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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “julia heim”
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  • Spaghetti Sissies Queering Italian American Media

    Edited by Julia Heim, Sole Anatrone ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This contributed volume brings together personal accounts and scholarly research in an examination of the LGBTQIA+ Italian American experience and representation in North American media. This is a population that has long been ignored both as an object of study and as a media-maker and consumer. Through consistent filmic representation, the image of the Italian American has become archetypal, ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Queering Italian Media

    by Sole Anatrone, Julia Heim, Dom Holdaway, Luca Malici, Alessia Palanti, Alessio Ponzio ...
    Queering Italian Media analyzes and offers queer readings of LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian media. The contributors apply various understandings of "queer" and "media" as they discuss the relationship between the political and social lives of queer populations in Italy and investigate their representations in film, news media, television, social media, and viewer-generated media sites. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Queer Apocalypses

    Elements of Antisocial Theory

    by Lorenzo Bernini ...
    Translated by Julia Heim ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is an attempt to save “the sexual” from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory. It takes a journey from Sigmund Freud to Mario Mieli and Guy Hocquenghem, from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to Teresa de Lauretis, Leo ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Living Memory

    The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

    by Jillian R. Cavanaugh ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival• Introduces the original concept of the “social ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Vulnerability as generativity

    Undoing parenthood in a gylanic perspective

    by Cristiana Ottaviano, Alessia Santambrogio ...
    This book focuses on parenthood and generativity, considered not only a set of biological functions, but as human and socio-cultural capabilities above and beyond gender differences. The authors reconsider in particular the institution of motherhood, emphasizing the historical and social function of women. Alongside a refl ection on the gender role of women as mothers and wives, this volume ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

    Definition, Theory, and Accented Practices, Volume 1

    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments in the field as well focuses on practicing cultural studies with essays devoted to Italian ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Tuscan Spaces

    Literary Constructions of Space

    by Silvia M. Ross ...
    An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Essays on Modern Art: Andy Warhol - Criticisms and Essays on Previously Unseen Art in the Koolhaas Collection

    by Justice Koolhaas ...
    Justice Koolhaas's Essays on Modern Art are reproduced alongside at least one of each artist's works that she owned. Unusually, these works were discards; even more unusually, she obtained them on condition that each artist signed a statement disowning them as artworks.Her theory work, a refusenikism written in deliberate opacity, is inspired by her collection of art refuse. She unblinkingly ... Read more

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  • Cruising Utopia

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    by Jose Esteban Munoz ...
    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Murder Made in Italy

    Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

    by Ellen Nerenberg ...
    A study of three high-profile Italian murder cases, how they were covered by the media, and what it all says about Italian culture.Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past twenty years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder ... Read more

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  • Methods & Theories of Art History Third Edition

    by Anne D'Alleva, Michael Cothren ...
    This book is an accessible introduction to the critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments, controversies and divergent perspectives. This edition has been updated to reflect recent scholarship in contemporary art and has been broken down into smaller sections for greater accessibility. The book begins with a revised discussion of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD