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"A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots"?
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 39.95This book offers a history of Japanese television audiences and the popular media culture that television helped to spawn. In a comparatively short period, the television industry helped to reconstruct not only postwar Japanese popular culture, but also the Japanese social and political landscape. During the early years of television, Japanese of all... more...
"Cashville" - Dilution of Original Country Music Identity through Increasing Commercialization
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 37.73Hauptbeschreibung Where I come from, it's cornbread and chicken. This line from Alan Jackson's country hit defines the genre as the music of the American South. All its ambiguity set aside, the South stands proudly for its hospitality, politeness, sense of place and community. Family and religion are traditionally more important down there than in... more...
'Dear BBC'
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 37.00Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6 and 12, 'Dear BBC' discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children's relationship with the media, especially television drama. This engaging and accessible book will appeal to a broad audience. more...
"Der Letzte der Ungerechten"
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 22.64Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt Vorwort 7 Ronny Loewy Die Shoah-Outtakes 11 Benjamin Murmelstein Das Ende von Theresienstadt Stellungnahme eines Beteiligten 15 "Wenn Sie das demokratisch nennen, dann bin ich gerne ein Faschist" Ein Auszug aus dem Interview von Claude Lanzmann mit Benjamin Murmelstein27 Doron Rabinovici Benjamin Murmelstein, "der Letzte... more...
"Do You Know...?"
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 18.00Every night, somewhere in the world, three or four musicians will climb on stage together. Whether the gig is at a jazz club, a bar, or a bar mitzvah, the performance never begins with a note, but with a question. The trumpet player might turn to the bassist and ask, “Do you know ‘Body and Soul’?”—and from there the... more...
"Es ist ein Unmensch keines Mitleids fähig"
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 8.61Hauptbeschreibung Lange Zeit fand der Antisemitismusvorwurf gegen Shakespeares "Kaufmann von Venedig" wenig Beachtung: Er wurde übersehen, so lange antijüdische Ressentiments zum gesellschaftlichen Konsens gehörten - er wurde verleugnet, so lange Shakespeares Werk zum Ideal einer reinen Dichtungskunst stilisiert wurde. Nicht zufällig waren es dann... more...
"Have You Seen . . . ?"
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 29.95In 1975, David Thomson published his Biographical Dictionary of Film, and few film books have enjoyed better press or such steady sales. Now, thirty-three years later, we have the companion volume, a second book of more than 1,000 pages in one voice?that of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian. Juxtaposing the fanciful and... more...
'Un-American' Hollywood
Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 27.95The concept of "un-Americanism," so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the emotional rhetoric that followed the September 11th terrorist attacks. Today's political and cultural climate makes it more crucial than ever to come to terms with the consequences of this earlier period of repression... more...
"Und es trieb die Rede mich an..."
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 154.00On the occasion of his 65th birthday, one of the most prominent German rhetoricians, literary critics and publicists, Gert Ueding, was honoured with a festschrift by the School of Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen. In their contributions, his friends, companions and colleagues reflect the wide range of Gerd Ueding?s interests, which encompass... more...









