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Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema
(October 2022)
Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century
Jack A. Draper III - Editor
Cacilda M. Rêgo - Editor
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Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.
Women-Centered Brazilian Cinema highlights the bold, inspiring, and diverse work of female filmmakers—including directors, screenwriters, and producers—and female protagonists in the twenty-first century Brazilian film industry. T...(Read More) |
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Bitter Harvest
(August 2022)
An Inquiry into the War between Economy and Earth
Lisi Krall - Author
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Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.
Humans are in danger of crossing a divide where their foothold on an earth once abundant in self-willed otherness is slipping away. This is apparent with the sixth mass extinction, climate change, and the...(Read More) |
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Truth and Politics
(August 2022)
Toward a Post-Secular Community
Fred Dallmayr - Author
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Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.
Oppositions found in nearly every element of society readily give way to antagonism and hostility and, ultimately, to war and destruction...(Read More) |
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No Jurisdiction
(July 2022)
Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema
Fareed Ben-Youssef - Author
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A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.
No Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genr...(Read More) |
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Drops of Inclusivity
(June 2022)
Racial Formations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1965
Milagros Denis-Rosario - Author
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A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.
Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narrative with the individual stories of Black Puerto Ricans. While some of these Afro-Boricuas, such as Roberto Clemente and Ruth Fernández, are well-known, others, like Cecilia Orta...(Read More) |
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The Threefold Struggle
(June 2022)
Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn
Andrew Frederick Smith - Author
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Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.
We members of settler colonial culture—the latest form of what novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn calls Taker culture—are constrained by myriad institutions that...(Read More) |
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Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters
(April 2022)
Perception, Interpretation, and the Signs of Art
Robert E. Innis - Author
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A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.
We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myria...(Read More) |
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Of an Alien Homecoming
(April 2022)
Reading Heidegger's "Hölderlin"
Charles Bambach - Author
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The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.
Few themes resonate as powerfully in Heidegger as those connected to homecoming, homeland, and Heimat. This emphasis plays out most powerfully in Heidegger's reading of...(Read More) |
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