Bøker utgitt av University of California Press

Documenting the distinctive history of early American cinema, this study describes how motion pictures were developed and represented. It covers the creation and growth of the first US film companies, and the development of different styles of film production and distribution.

This study examines the 45 years of post-war Japanese history, describing the related themes: Japan's extraordinary economic growth and the endurance of conservative rule.

Explains the kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy.

Covers the period from the early Christian church to the 20th century, offering fresh appraisals of such encounters as the trial of Galileo, the formulation of the Newtonian worldview, and the controversies over 'scientific creationism'. This book explores not only the impact of religion on science, but also the influence of science and religion.

An anthology that emphasizes the questions dealing with film's ideological operations, the nature of film genres, the role of the auteur in the creative process, the representation of social groups (such as women) in film, the logical of narrative and formal organizations in films, the treatment of films as myths, and theoretical perspectives.

Concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are exemplified in the attributing of motives.

Reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the emergence of national history. The author discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own.

Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book shows explorers were far from rational - often meeting their hosts in states influenced by opiates, alcohol, sex, fever, and fatigue.

Offers a critique and substantial revision of the historic theories of scientific rationality and progress. This book focuses on contextual problem solving effectiveness as a criterion for progress, and expands the notion of 'paradigm' to a 'research tradition,' thus providing a meta-empirical basis for the commensurability of competing theories.

Argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. This title emphasizes the anarchist contribution to revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice.

"The choreography of cinematic creation is stunningly revealed in this learned and lively book. Finely historical with meticulous descriptions of directors, actors, and cameras in motion, "Figures Traced In Light registers for the first time the abiding patterns of cinematic staging around the world and through the years. "--Janet Walker, author of "Trauma Cinema"David Bordwell is undoubtedly the most productive and influential film historian at work today. His magisterial "Figures Traced in Light combines incisive close analyses of compelling filmic artifacts with a painstaking attention to all pertinent research materials. Eschewing any abstract notion of Film, he stresses the labor, thought, and creativity which goes into the staging of individual films."--Eric Rentschler, Harvard University

Considers the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases.

Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. This book collects together original essays on genocide, exploring a wide range of cases, including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda and Bosnia.

A cultural history of Italian fascism, this work traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of a regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. The author reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism.

Reveals the religious world view and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, the book demonstrates how Muslims have used literary and visual arts to communicate religious values.

Presenting five major areas of Augustan scholarship - historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics - this title presents an account of Augustus and his principate.

Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. This volume searches out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain.

Offers a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms. This title focuses on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

Deals with theater phenomenon. This title focuses on the activity of theater making itself out of its essential materials: speech, sound, movement, scenery, text, etc.

"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition".

Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary. This book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children.

This counter-cultural collection of American verse fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American poetry. Contributors include: Olson; Duncan; Creeley; Guest; Ashbery; Ginsberg; Kerouac; Levertov; O'Hara; Snyder; and Schuyler.

Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. This title studies these abandoned children, and examines their lives and the strategies the government used to remove them from the streets lest they threaten plans to mold a new socialist generation.

While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers can welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a range of general perspectives.

This supplementary volume attempts to evaluate and simplify Pound's often bewildering work. It contains over 10,000 separate glosses that identify all proper names, literary and historical allusions, with exegeses based upon Pound's original sources.

Gathers together Strindberg's important and frequently performed plays - "The Father", "Miss Julie", "A Dream Play", "The Dance of Death", and "The Ghost Sonata" - in translations praised for their fluency and their elegance.

Focuses on the author's sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself.