Alluring Monsters. The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization, Paperback - ***

The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in pos...

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

Reducere. Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of...

Reducere. Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritar...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Monique A. BedasseFrom its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the ex...

Reducere. Ooi's college life would be going better if he wasn't constantly dealing with his cute underclassman, Kunugi. It's not that she's mean or anything,...

Reducere. This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today's ...

Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one...

Veteran photographer Simon Edelstein has spent 12 years travelling the world - the USA, France, Italy, India, Morocco and Cuba - in search of aband...

Publisher: Wirklichkeit BooksAuthor(s): Steffen ZilligPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 284 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera fa...

In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separat...

Providing a reading of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor as political thinkers, Gary Wilder explains how these eminent anti-colonial thinkers, poets...

Reducere. Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism,...

DescriptionA concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth centuryThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean w...

This is an innovative and accessible study of how decolonization is engaged with, subverted, and transformed as a curriculum change project in univ...

Memories of Post-Imperial Nations: The Aftermath of Decolonization, 1945–2013 - Dietmar Rothermund

DescriptionThis special issue of Cin ma & Cie explores the cultural dynamics, ideological aporias and political struggles that characterize the rel...

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This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical poin...

Reducere. In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's popu...

Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the en...

Reducere. A bold synthesis of the events that have dominated modern Africa in this historic era of nation-building and transformation.About the AuthorDavid B...

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

Reducere. The textbook of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's Care of Magical Creatures class comes to life in this one-of-a-kind collectible featur...

Publisher: HeadpressIllustration(s): 400 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 604Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 215 x 42Cover type: ...

DescriptionAfter centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a...

From the serpentine "Champie" of Lake Champlain to the venerable "Nessie" of Loch Ness, extraordinary-and un-explained-creatures of the deep have b...

An ethnographically framed account of the long, bitter fight for freedom that challenges the dominant international narrative that West Papuans' qu...

Reducere. The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's ...

Reducere. Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narrati...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kristin RossNumber of pages: 274Collection: October BooksPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 183 x 249 x 14Cover t...

Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggl...

Reducere. This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was...

Reducere. Monsters have preoccupied mankind from the earliest times: even cave art includes animal-human monsters. Certainly monsters were present in the anc...