(Paperback)

One of the most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers, Robert Gardner is original, as well as controversial, filmmakers. This title contains essays dedicated to his work - a corpus of films including "Dead Birds" (1963), "Rivers of Sand" (1974), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986).

(Hardback)

One of the most artistic of ethnographic filmmakers, and the most ethnographic of artistic filmmakers, Robert Gardner is original, as well as controversial, filmmakers. This title contains essays dedicated to his work - a corpus of films including "Dead Birds" (1963), "Rivers of Sand" (1974), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986).

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.

(Hardback)

This monograph traces the history of Kazakh filmmaking from its conception as a Soviet cultural construction project to its peak as fully-fledged national cinema to its eventual re-imagining as an art-house phenomenon.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

"The first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the vast global workforce, suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives"--

(Hardback)

Traces the progressive redrawing of the boundaries between human beings and things as represented in cinema through commodity culture, objectification, and technological supplementation.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

"The first book dedicated to the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos, offering a range of critical approaches to his work"--

(Paperback)

"Using extensive examples of films and filmmakers from French and Japanese cinemas, this book tracks the longstanding and multiple cultural, aesthetic and stylistic links that are found in films from the two countries"--

(Hardback)

"Using extensive examples of films and filmmakers from French and Japanese cinemas, this book tracks the longstanding and multiple cultural, aesthetic and stylistic links that are found in films from the two countries"--

(Hardback)

This text showcases the versatility of the Frankenstein myth as expressed in cinema's horror genre. It offers a sustained critical analysis of the story's evolution over many decades, many studios, and many different styles of film-making, employing both primary texts and scholarly examination.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

Turkeys Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in 1864, resettling most notably in the Danubian provinces, Thessaly, Syria, Central Anatolia and the southern shores of the Sea of Marmara.

(Hardback)

The Citizen Action Encyclopedia provides basic information on the activities and significance of the people, organizations, and events that comprise the history of American citizen activism in the 20th century.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

(Hardback)

This book examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time reveals the republics deteriorating moral health. The book shows how having freedom from virtue has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement once described by Alexis de Tocqueville.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

This is a response to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use. The goal is to convert chaos to order, to make cities workable, to bar bad development, to encourage the building of necessary facilities, and to improve land use.

(Paperback)

This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

(Hardback)

This timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging.

(Paperback)