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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (87)
  • 2010-2014  (87)
  • Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780472118717
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 346 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Uniform Title: Le communisme au quotidien
    DDC: 335.430943/1
    Keywords: Communism History ; Germany (East) Social conditions ; Deutschland ; Staatsunternehmen
    Abstract: Examines how East German citizens and workers experienced the conditions created by the socialist dictatorial state, focusing on state enterprises as a contact zone between state and society
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : why write about the history of the GDRParty power and the limits of domination -- State enterprises as socialist institutions : politics and culture -- From the individual to the community -- Social differences and tensions in the people's enterprises -- Youth in socialist production -- Women at work -- The spirit and act of giving -- Socialist timescapes and everyday rituals.
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  • 2
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9780472029983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 202 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Absher, Amy The black musician and the white city
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    Keywords: African Americans Illinois ; Chicago ; Music ; History and criticism ; Popular music Illinois ; Chicago ; History and criticism ; Popular music Social aspects ; Illinois ; Chicago ; History ; 20th century ; Music and race Illinois ; Chicago ; History ; 20th century ; African American musicians Illinois ; Chicago ; Music trade Illinois ; Chicago ; History ; 20th century ; African American musicians Labor unions ; Illinois ; Chicago ; History ; 20th century ; Musicians Labor unions ; Illinois ; Chicago ; History ; 20th century
    Abstract: Musicians and the segregated city : Chicago in the early 1900s-1930s -- From south to south side : musicians in 1940s Chicago -- Redefining the music industry : independent music in Chicago, 1948-1953 -- From south side to the south and the nation, 1954-1963 -- "The fact remains ... we are negroes" : dissonance and the desegregation of Chicago's musicians' union, 1963-1967
    Abstract: Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s. Absher takes the history beyond the study of jazz and blues by examining the significant role that classically trained black musicians played in building the Chicago South Side community. By acknowledging the presence and importance of classical musicians, Absher argues that black migrants in Chicago had diverse education and economic backgrounds but found common cause in the city’s music community.
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 9780472119363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 p.)
    Abstract: An ethnographic study of The New York Times’ business desk provides a unique vantage point to see the future for news in the digital age
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472119363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 p.)
    Series Statement: The New Media World
    Abstract: An ethnographic study of The New York Times’ business desk provides a unique vantage point to see the future for news in the digital age
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  • 5
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472904112 , 9780472003785 , 9780472052325 , 9780472072323
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy
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    ISBN: 9780472904082 , 9780472052349 , 9780472072347
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim’s James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate the project of queering Baldwin and his work. Brim argues that Baldwin animates and, in contrast, disrupts both the black gay literary tradition and the queer theoretical enterprise that have claimed him. More paradoxically, even as Baldwin’s fiction brilliantly succeeds in imagining queer intersections of race and sexuality, it simultaneously exhibits striking queer failures, whether exploiting gay love or erasing black lesbian desire. Brim thus argues that Baldwin’s work is deeply marked by ruptures of the “unqueer” into transcendent queer thought—and that readers must sustain rather than override this paradoxical dynamic within acts of queer imagination
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  • 7
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9780472120543
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sedlmaier, Alexander, 1969 - Consumption and violence
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    Keywords: Political violence Germany (West) ; History ; Protest movements Germany (West) ; History ; Radicalism Germany (West) ; History ; Government, Resistance to Germany (West) ; History ; Consumption (Economics) Political aspects ; Germany (West) ; History ; Capitalism Political aspects ; Germany (West) ; History ; Social change Germany (West) ; History ; HISTORY / Europe / Germany ; Germany (West) Politics and government ; Germany (West) Social conditions ; Germany (West) Economic conditions ; Deutschland ; Konsumgesellschaft ; Protestbewegung ; Geschichte 1955-1990
    Abstract: "Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence : Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters' approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of individual shortcomings, but emerges in relation to major societal changes, i.e., the unprecedented growth of consumption. This new perspective sheds important light on violence and radical protest in post-war Germany, as previous books have failed to examine to what extent these forms of resistance should be regarded as reactions to changing regimes of provision. Continuing the recently growing interest in the interdependence of countercultures and consumer society, the focus on violence gives the argument a unique twist, making the book thought-provoking and engaging
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9780472120475
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750–1837 examines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England were simultaneously Electors of Hanover. While scholars have generally focused on the political and diplomatic implications of the Personal Union, Alessa Johns offers a new perspective by tracing sociocultural repercussions and investigating how, in the period of the American and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated distinct discourses of liberty even though they were nonrevolutionary countries. British and German reformists—feminists in particular—used the period’s expanded pathways of cultural transfer to generate new discourses as well as to articulate new views of what personal freedom, national character, and international interaction might be
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9780472900893
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment—and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic paradigm of peacebuilding. Key international stakeholders—from activists to politicians, humanitarian agencies to financial institutions—characterize disparate sites as “weak,” “fragile,” or “failed” states and, as a result, prescribe peacebuilding techniques that paradoxically disable effective management of post-conflict spaces while perpetuating neoliberal political and economic conditions. Treating all efforts to represent post-conflict environments as problematic, the goal becomes understanding the underlying connection between post-conflict conditions and the actions and interventions of peacebuilding technocracies
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  • 10
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472071999
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 p.)
