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Promoting Postcolonial Australia - New Readings Of Miles Franklin And Joseph Furphy

by John Uhr

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 Using Edward Saidâ€™s postcolonial literary theory, John Uhr demonstrates the valuable political wisdom in the surprisingly post-liberal novels of national civic culture by both Australian writers.
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Transcultural Perspectives In Literature, Language, Art, And Politics

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 This book explores the dynamics of transculturality through five sections: literature, translation and linguistics, cinema, communication, and politics. The contributorsâ€™ diverse background in the Humanities allows for a wide enquiry into the far-reaching capabilities of transculturality both as an intellectual tool and as an identity in motion.
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An Accidental Pope - Essays On Frederick Rolfeâ€™S Hadrian The Seventh

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 Offers insight into the political, religious, and literary themes in Frederick Rolfeâ€™s Hadrian the Seventh.
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From Ideology To Nostalgia - Excursions With Arthur Koestler And Sándor Márai

by Miklos Balint Toth

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 From Ideology to Nostalgia aims to draw attention to the political theoretical relevance of works written by Hungarian authors. By analyzing the novels of Arthur Koestler and SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai, MiklÃ³s BÃ¡lint TÃ³th seeks to understand the complex nature of political phenomena related to the concept of political order.
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From Ideology To Nostalgia - Excursions With Arthur Koestler And Sandor Marai

by Miklos Balint Toth

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 From Ideology to Nostalgia aims to draw attention to the political theoretical relevance of works written by Hungarian authors. By analyzing the novels of Arthur Koestler and SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai, MiklÃ³s BÃ¡lint TÃ³th seeks to understand the complex nature of political phenomena related to the concept of political order.
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Scenes From The American Working Class - This Hard Land

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 The twelve chapters of Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land use the lens of political theory to explore the working life of Americans as it has been depicted in popular culture. It covers a wide range of experiences and voices from the past hundred-plus years.
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Filming The First - Cinematic Portrayals Of Freedom Of The Press

by Brandon T. Metroka, Bruce E. Altschuler e Helen J. Knowles-Gardner

~~113,29€~~ 90,63€ 20% OFF

 Filming the First provides in-depth case studies and analyses of eighteen films depicting aspects of freedom of the press. It discusses the substantive social, political, historical, and legal aspects and implications of press freedoms illustrated in the films.
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Philosophical Perspective On Cinema

by Pedro Blas Gonzalez

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 Philosophical Perspective on Cinema addresses the relationship between human existence and sensual reality. Applying metaphysical/existential reflection to cinema, the author explores the philosophical clarity that cinema can offer reflective persons about the human experience.
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Wicked Leadership In Film

by Bruce Peabody

~~101,36€~~ 81,09€ 20% OFF

 This book offers an original theory and set of cinematic case studies to examine how we contend with â€œwicked problems,â€ important, entrenched, and far-reaching political and social challenges (such as climate change or mental illness) that resist ordinary policies and problem solving.
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Wicked Leadership In Film

by Bruce Peabody

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 This book offers an original theory and set of cinematic case studies to examine how we contend with â€œwicked problems,â€ important, entrenched, and far-reaching political and social challenges (such as climate change or mental illness) that resist ordinary policies and problem solving.
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Filming The First - Cinematic Portrayals Of Freedom Of The Press

by Brandon T. Metroka, Bruce E. Altschuler e Helen J. Knowles-Gardner

~~128,43€~~ 102,74€ 20% OFF

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 Filming the First provides in-depth case studies and analyses of eighteen films depicting aspects of freedom of the press. It discusses the substantive social, political, historical, and legal aspects and implications of press freedoms illustrated in the films.
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Political Wisdom In Late Shakespeare - A Way Out Of The Wreck

by Nicolas Mcafee

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 â€œA Way Out of the Wreckâ€ explores the political wisdom contained in the four last plays of Shakespeareâ€™s First Folio. These four plays prove remarkably united in their presentation of five virtuesâ€"patience, piety, fidelity, clemency, and diligenceâ€"which consistently appear desirable for rulers to have and regimes to encourage.
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A Prophet Of Modern Delusions - Tolstoyâ€™S Critique Of Modernity

by John P. Moran

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 This book explores Leo Tolstoyâ€™s understanding of the delusions of modernity. In so doing, it illustrates the continuing relevance of Tolstoyâ€™s writings to those who desire to understand the complexities of modernity and who wish to be roused from deeply entrenched ways of thinking that may be delusional.
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Come With Me If You Want To Live - The Future As Foretold In Classic Sci-Fi Films

by Michael Harris

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 If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, thatâ€™s because it is. Come With Me If You Want to Live reveals how great science fiction films predicted the world weâ€™re increasingly living in, but how we can still avoid the worst of what they warned us about. (50)
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Film And Faith - Modern Cinema And The Struggle To Believe

