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Considering everything from Nike ads, emaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O J Simpson trial, this book deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives.

Focuses on the role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power. This book uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of its investigation.

After considering how our view of Elizabethan drama has obscured an accurate view of the ancient tragedies, this text reviews early Greek notions of vengeance as expressed in the "Odyssey", Heracles' tales, Pindar's odes, Attic judicial processes, and the legend of Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

This novel portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger.

This is the story of Yindi, a beautiful young bride who marries the blind, bedridden son of a rich and noble family. Yindi is pressed beneath the weight of an existence that offers no hope of change and she experiences the slow suffocation of passion, moral strength and physical vitality.

A collection that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and covers a range of themes essential to understanding Islamic spirituality and religious life. It includes samples of virtually every major literary form of significance to the Muslim faith: the Qur'an, hadith, scriptural commentary, letters, treatises and more.

A freak accident leaves Frank Eastman a paraplegic. He imagines his existence to be in Los Angeles, the scene of his accident. He settles in a run-down motel near Disneyland with eccentric neighbours and through mesmerizing conversations with them becomes changed emotionally as he is physically.

Invites readers to explore the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America.

The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. This study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material.

Detailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the early 20th century. It documents the appearance of the popular committee and examines nationalist politics as a mass phenomenon that informs the politics of the region today.

In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as 'office ladies' (OLs). They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. This work exposes the ways that these women resist men's power, and why the men often subject themselves to the women's control.

This collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, mediaeval and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. The authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions.

Intends to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism and identity. It includes in-depth readings of a number of genres, including film and travel narrative.

Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body.

Plato and Aristotle both believed that the arts were mimetic creations of the human mind that had the power to influence society. These essays document the interaction between life and the arts that has made art more lively and life more artful with subjects ranging from antiquity to modern times.

Public spectacle formed a crucial component of the language of power in ancient Rome. This text presents a description of Rome's early history, by the historian Livy (16 BCE-17 CE). He presents his account of the growth of the Roman state itself as a visual monument and public spectacle.

Drawing from various sources, Mikalson traces the religious cults and beliefs of Athenians from the battle of Chaeroneia in 338 BC to the devastation of Athens by Sulla in 86 BC, demonstrating that traditional religion played a central role in Athenian private, social and political life.

Features more than 100 performance artists' interviews that highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performer-audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.

An account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines. It examines Muslim separatism against a background of more than four hundred years of political relations among indigenous Muslim rulers, their subjects, and external powers seeking the subjugation of Philippine Muslims.

This reissue offers an opportunity to consider the state of the American health-care system. The text chronicles the development of the medical profession and shows how increasing emphasis on specialization has influenced medical education and public policy.

Traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, whose founder hoped to rebuild the moral foundation of French culture on the ruins of the Benedictine order.

A collection that includes "The Power and the Glory", which greatly influenced Orson Welles in the conception of "Citizen Kane", and the romantic comedies "Remember the Night and Easy Living".

Comparing Heidegger's book "Being and Time" with other texts on history and politics written at the same time, this text argues that "Being and Time" provides a summary of right-wing politics in general and paves the way for National Socialism.

Augustine did a great deal to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome, and exerted a large influence on medieval and modern thought. The articles in this book present Augustine's ideas in a way that respects their historical context and the long history of their influence.

Explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. This book presents the story of the Soviet Zion. It sheds light on a host of important historical and contemporary issues regarding Jewish identity, community, and culture.

A ctalog that covers the decade of the sixties. It includes films such as: "The Wild Bunch", "Bonnie and Clyde", "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

Covers the important filmmaking period when "movies" became "talkies," and the careers of many influential directors and actors were launched.

Offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. This book challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development.

The American Film Institute Catalog has won great praise for its comprehensiveness, reliability, and utility. This title contains over 2500 feature-length films with an emphasis on racial and national ethnic experience in the United States.

Provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. In tracing the birth of modern sexuality, this work chronicles the dynamics of social change during this cultural moment and explains the shifts in the sexual ethos of turn-of-the-century America.