Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon why and how video has become the medium for so much AIDS activism she also tries to make sense of the bigger picture: How is this work different from mainstream television? How does it alter what we think of the media s form and function? The result is an eloquent and vital assessment of the role media activism plays in the development of...
Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political v...
In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings a leading historian of contemporary East Asia provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By offering correctives to widely held yet largely inaccurate assessments of the affairs of this region, Parallax Visions shows how relations between the United States, Japan, Vietnam, North and South Korea, China, and Taiwan have been structured by their perceptions and misperceptions of each...
In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings a leading historian of...
No More Separate Spheres challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of male public and female private spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints, this collection examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered unexamined in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on the public sphere. It exemplifies new ways of analyzing gender, breaks through old paradigms, and offers a primer on feminist thinking for the...
No More Separate Spheres challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of male public ...
New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story. Beginning with government-appointed historians' first publications in 1954 and following their efforts over the next 30 years, Patricia M. Pelley surveys this daunting historical process - and in doing so, opens a wide window on the historical forces and tensions that have gone into shaping...
New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese hi...
