israeli film and television that challenge secular Zionism in contemporary Israeli society.
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Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Practicing Transnationalism explores the challenges of teaching American studies in the Middle East during a time of tension and conflict between the United States and the region.
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The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and analytical plan drawings of urban cores, this is the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico
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