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Book After Marx

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  • Author : Colleen Lye
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-03-17
  • ISBN : 1108489281
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book After Marx written by Colleen Lye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Marx showcases the importance of Marxist literary study for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline.

Book Screening Insurrection

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  • Author : Galen James Wilson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Screening Insurrection written by Galen James Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my dissertation I explore the ways in which New Deal era Hollywood cinema represented the growing spirit of collective action that defined the 1930s. Specifically, I examine the ways film redirected the collective impulse of the radical left by positioning a strengthened heteronormative family as the path to national economic renewal. Drawing upon archival sources as well as cultural historians such as Richard Pells and Michael Denning and scholars of masculinity such as Michael Kimmel and R.W. Connell, I contend that the cinema of this era reinforced the national myth of the couple as the "proper" American path to economic renewal and represented collective action as being in direct conflict with the family. Beginning with Hollywood's representation of radical collectives in the 1930s, I argue that the film industry vilified working-class collective action by equating it with mob justice and suggesting that masculine collectivity was inherently destructive to the heteronormative couple. Rather than reflecting the spirit of economic empowerment through collective action, these films, like the New Deal Administration itself, suggested that the proper path to national economic renewal was through a renewal of masculinity and the heteronormative family. I explore figures associated with subversive masculinity and collectivity during the New Deal era: the hobo and the outlaw, and explores the ways in which these figures' subversiveness was contained and assimilated to the New Deal capitalist state. Tramping, long associated with a radical break from industrial capitalism and heteronormativity, became redefined as a temporary right of passage during which the masculine individualist reestablished his manhood before restoring his economic fortunes and establishing a stable romantic couple. Similarly the outlaw figure shifted from the working-class gangster rebelling against capitalism to the aristocratic outlaw, seeking merely to restore the proper capitalist system. Finally, I examine the ultimate containment of the nascent working-class collectives of the 1930s and 1940s by analyzing Hollywood's World War II era production. By looking at these films it is possible to see the ways in which the spirit of radical collective action was finally reincorporated into the capitalist hegemony to preserve rather than overthrow the system. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/152572

Book Insurrection

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  • Author : Nick Westwood
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1291453334
  • Pages : 489 pages

Download or read book Insurrection written by Nick Westwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hukbalahap Insurrection

Download or read book The Hukbalahap Insurrection written by Lawrence M. Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Screening Protest

Download or read book Screening Protest written by Alexa Robertson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screening Protest brings together a range of scholarly perspectives on the study of protest mediations on television and in film. Arguing that the screen is a fruitful, if overlooked, analytical focus, the book explores how visual narratives of protest wander across borders – territorial, temporal and generic. Chapters compare coverage of major protests in recent history by global news channels like Al Jazeera English, BBC World, CNN International and RT. They consider how geopolitical agendas, newsroom culture and the ubiquity of eyewitness footage shape the narration of events such as the ‘Umbrella Revolution’ in Hong Kong, anti-austerity protests in Greece, pro-EU mobilizations in the Ukraine and clashes in Ferguson. A focus on narrative allows authors to compare such news stories with popular cultural depictions of the protester, in films and television series such as The Hunger Games, Robin Hood and Suffragette. Although focussed on the screen, the scope of the book is broad, given its exploration of images distributed worldwide. Written with both scholars and students in mind, Screening Protest will interest researchers in political science, sociology, media and film studies, as well as the general reader interested in current affairs.

Book Cultural Insurrection

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  • Author : Jonathan Nossiter
  • Publisher : Other Press, LLC
  • Release : 2019-05-21
  • ISBN : 1590518276
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Cultural Insurrection written by Jonathan Nossiter and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the director of Mondovino, a lively discussion of the expanding world of natural wine that considers the movement as a potential remedy for our current cultural crisis. What if, ten years from now, an artist--a filmmaker, for example--will have become as marginal and anachronistic as a blacksmith? What if the actors in the cultural world are on the brink of extinction, not about to disappear like prehistoric animals, but worse--submitting to the status quo? Absorbed by a marketplace that increasingly devalues true artistic work? In Cultural Insurrection, award-winning filmmaker and sommelier Jonathan Nossiter considers these questions and offers a solution inspired by the rebellious, innovative figures transforming the way we produce and consume wine. This new generation of artisans, working closely with the earth to create exceptional natural wines, has assumed the role of dissenters that artists have abandoned, and we should look to them in order to revitalize contemporary art.

Book Continental Theory Buffalo

Download or read book Continental Theory Buffalo written by David R. Castillo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on the transcontinental legacy of May 1968 to offer insightful readings of the cultural (d)evolution of the last fifty years. The volume contributors revisit, reclaim and reassess the "revolutionary" legacy of May 1968 in light of the urgency of the present and the future. Their essays are effective illustrations of the potential of such interpretive traditions as philosophy, literature and cultural criticism to run interference with (and offer alternatives to) the instrumentalist logic and predatory structures that are reducing the world to a collection of quantifiable and tradeable resources. The book will be of interest to cultural historians and theorists, media studies scholars, political scientists, and students of French and Francophone literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic.

