wyszukanych pozycji: 36
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The Warrior Women of Television: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the New Female Body in Popular Media
ISBN: 9780820462196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series: La Femme Nikita, Aeon Flux, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Detailed readings focus on the ways the structure and content of each series work to create specific understandings of the body that are in contrast to those of male-centered action texts. Arguing that television texts mediate larger cultural concerns, this book considers the feminist implications of the series and uses insights from critical writings on contemporary culture and the body to...
The Warrior Women of Television examines contemporary representations of the female action hero in three series: La Femme Nikita, Aeo...
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186,70 |
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Roots & Routes: Bosnian Adolescent Refugees in New York City
ISBN: 9780820469157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Roots and Routes is a poignant study of the social integration and identity formation of female refugee youth. Grounded in the practical experiences of adolescent Bosnian refugees living in New York City, the book gives voice to these youths experiences as they develop a sense of self in their newly adopted homes. Jacqueline Mosselson explores the tensions of affiliation that this process of identity formation generates as the refugees seek to understand ties that bind them to their past, their homeland, and their cultural and geographical roots. Of central concern is the way the...
Roots and Routes is a poignant study of the social integration and identity formation of female refugee youth. Grounded in the practical experi...
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206,88 |
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Forever Young: Essays on Young Adult Fictions
ISBN: 9780820497181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores young adult fictions stories about being young, staying young and sometimes never wanting to grow up. Looking at controversial novels by Francesca Lia Block, at sex and race in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and at the online world of fans and censors, Chris Richards argues that attempts to classify and regulate what counts as young adult have failed, and shows how youth as intense, exciting and tormented draws audiences unconstrained by age. Throughout the book, the narratives of life as lived by the young emerge as the stuff of the self made and remade in reading,...
This book explores young adult fictions stories about being young, staying young and sometimes never wanting to grow up. Looking at controversial nove...
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206,88 |
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The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation
ISBN: 9780415913003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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222,15 |
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Global Auteurs: Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, Von Trier, and Winterbottom
ISBN: 9781433101458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.
With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book s insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodovar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von... Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and M...
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594,58 |
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Global Auteurs: Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, Von Trier, and Winterbottom
ISBN: 9781433101342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom.
With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book s insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodovar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von... Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and M...
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206,88 |
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Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters
ISBN: 9780820471228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through a series of sharp and insightful essays on a wide range of critical thinkers, Phillip M. Richards traces what he sees as an erosion of moral reflection in African American literary culture a process that has left contemporary black academic criticism socially, politically, and culturally hollow. Exploring the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael Dyson, Karla Holloway and others, Black Heart sets forth the rhetorical strategies of...
Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through ...
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206,88 |
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Moral Engagement in Public Life: Theorists for Contemporary Ethics
ISBN: 9780820457666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ethical evaluation of language and action has relied historically on the western, monocultural assumptions of classical ethical theory. But persistent contemporary critiques undermine the moral force of ethical agency as individualistic, autonomous, and rationalistic. Contributors to Moral Engagement in Public Life take up the search for intellectual resources in light of these challenges by explicating twelve theorists in moral philosophy and communication ethics. Two classical theorists, Aristotle and Confucius, provide longstanding themes of ongoing relevance and serve as a point of...
Ethical evaluation of language and action has relied historically on the western, monocultural assumptions of classical ethical theory. But persistent...
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206,88 |
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Elite Schools in Globalising Circumstances: New Conceptual Directions and Connections
ISBN: 9781138294943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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246,83 |
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Elite Schools in Globalising Circumstances: New Conceptual Directions and Connections
ISBN: 9781138100930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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765,33 |
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Race, Identity, and Representation in Education
ISBN: 9780415949934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This second edition focuses on the most pressing contemporary issues surrounding race and education. Original essays provide background information on the complex intersection of race with the dynamic variables of popular culture, identity formation and state/public policy creation in the new millennium.
This second edition focuses on the most pressing contemporary issues surrounding race and education. Original essays provide background information on...
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306,09 |
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Race, Identity, and Representation in Education
ISBN: 9780415949927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This stunning new edition retains the book's broad aims, intended audience, and multidisciplinary approach. New chapters take into account the more current backdrop of globalization, particularly events such as 9/11, and attendant developments that make a reconsideration of race relations in education quite urgent.
This stunning new edition retains the book's broad aims, intended audience, and multidisciplinary approach. New chapters take into account the more cu...
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790,02 |
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Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality
ISBN: 9780791456644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Offering new and unique approaches bridging the gap between cultural analysis and governmentality studies in the United States, this book opens up new lines of inquiry into cultural practices and offers fresh perspectives on Foucault's writings and their implications for cultural studies. It provides critical frameworks to analyze cultural practices and strategies of governing as ways of understanding the present. It also broadens the theater of intellectual debates over "culture and governing" studies from their current locales in Australia and Great Britain to the United States.
Offering new and unique approaches bridging the gap between cultural analysis and governmentality studies in the United States, this book opens up new...
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150,73 |
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World of Contradiction
ISBN: 9781966214892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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325,76 |
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Civilizational Collapse and the Philosophy of Post-Apocalyptical Survival
ISBN: 9781636673608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The collapse of civilization, the end of the world as we know it, has long been a cultural imaginary, but has rarely been as topical as it is today. Beyond the phantasmagoria of violence, depression and despair, the conviction of being doomed has always been a challenge to imagine a new, post-apocalyptic world, be it utopian or dystopian. Beyond questions of immediate survival, there is a growing concern about how to educate humanity for a new life after the end of this world. In this volume, the editors, Michael A. Peters and Thomas Meier, renowned scholars of educational and apocalyptic...
The collapse of civilization, the end of the world as we know it, has long been a cultural imaginary, but has rarely been as topical as it is today. B...
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290,90 |
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Class Choreographies: Elite Schools and Globalization
ISBN: 9781137549631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. Elite schools around the world are positioned at the intersecting pinnacles of various scales, systems and regimes of social, cultural, political and economic power.
Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. Elite schools around the world are positioned at the intersecting pinnacles of va...
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121,58 |