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  • Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze

    Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought

    by Robert Stam ...
    Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy.Spanning ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Unthinking Eurocentrism

    Multiculturalism and the Media

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    Series series Sightlines
    Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises, embedded narratives, and submerged tropes that constituted a broadly shared epistemology. Within a transdisciplinary study, the authors argued that the debates about Eurocentrism and post/coloniality must be considered ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media

    Towards a Transartistic Commons

    by Robert Stam ...
    With extraordinary transnational and transdisciplinary range, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media comprehensively explores the genealogies, vocabularies, and concepts orienting the fields within literature, cinema, and media studies.Orchestrating a layered conversation between arts, disciplines, and media, Stam argues for their "mutual embeddedness" and their shared "in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Film Theory

    An Introduction

    by Robert Stam ...
    This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Keywords in Subversive Film / Media Aesthetics

    by Robert Stam ...
    Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts.No other book combines an ambitious essay on radical politics and aesthetics in film with a lexicon of terms and ideas, ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Flagging Patriotism

    Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    The question "Why do they hate us?" is one of the most oft-cited puzzles of contemporary American affairs, yet it’s not clear to whom "they" or "us" refers, nor even what "hate" means. In this bold new work, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam take apart the "hate discourse" of right-wing politics, placing it in an international context. How, for example, do other nations love themselves, and how is that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics

    Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond

    Edited by Robert Stam ...
    First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it constructs an indispensable dictionary for film theory, defining over five hundred critical terms. The authors address key aspects of contemporary semiotics and cultural debate, while referring to the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Race in Translation

    Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic

    by Ella Shohat, Robert Stam ...
    While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments inthe English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmativeaction, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Racein Translation charts thetransatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S.,France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative ... Read more

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  • Comparison

    Theories, Approaches, Uses

    Edited by Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities.Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance

    The Power of Story

    by Professor Eric Selbin ...
    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur.In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

    Edited by Paisley Livingston, Carl Plantinga ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts:• issues and concepts• authors and trends• genres• film as philosophy.Part one is a comprehensive section ... Read more

    $80.99 USD