    Keywords: Wildlife: general interest
    Abstract: Encounters between the species in an anthology of lively solo performances and commentary
    Note: English
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472120543
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters’ approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of individual shortcomings, but emerges in relation to major societal changes, i.e., the unprecedented growth of consumption. This new perspective sheds important light on violence and radical protest in post-war Germany, as previous books have failed to examine to what extent these forms of resistance should be regarded as reactions to changing regimes of provision. Continuing the recently growing interest in the interdependence of countercultures and consumer society, the focus on violence gives the argument a unique twist, making the book thought-provoking and engaging
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  • 12
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472072439
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 p.)
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Media
    Abstract: Based on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century. A focused multisited cultural analysis that reflects on the symbiotic relationship between the local, the national, and the global, it also explores how individuals’ consumption of global media shapes their imagination of both faraway places and their own local lives. Chosen for their continuing influence, historical relationships, and different geopolitical positions, the case sites of France, Japan, and the United States provide opportunities to move beyond common dichotomies between East and West, or United States and “the rest.” From a theoretical point of view, Imagining the Global endeavors to answer the question of how one locale can help us understand another locale. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources—several years of fieldwork; extensive participant observation; more than 80 formal interviews with some 160 media consumers (and occasionally producers) in France, Japan, and the United States; and analyses of media in different languages—author Fabienne Darling-Wolf considers how global culture intersects with other significant identity factors, including gender, race, class, and geography. Imagining the Global investigates who gets to participate in and who gets excluded from global media representation, as well as how and why the distinction matters.
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    ISBN: 9780472036158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 p.)
    Keywords: Fantasy
    Abstract: Following his celebrated debut collection Super Flat Times, Matthew Derby delivers a disturbing new set of stories that plunges us into a lonely heartland of misfits, outcasts, and would-be assassins who lurk in the shadows, searching for connection and meaning in all the wrong places
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    ISBN: 9780472120024
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: "Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn’t compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies."
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    ISBN: 9780472036165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 p.)
    Abstract: A story about the passed-along People, about how we are the same and how we are different, about how we become who we are and how we protect our most private places from the cold glare of all that we cannot control
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s to 1950s.Absher takes the history beyond the study of jazz and blues by examining the significant role that classically trained black musicians played in building the Chicago South Side community. By acknowledging the presence and importance of classical musicians, Absher argues that black migrants in Chicago had diverse education and economic backgrounds but found common cause in the city’s music community
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
    ISBN: 9780472072156
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (165 p.)
    DDC: 302.230948
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    Keywords: Media
    Abstract: A dynamic examination of the media industry in the Nordic countries during the transition to today's digital environment...
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472072583
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (129 p.)
    Abstract: An eccentric, otherworldly guide to the domestic spaces Americans inhabit
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  • 19
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | New York : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9780472120475 , 0472120476 , 9780472900930 , 0472900935 , 9780472119387 , 0472119389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.4094090/33
    Keywords: Geschichte 1750-1837 ; Kulturvermittlung ; Feminismus ; European literature 18th century ; Culture diffusion History 18th century ; Social change History 18th century ; Feminism History 18th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM Feminist ; Civilization ; Culture diffusion ; European literature ; Feminism ; International relations ; Social change ; Großbritannien ; Deutschland ; Germany Relations ; Great Britain Relations ; Germany Civilization 18th century ; Great Britain Civilization 18th century ; Literature ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An examination of British and German processes of cultural transfer, as spearheaded by feminist reformists, from 1714 to 1837.