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 In this edited volume twelve scholars of philosophy, political theory, and theology consider the role of religious ideas in several modern films. The authors explore how these films grapple with themes such as sin and judgment, grace and reconciliation, and the confrontation of good with radical evil.
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Dark Places - Crime And Politics In The Personal Noir Of James Ellroy

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 James Ellroy has mined the darkest corners of the American experience, public and private, to paint a landscape of corrupt hearts, minds, and institutions. Ellroy is particularly notable for exploring the connection between the murder of his own mother, when he was ten years old, and his troubled adolescence and early adulthood struggles with addiction. "Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively," he wrote in the memoir My Dark Places. Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy will explore connections between politics, art, history, memory, and crime -- Ellroy’s personal noir. The editors here present an interdisciplinary collection of essays, each with insight and argument into the pressurized, and at times, highly personal literary production of one of the most critically and commercially successful authors of our time. These contributions, scholarly yet accessible, offer compelling and provocative maps into the terrain of Ellroy’s fiction and non-fiction, drawing focus as well on film adaptations of his work.
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Film And Faith - Modern Cinema And The Struggle To Believe

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 In this edited volume twelve scholars of philosophy, political theory, and theology consider the role of religious ideas in several modern films. The authors explore how these films grapple with themes such as sin and judgment, grace and reconciliation, and the confrontation of good with radical evil.
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Architecture Of Survival - Setting And Politics In Apocalypse Films

by Erik Trump e Jake Parcell

~~101,36€~~ 81,09€ 20% OFF

 This book argues that apocalypse films offer instruction about architectureâ€™s social significance. Through set design, films suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible.
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Dissident Politics In Vaclav Havel'S Vanek Plays - Who Is Ferdinand Vanek Anyway?

by Carol Strong

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 The Dissident Politics in Václav Havel’s Vanek Plays: Who Is Ferdinand Vanek Anyway focuses on Ferdinand Vanek, a semi-autobiographical character created by Václav Havel and featured in a series of nine plays written by Havel himself and three other dissident writers - Pavel Kohout, Pavel Landovský, and Jirí Dienstbier. By exploring the ‘Vanek experience,’ Carol Strong details a multi-episodic, absurdist journey that provides an ‘insider’s view’ of the challenges facing those daring enough to question the status quo, a view that remains relevant today. Strong’s contention is that the lines found in these plays served as a ‘secret language’ of dissent in Cold War Czechoslovakia, which called the citizenry to contemplate the need for societal reform. As the plays were written at a time when the work of Havel and other dissidents were banned, the plays were never performed publicly, but through clandestine living room performances and the sharing of samizdat scripts the plays found an audience. Select phrases were indeed whispered throughout underground networks and helped forge a sense of oppositional solidarity among potential activists. Strong’s argument is that the ‘Vanek experience’ metaphorically highlights how official power mechanisms are among the least insidious forms of societal power, as the state must follow predictable patterns of legal jurisprudence. By contrast, non-governmental forms of power - as exercised by one’s fellow citizens through informal social channels - can challenge oppositional actors more because of the personal tone they adopt. Using this approach, Strong presents a timelessly relevant critique of modern society with its consumerist / conformist tendencies.
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Come With Me If You Want To Live - The Future As Foretold In Classic Sci-Fi Films

by Michael Harris

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 If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, thatâ€™s because it is. Come With Me If You Want to Live reveals how great science fiction films predicted the world weâ€™re increasingly living in, but how we can still avoid the worst of what they warned us about. (50)
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The Architecture Of Survival - Setting And Politics In Apocalypse Films

by Erik Trump e Jake Parcell

~~114,91€~~ 91,93€ 20% OFF

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 This book argues that apocalypse films offer instruction about architectureâ€™s social significance. Through set design, films suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible.
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Magic In Early Modern England - Literature, Politics, And Supernatural Power

by Andrew Moore

~~89,44€~~ 71,55€ 20% OFF

 This book places early modern philosophy and political theory into conversation with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing on magic: plays, spell books, treatises, and witch trial narratives. Reading works by Hobbes and Bacon alongside writing by necromancers and witch-hunters reveals a broad cultural obsession with supernatural power.
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Popular Culture And The Political Values Of Neoliberalism

by George A. Gonzalez

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 Reality is made up of absolute and casualty ideals. This book analyzes the lower aspects of absolute ideals that result in personal and social dysfunction and the ultimate end of civilization. Conversely, a society based on casualty and justice is stable and vibrant. It is a classless society, free of gender and ethnic biases.
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Psychopathology And Religion - Structural Convergences Between Mental Disorders And Religion

by Damian Janus

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 Damian Janus draws on his clinical experience to address the relationship between psychopathology and religion. Using clinical vignettes and religious concepts, Janus questions common understandings of mental disorders.
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