Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthrolopogy and history, the book examines food scenes in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become sites of social contests, and to reveal how food communicates values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities, and to American society.
Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthrolopogy and history, the book examines food scenes in selected films to rev...
Examining old media treatment of crime legends: news reports, fictional film and television depictions, and new media interactive discussions: versions and discussions circulating in Internet newsgroups and via electronic mail lists, this text examines a social context vastly changed from the height of rumour research in the mid-20th century.
Examining old media treatment of crime legends: news reports, fictional film and television depictions, and new media interactive discussions: version...
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West - the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state ...
This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, how they articulated the platform, and contributed to its exposure by writing and publishing their ideas, arguments and concerns. While all Free Love participants claimed benefits and freedoms from the practice, this book is the first to compare the benefits and political agendas experienced by the male participants with those experienced by the females. The importance of this work lies in its potential to inform current political resistance...
This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, ho...