Book Insurrection  Corruption   Murder in Early Vermont

Download or read book Insurrection Corruption Murder in Early Vermont written by Gary G. Shattuck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During America's Early Republic, the pastoral villages and forests of Vermont were anything but peaceful. Conflict raged along the Canadian border, as international tensions prompted Thomas Jefferson to ban American exports to France and Great Britain. Some Vermonters turned to smuggling. Federal seizure of a boat called the "Black Snake" went deadly wrong--three men were killed that day, and another died later in the state's first hanging execution. The outbreak of the War of 1812 brought thousands of troops, along with drunkenness, disease and a general disregard of civil rights, including the imposition of extra-legal military trials. Using his extensive knowledge of the law, author Gary Shattuck sheds new light on this riotous era.

Book From Enlightenment to Rebellion

Download or read book From Enlightenment to Rebellion written by James G. Buickerood and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays and a short story written to honor Christopher Fox of Notre Dame, arguably the most influential figure in Irish Studies for the past quarter century. The essays address topics in which Professor Fox has made his own enduring scholarly contributions, and subjects to which he has made enduring contributions through his academic leadership, from the development of library collections and important fellowships at his university to the institution of a global community of scholars in Irish Studies. The disciplines represented by the essays published here include English Literature, Irish Literature, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Librarianship, History, Intellectual History, Irish Folklore, Philosophy, and Documentary Film. Seven of the fifteen essays focus on topics at the intersection of Irish Studies and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fox’s own specialty. They include studies of Edmund Burke’s late-career view of the free market and social justice; the persistent influence of William Molyneux and Jonathan Swift in late eighteenth-century Irish patriots’ political vision; Swift’s conception of neighborliness in his fiction and sermons; the satirist’s illnesses and their bearing on his social relationships; the anthropogenic dimension of Alexander Pope’s Dunciad; the reception of Lucretius’ De rerum natura in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Isles; and an examination of the conception of the self in the philosophical work of John Locke and Charles Mein. The remainder cover texts and issues such as the role of Continental influence on medieval Irish epic, the relations of poets and lords in early modern Ireland, perspectives on writers in Irish folklore, and the relations of social class and linguistic change in the modern novel. There is as well a pair of essays on the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising, one examining the role of the theater in the participants’ conceptions of that event, the other discussing the creation of the award winning recent documentary series of which Fox was executive producer, 1916: The Irish Rebellion. The contributions open with a Forward by the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, and conclude with a new short story by the Irish novelist Patrick McCabe. The book includes a Select Bibliography of the publications of Professor Fox, and an Index.

Book Architecture  Media  Populism    and Violence

Download or read book Architecture Media Populism and Violence written by Graham Cairns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Storming of the Capitol’ was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its ‘final act’, bore all the hallmarks of a 21st century form of populism and media-politico spectacle that may yet come to dominate the political scene in the US, and worldwide, for years to come. The questions that such events raise are complex, varied and operative across a multitude of disciplines. This book engages with these vexed questions in the broad fields of politics and media, but does so, uniquely, through the prism of architecture. This book does not, however, limit its view to the recent events in Washington DC or the United States. Rather, it seeks to use those events as the starting point for a critique of architecture in the tapestry of mediated forms of protest and ‘political action’ more generally. Each chapter draws on case studies from across timeframes and across nations. The book sharpens our critique of the relationship between direct political action, its media representation and the role it assigns to architecture – as played out globally in the age of mass media. In doing so, it opens up broader debates about the past, present and future roles of architecture as a political tool in the context of international political systems now dominated by changing and unpredictable uses of media, and characterised by an increasingly volatile and at times violent form of political activism. It is essential reading for any student or researcher engaging with these questions.

Book First Measures of the Coming Insurrection

Download or read book First Measures of the Coming Insurrection written by Eric Hazan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a ‘democratic consensus’ that has, since the 1970s, plagued and suppressed any sparks of revolutionary potential. It is time to prepare for the coming insurrection. In this bold and beautifully written book, Eric Hazan and Kamo provide a short account of what is to be done in the aftermath of a regime’s demise: how to prevent any power from restoring itself and how to reorganize society without a central authority and according to the people’s needs. They argue that neither a leadership reshuffle, in the guise of constitutional progress, nor a transition period between a capitalist social order and a communist horizon will do. First Measures of the Coming Insurrection is more than the voice of a new generation of revolutionaries; it is the manual for the coming global revolution.

Book Radical Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Anker
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0520249100
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Radical Light written by Steve Anker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb collection, as exciting, in many ways, as the works it chronicles."--Akira Mizuta Lippit, author of Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)

Book History of the Irish Insurrection of 1798

Download or read book History of the Irish Insurrection of 1798 written by Edward Hay and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insurrection  Holding History

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  • Author : Robert O'Hara
  • Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
  • Release : 2015-04-10
  • ISBN : 1559368306
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Insurrection Holding History written by Robert O'Hara and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication of Insurrection, a remarkable debut of a major new African-American theatre artist. The playwright won the distinguished Oppenheim Award from Newsday for best new playwright of 1997. Insurrection is a chilling exploration of the roots of the Nat Turner slave insurrection through the eyes of a contemporary black man who is transported back through time with his grandfather.

Book The Other Rebellion

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  • Author : Eric Van Young
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780804748216
  • Pages : 722 pages

Download or read book The Other Rebellion written by Eric Van Young and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that in addition to being a war of national liberation, Mexico's movement toward independence from Spain was also an internal war pitting classes and ethnic groups against each other, an intensely localized struggle by rural people, especially Indians, for the preservation of their communities.

Book The Flamethrowers

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  • Author : Rachel Kushner
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-01-14
  • ISBN : 1439142017
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Flamethrowers written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy.