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Reservation Reelism
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 50.00In this deeply engaging account, Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywoods representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous... more...
So You Want to Write
Leapfrog Press 2005; US$ 14.95The Writer Magazine's "Best Book of the Year for Writers" now in a big, new, expanded edition. more...
The Essay Film
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 20.99Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnes Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued... more...
The Sting
Soft Skull Press 2011; US$ 12.95From Melville to Madoff, the Confidence Man is an essential American archetype. George Roy Hill?s 1973 film The Sting treats this theme with a characteristic dexterity. The movie was warmly received in its time, winning seven Academy Awards, but there were some who thought the movie was nothing more than a slight throwback. Pauline Kael, among... more...
Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa. more...
Children in Culture, Revisited
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture , and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity. more...
The Art of Faking It
Running Press 2008; US$ 12.95In today?s fast-paced society, who has time to keep up with both the current trends and the classics of what is ?good? and ?popular?? The Art of Faking It guides you?with tongue planted firmly in cheek?through any awkward, intellectual, and/or über-sophisticated social situation, using both panache and pithy nuggets of wisdom to ensure you?ll never... more...
Elizabeth I in Film and Television
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures from the Silent era on and in television miniseries. Actresses who have portrayed Elizabeth include Bette... more...
Ethics and Politics of Translating
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00What if meaning were the last thing that mattered in language? In this essay, Henri Meschonnic explains what it means to translate the sense of language and how to do it. In a radical stand against a hermeneutical approach based on the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into a meaningful signified and a meaningless signifier,... more...
Regional Best 2012
Level 4 Press, Inc. 2011; US$ 9.95Second in the annual series of the best plays that have had a premier in a regional theater, but no NYC premier. more...









