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  • Alternative Projections

    Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945–1980

    Edited by David E. James, Adam Hyman ...
    A collection of papers discussing Los Angeles's role in avant-garde, experimental, and minority filmmaking.Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the University of Southern ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spies and Shuttles

    NASA's Secret Relationships with the DoD and CIA

    by James E. David ...
    Revealing the connections between NASA and the United States defense communityIn this real life spy saga, James E. David reveals the extensive and largely hidden interactions between NASA and U.S. defense and intelligence departments. The story begins with the establishment of NASA in 1958 and follows the agency through its growth, not only in scope but also in complexity.In Spies and Shuttles, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Fight of My Life

    The Coronavirus: A Dance with the Devil

    by David E. James ...
    “I CAN’T BREATHE!”These were the last words of more than a half-million people in America who contracted the deadly Coronavirus.Ironically, they were also among the last words of Mr. George Floyd, an African-American man murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer who knelt on Mr. Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds.Was it merely a coincidence that these same words were ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Power Misses II

    Cinema, Asian and Modern

    by David E. James ...
    Like David James' earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultural activity that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media. Now with a wider frame of reference, it moves globally from west to east, beginning with films made during the Korean Democracy ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • To Free the Cinema

    Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground

    Edited by David E. James ...
    Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigr and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercialism or the postwar rebellion against it. By focusing on his sensitivity to political struggle, however, leading film ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Economics of Dryland Management

    by John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert. Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20 per cent of the world's population lives in dryland areas, and unless action is taken drylands will increase dramatically.This book focuses ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Rock 'N' Film

    Cinema's Dance With Popular Music

    by David E. James ...
    For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock's capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media industries, Rock 'N' Film explores how the music's contradictory potentials were reproduced in various kinds of cinema, including major ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Dryland Management: Economic Case Studies

    by John A. Dixon, David E. James, Paul B. Sherman ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas that support extensiveagricultural systems dependent on rainfall or irrigation.Following their successful and innovative work The Economics of Dryland Management the editors have assembled twenty case ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Optic Antics

    The Cinema of Ken Jacobs

    Edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, Paul Arthur ...
    Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Optic Antics

    The Cinema of Ken Jacobs

    Edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, Paul Arthur ...
    Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Application of Economic Techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment

    Edited by David E. James ...
    Series Book 4 - Environment & Management
    The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable exceptions. That economics can provide a powerful vehicle for communicating an integrated understanding of the often diverse scientific findings germane to environmental im pact assessment needs to be ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD