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Colonialism and the Bible

Contemporary Reflections from the Global South

by Tat-siong Benny Liew, Michel Elias Andraos, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Carlos F. Cardoza Orlandi, Eleazar S. Fernandez, Hisako Kinukawa, Safwat Marzouk, Dora Mbuwayasengo, Yael Munk, Kenneth Ngwa0, Ivan Petrella1, Vítor Westhelle2, Nami Kim3, Mitri Raheb4, J. Jayakiran Sebastian5, Fernando F. Segovia6, Jenny Te Paa Daniel8 ...

Series series Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors address the present state of the problematic relationship in their respective geopolitical and geographical contexts. In so doing, ... Read more

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This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors address the present state of the problematic relationship in their respective geopolitical and geographical contexts. In so doing,
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Casting a Giant Shadow

The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema

by Zachary Ingle, Ohad Landesman, Shmulik Duvdevani, Neta Alexander, Joshua Beaty, Nava Dushi, Yael Munk, Yaron Peleg, Ariel M. Sheetrit, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Pablo Utin, Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin, Mary N. Layoun, Julie Grimmeisen, Yaron Shemer, Anat Dan ...

Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
Film came to the territory that eventually became Israel not long after the medium was born. Casting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is "Israeli" within Israeli cinema.As the State of Israel developed, so did its film industries. Moving beyond the early films of the Yishuv, which focused on the creation of ... Read more

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Film came to the territory that eventually became Israel not long after the medium was born. Casting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is "Israeli" within Israeli cinema.As the State of Israel developed, so did its film industries. Moving beyond the early films of the Yishuv, which focused on the creation of
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Translated Memories

Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust

by Bettina Hofmann, Anne Ranasinghe, Carol Ascher, Daniel Feldman, Bruno Arich-Gerz, Doron Ben-Atar, Julia Epstein, Elizabeth Rosner, Federico Dal Bo, Christoph Houswitschka0, Naomi Shmuel1, Joseph Swann2, Richard Aronowitz3, Christoph Heyl4, Yael Munk5, Lilian Gergely6, Sue Lieberman7, Dani Kranz8, Peter Wortsman9, Ursula Reuter1, Lori Hope Lefkovitz2, Maria Roca Lizarazu3, Rebecca Margolis4, Steven Leonard Jacobs5, Victoria Aarons6 ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed. ... Read more

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This volume engages with memory of the Holocaust as expressed in literature, film, and other media. It focuses on the cultural memory of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors, while also taking into view those who were children during the Nazi period. Language loss, language acquisition, and the multiple needs of translation are recurrent themes for all of the authors discussed.
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Border Cinema

Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics

by Frederick Luis Aldama, José Capino, Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Nurith Gertz, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Marina Hassapopoulou, Elena Lahr-Vivaz, Yael Munk, Anita Pinzi, Anat Zanger ...

Series series Global Media and Race
The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection ... Read more

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The rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection
... Read more

Authoritarian Apprehensions

Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

by Lisa Wedeen ...

Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events ... Read more

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If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events
... Read more
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

by Hamid Naficy ...

Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

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Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national
... Read more
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

by Hamid Naficy ...

Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national
... Read more
The Future of Palestine

How Discrimination Hinders Change

by Tamar Haddad ...

The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking “honor killing” of the author’s classmate and friend, Israa Ghrayeb. Her alleged crime? The simple act of going out, in broad daylight, with her fiancé and his sister—an act Ghrayeb’s cousin maintained was unacceptable in a conservative society. While Ghrayeb’s killers may be free, their manner of thinking is ... Read more

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The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking “honor killing” of the author’s classmate and friend, Israa Ghrayeb. Her alleged crime? The simple act of going out, in broad daylight, with her fiancé and his sister—an act Ghrayeb’s cousin maintained was unacceptable in a conservative society. While Ghrayeb’s killers may be free, their manner of thinking is
... Read more
Tafsir: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

by Andrew Rippin ...

Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook
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Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?

Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

by Richard Landes ...

Series series Antisemitism in America
A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and ... Read more

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A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and
... Read more
Israeli Historical Revisionism

From Left to Right

Edited by Derek J. Penslar, Anita Shapira ...

The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post ... Read more

$70.99 USD

The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post
... Read more
Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine ...

This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The ... Read more

$28.79 USD

This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The
... Read more

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