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  • World Cinema and Cultural Memory

    by I. Hedges ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Mysterious Island (Cronos Classics)

    by Jules Verne ...
    This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents. The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: The tale reflects her love for the Lake District and her admiration for children's illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Jeremy Fisher is a frog who lives in a "slippy-sloppy" house at the edge of a pond. One rainy day he collects worms for fishing, and sets off across ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature

    by Julie Cross ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Comparison and History

    Europe in Cross-National Perspective

    Edited by Deborah Cohen, Maura O'Connor ...
    Historians today like to preach the virtues of comparison and cross-national work. In the last decade, cross-national histories have prospered, yielding important work in the subjects as diverse as the transatlantic trade in slaves and the cultures of celebrity. In the meantime, comparative history has also enjoyed a renaissance, but what is largely missing in the rush beyond the nation is any ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins

    by Giorgia Grilli ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins,Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists

    Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age

    by T. Messer-Kruse ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event, it documents in detail how the basic facts, as far as they can be determined, have been distorted, obscured, or suppressed for seventy years. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Politics of War Commemoration in the UK and Russia

    by Nataliya Danilova ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for managing civil-military relations and garnering public support for conflicts. It explains the nexus between remembrance, militarisation and nationalism in modern societies. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Memory Work

    The Second Generation

    by Nina Fischer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Memory Work studies how Jewish children of Holocaust survivors from the English-speaking diaspora explore the past in literary texts. By identifying areas where memory manifests - Objects, Names, Bodies, Food, Passover, 9/11 it shows how the Second Generation engage with the pre-Holocaust family and their parents' survival. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Russian Children's Literature and Culture

    Edited by Marina Balina, Larissa Rudova ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Soviet literature in general and Soviet children’s literature in particular have often been labeled by Western and post-Soviet Russian scholars and critics as propaganda. Below the surface, however, Soviet children’s literature and culture allowed its creators greater experimental and creative freedom than did the socialist realist culture for adults. This volume explores the importance of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Empathy and its Limits

    Edited by Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers ...
    This volume extends the theoretical scope of the important concept of empathy by analysing not only the cultural contexts that foster the generating of empathy, but in focusing also on the limits of pro-social feelings and the mechanisms that lead to its blocking. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Girls and Their Comics

    Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative

    by Jacqueline Danziger-Russell ...
    In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy—muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. While there have been many strong representations of women throughout their history, the comics of today have evolved and matured, becoming a potent medium in which to explore the female experience ... Read more

    $80.99 USD