Author: Alisa S. Lebow
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: evidence, visible, jewish, person, first
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-06-18
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 0816643547
ISBN-13: 9780816643547

Documentaries have increasingly used the first person, with a number of prominent filmmakers finding critical and commercial success with this intimate approach. Jewish filmmakers have particularly thrived in this genre, using it to explore disparate definitions of the self in relation to the larger groups of family and community. In First Person Jewish, Alisa S. Lebow examines more than a dozen films from Jewish artists to reveal how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively (and at times unwittingly) with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. Focusing

Author: Scott Nygren
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: unfolding, history, cinema, japanese, frames, time
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-14
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0816647089
ISBN-13: 9780816647088

Until 1951, when Kurosawa’s Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema could no longer be ignored. In Time Frames, Scott Nygren explores how Japanese film criticism and history has been written both within and beyond Japan, before and after Rashomon. He takes up the central question of which, and whose, Japan do critics and historians mean when reviewing the country’s cinema—an issue complicated

Author: Meng Yue
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: empires, edges, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-06-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816644128
ISBN-13: 9780816644124

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly

Author: Peter Sloterdijk
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: history, literature, theory, materialism, stage, nietzsche, thinker
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1989-06-30
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0816617651
ISBN-13: 9780816617654

Author: Sarita Echavez See
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: art, performance, american, filipino, eye, decolonized
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-11-13
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0816653194
ISBN-13: 9780816653195

From the late 1980s to the present, artists of Filipino descent in the United States have produced a challenging and creative movement. In The Decolonized Eye, Sarita Echavez See shows how these artists have engaged with the complex aftermath of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines.Focusing on artists working in New York and California, See examines the overlapping artistic and aesthetic practices and concerns of filmmaker Angel Shaw, painter Manuel Ocampo, installation artist Paul Pfeiffer, comedian Rex Navarrete, performance artist Nicky Paraiso, and sculptor Reanne Estrada to explain the rea

Author: Jennifer Sherman
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: rural, america, family, morality, don, poverty, work
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-10-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0816659052
ISBN-13: 9780816659050

When the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic understanding of poor rural Americans, persuasively arguing that the growing cultural significance of moral values is a reasonable and inevitable response to economic collapse and political powerlessness.Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t is based on the intimate interviews and in-depth

Authors:Abdi Roble, Doug Rutledge, Somali Documentary Projec
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: journey, diaspora, somali
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-09-12
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0816654573
ISBN-13: 9780816654574

Book DescriptionSince 2003, photographer Abdi Roble and writer Doug Rutledge have been documenting the lives of Somali immigrants in the United States and of the people forced into the vast refugee camps that were set up in Kenya in the wake of the 1991 civil war in Somalia. In The Somali Diaspora, Roble, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 1989, and Rutledge trace the journey of a family from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, home to more than 150,000 Somalis, to new lives in the United States. The Somali Diaspora follows the family of Abdisalem, his wife Ijabo, and their t