Author: Diane C. Fujino
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: critical, american, studies, kochiyama, yuri, struggle, revolutionary, life, heartbeat
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2005-04-24
List price: $21.50
ISBN-10: 0816645930
ISBN-13: 9780816645930

On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist began much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this courageous woman, the most prominent Asian American activist to emerge during the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with Kochiyama’s family, friends, and the subject herself, Diane C. Fujino traces Kochiyama’s life from an "all-American" childhood to her achievements as a tireless defender of - and fighte

Author: Thomas Lamarre
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: animation, theory, media, machine, anime
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-10-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0816651558
ISBN-13: 9780816651559

Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in The Anime Machine he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media.The Anime Machine defines the visual characteristics

Author: Andrea Liss
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: maternal, art, feminist
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-01-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0816646236
ISBN-13: 9780816646234

Book DescriptionFeminist motherhood is a surprisingly unexplored subject. In fact, feminism and motherhood have been often thought of as incompatible. Profound, provocative, and innovative, Feminist Art and the Maternal is the first work to critically examine the dilemmas and promises of representing feminist motherhood in contemporary art and visual culture. Andrea Liss skillfully incorporates theory with passionate personal reflections on the maternal, and in doing so she advances a fresh and necessary perspective on both feminism and art. Offering new research on works by well-known and

Author: Stephanie Smith
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: scab, nigger, cyber, bombshell, sucker, words, bloomers, household
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0816645531
ISBN-13: 9780816645534

Looking in detail at words that “treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge,” Household Words is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines six words—bloomer, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, and cyber—and explores how these words with their contemporary “universal” mean

Authors:Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg,
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: california, lectures, writing, isherwood
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0816646937
ISBN-13: 9780816646937

In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.” During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and on spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these public addresses together to reveal a distinctly—and surprisingly—American Isherwood.   Given at a critical time in Isherwood’s career, these lectures mark the era when he turned from f

Author: Mark Fenster
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: american, culture, power, secrecy, theories, conspiracy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-07-29
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0816654948
ISBN-13: 9780816654949

JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Queen Elizabeth II, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton-all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. In this enlightening tour of conspiracy theories, Mark Fenster guides readers through this shadowy world and analyzes its complex role in American culture and politics. Fenster argues that conspiracy theories are a form of popular political interpretation and contends that understanding how they circulate through mass culture helps us better understand our society as a whole. To that end, he discusses Richard

Author: Elizabeth Chin
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: consumer, culture, american, kids, power, black, purchasing
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2001-04
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0816635110
ISBN-13: 9780816635115

Race and Ethnic Studies/Social Issues An exposé of the realities facing poor black children in our consumer socieity. What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society. In order to mo