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Probably the prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. This title conveys the sense that we are at the movies with Silverman and Farocki, and that we, as both student and participant, are the ultimate beneficiaries.

How, for example did African Americans, feminists, and labor activists respond to the Titanic disaster? Why did the El train crash take on such symbolic meaning for the citizens of Chicago? In what ways did the San Francisco earthquake reaffirm rather than challenge a predominant faith in progress? This title deals with these questions.

Deals with Virginia Woolf's lesbianism. This title focuses on how Woolf's private and public experience and knowledge of same-sex love influences her shorter fiction and novels.

New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write. This book gathers a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with immediacy and imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September.

New Yorkers love a bargain as much as they love art. Artwalks in New York combines both as it maps out dozens of walking tours of free public art throughout the five boroughs. Completely updated, the new edition of this acclaimed guide brings us 33 tours of public art

An exploration of Jewish identities, contesting conventional approaches. The contributors argue that Jewish identity should be conceptualized as an ongoing dynamic process of "becoming" in response to changing cultural and social conditions rather than as a stable defining body of traits.

offers landmark classic and contemporary contributions by authors such as Annie Reich, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg, Alice Miller, Arnold Modell, and many others

A study of the ideology of Savitri Devi, whose beliefs combined Aryan supremacism and anti-semitism with Hinduism, social Darwinism and a fundamentally biocentric view of life. This book examines how Devi has been lionized by the fringe radical right as a foremother of Nazi ideology.

This anthology focuses on the legal rights of women of colour around the world. The essays discuss topical themes such as responses to white feminism, female genital mutilation and intersections of law, and the text addresses the role and status of women worldwide.

Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry is, without question, the major literary achievement of the early Middle Ages. In no other vernacular language does such a vast store of verbal treasures exist for so extended a period of time.

"Living Outside Mental Illness" demonstrates the importance of listening to what people diagnosed with schizophrenia themselves have to say about their struggle, and shows the dramatic effect this approach can have on clinical practice and social policy.

This analysis brings together the many perspectives that have shaped policy on the relationship between church and state. Contributors ranging from Stanley Fish to Richard John Neuhaus explore issues extending from religious morality and religious freedom to fundamentalism.

The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality. The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. Based on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. Essays show both age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns, in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on historical documents, literary texts, ethnographic observation and direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence of tolerated gender and sexual variances.

For every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. This is the story of Pec, Kosovo's most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst atrocities of the war, through the lives of two men-one Serb and one Kosovar.

An anthology to treat the role that emotions play, don't play, and ought to play in the practice and conception of law and justice. It contributes to the efforts to humanize law and reveals how this previously unacknowledged aspect of decision-making exerts a much greater impact on justice and the practice of law than most tend, or like, to think.

Explores the interaction of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. Bell includes in her work the experiences of detectives who are women, Black, Latino, and Asian American, exploring the impact of the racial identity of both the hate crime victim and the officers' handling of bias crimes.

The history of anti-Americanism is as long and varied as the history of the United States. Contributors here provide substance and depth to the recent outburst of fast talk on the topic of anti-Americanism by analyzing its history and currency in five key global regions.

A lively look at young Jewish women who are typically typecast as pious and reserved but have just as much imagination and similar desires as other young American women.

Ange-Marie Hancock argues that beliefs about poor African American mothers were the foundation for the contentious 1996 welfare reform debate that effectively "ended welfare as we know it." She shows how stereotypes and politically motivated misperceptions about race, class and gender were effectively used to instigate a politics of disgust.

This work shows that studying the interpretative methods of spectators in their historical contexts is necessary to understand the media's role in culture and in our personal lives. This approach is applied to topics such as depictions of violence and demonstrated through works like "JFK".

Questioning whether anti-Semitism is a transitory phenomenon, appearing randomly in Western history, or whether it reflects a deepseated tradition, this volume traces the image of the Jew and the attitudes toward the Jew from the Roman Empire to the reunification of Germany.

The first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visability and cultural impact. The author looks as such pop icons as JLo and Ricky Martin as well as West Side Story.

Pohlman calls for the interpretation of Holmes as a moderate defender of free speech, affording insight into Holmes's basic understanding of American constitutionalism. He argues that Holmes's crucial role was in developing the radical idea that the Constitution is a "living" entity.

Argues that strict legal guidelines prove insensitive to the diverse forms of cultural expression prevalent in the United States

"An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism...scholarly and complex."--"Library Journal""An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on Gershom Scholem and on his work."--"Notes Bibliographiques""An excellent guide to Scholem's work."--"Christian Century"

This text provides a chronicle of contemporary independent American films from the late 1970s up to 1999. It documents the socio-economic, political and artistic forces that led to the rise of independent films and looks at the tension between Hollywood and indie films.

An edited collection of Thomas Carlyle's seminal 19th century historical criticism of medieval history

Most studies of the religious significance of popular music focus on music lyrics, offering little insight into the religious aspects of the music itself. This book examines the religious dimensions of popular music subcultures, charting the influence and religious aspects of popular music in mainstream culture today.

Previously published as An American Metropolis, this book is a punchy, definitive history of New York and has been updated to include new material on the Giuliani administration and the events of September 2001.

With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building.