Film Noir. Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization, Paperback - ***

The term 'film noir' still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life...

From around 1850, London's street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociabili...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Michael VesethNumber of pages: 238Collection: GlobalizationPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 153 x 227 x ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Arjun AppaduraiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Public WorldsPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 22...

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globaliz...

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DescriptionFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this pr...

Reducere. In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, ...

This book explores the ways in which study of culture as the realm of meaning and identity can inform current debates about globalization and thus ...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): Approx. 100 illustrations; Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 496Publication ...

What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy?

A scrambled mess . . . Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Or--as his brother Detective Joe Dumpty thinks--was he pushed? This case isn't all it's crac...

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In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and i...

Reducere. During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy,...

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Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radical...

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist--the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies--has experienc...

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Publisher: Scholars' PressAuthor(s): Ibrahim MahmoodNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores...

Reducere. A drifter with no name and no past, driven purely by desire, is convinced by a beautiful woman to murder her husband. A hard-drinking detective dow...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 306Collection: Routledge Studies in Social and Political ThoughtPublication date: 2018Dimensions: 1...

DescriptionAttitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression,...

A new collection from the celebrated first Young People's Poet Laureate and bestselling poet Jack Prelutsky, featuring more than one hundred origin...

As with the three previous titles in the Cultures and Globalization Series, this is a cutting edge collection from an international group of author...

James Naremore introduces film noir, highlighting key themes, films, and styles, and exploring why the genre is so difficult to categorize. First a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Derek SculthorpeOne of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O'Brien made a series of iconic noir films. From...

Reducere. Today's religious violence challenges our understanding of religion. Do we need special notions such as 'cult' and 'fundamentalism' to come to term...

Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

Reducere. A revised and updated edition of the definitive study of film noir--the most original genre of American cinema--with a new afterword by the authorS...

The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This wo...

Reducere. For a tour of noir cinema this handbook is the perfect companion and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide. His choice selection of films exposes the men...

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

The essays in this volume engage directly with topical issues around art and gender, globalization, cultural difference, and curating, as well as e...

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. DescriptionIn Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African American filmmaking in the 1910s. Like th...

""She still hasn't gotten over that Easter Bunny letter, " said Zozo."""So what?" said Penina. "If my parents want me to go to Peekskill, what can ...

Reducere. Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We w...

DescriptionWhat are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen a...

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served...

Reducere. (FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to bru...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

Publisher: Herb Lester Associates LtdAuthor(s): Karen McBurniePublication date: 2019Dimensions: 147 x 209 x 11Cover type: Sheet map, foldedEditor(s...