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    ISBN: 9780472120024 , 0472120026 , 1306463637 , 9781306463638 , 9780472900954 , 0472900951 , 9780472119196 , 0472119192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations
    Series Statement: Social history, popular culture, and politics in germany
    DDC: 302.23/45
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    Keywords: Deutscher Fernsehfunk History ; Geschichte 1949-1961 ; Fernsehen ; Sozialismus ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Darstellung ; Television and politics ; Television Social aspects ; Television broadcasting History ; Socialism and society ; HISTORY Germany ; SOCIAL SCIENCE Media Studies ; PERFORMING ARTS Television ; History & Criticism ; PSYCHOLOGY Social Psychology ; Socialism and society ; Television and politics ; Television broadcasting ; Television Social aspects ; Deutschland ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans' view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its communicative and entertainment value. She explores the difficulties GDR authorities had defining and executing a clear vision of the society they hoped to establish, and she explains how television helped to stabilize GDR society in a way that ultimately worked against the utopian vision the authorities thought they were cultivating. Gumbert challenges those who would dismiss East German television as a tool of repression that couldn't compete with the West or capture the imagination of East Germans. Instead, she shows how, by the early 1960s, television was a model of the kind of socialist realist art that could appeal to authorities and audiences. Ultimately, this socialist vision was overcome by the challenges that the international market in media products and technologies posed to nation-building in the postwar period. A history of ideas and perceptions examining both real and mediated historical conditions, Envisioning Socialism considers television as a technology, an institution, and a medium of social relations and cultural knowledge. The book will be welcomed in undergraduate and graduate courses in German and media history, the history of postwar Socialism, and the history of science and technologies"--...
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472119097
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
    DDC: 363.325/156
    Keywords: Law
    Abstract: It is commonly believed that a state facing a terrorist threat responds with severe legislation that compromises civil liberties in favour of national security. Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal democracies— the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand— over the past 15 years. He examines each nation’s development and implementation of counterterrorism law, specifically in the areas of information gathering, the definition of terrorist offenses, due process for the accused, detention, and torture and other forms of coercive questioning. Douglas finds that terrorist attacks elicit pressures for quick responses, which often allow national governments to accrue additional powers. But emergencies are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for such laws, which may persist even after fears have eased. He argues that responses are influenced by institutional interests and prior beliefs and are complicated when the exigencies of office and beliefs point in different directions. He also argues that citizens are wary of government’s impingement on civil liberties and that courts exercise their capacity to restrain the legislative and executive branches. Douglas concludes that the worst anti-terror excesses have taken place outside of, rather than within, the law and that the legacy of 9/11 includes both laws that expand government powers and judicial decisions that limit those very powers. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | The Hague : OAPEN Foundation
    ISBN: 9780472900893 , 9780472120390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 237 Seiten)
    DDC: 303.69
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    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472119370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (347 p.)
    DDC: 907.1
    Keywords: Education ; Teaching of a specific subject ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tools is limited—many historians and history educators have resisted adopting them because they fail to see how digital tools supplement and even improve upon conventional tools (such as books). In Pastplay, a collection of essays by leading history and humanities researchers and teachers, editor Kevin Kee works to address these concerns head-on. How should we use technology? Playfully, Kee contends. Why? Because doing so helps us think about the past in new ways; through the act of creating technologies, our understanding of the past is re-imagined and developed. From the insights of numerous scholars and teachers, Pastplay argues that we should play with technology in history because doing so enables us to see the past in new ways by helping us understand how history is created; honoring the roots of research, teaching, and technology development; requiring us to model our thoughts; and then allowing us to build our own understanding
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    Abstract: In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and fragmentation is the consequence of a chain of reactions and counterreactions to policy decisions dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when preschool advocates did not achieve their vision for a comprehensive national program but did manage to foster initiatives at both the state and national levels. Over time, beneficiaries of these initiatives and officials with jurisdiction over preschool education have become ardent defenders of the status quo. Today, advocates of greater government involvement must take on a diverse and entrenched set of constituencies resistant to policy change
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472028936 , 0472900269 , 0472071912 , 0472051911 , 9780472071913 , 9780472900268 , 9780472051915 , 9780472028931
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (189 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Landmark Video Games
    Uniform Title: Digital culture books
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pinchbeck, Daniel Doom
    Keywords: Doom 64 (Game) ; GAMES ; Board ; GAMES ; General ; Doom 64 (Game)
    Abstract: 11. Endgame: Why DOOM Is a Masterpiece of Game Design12. A Handful of Vertebrae and a Headful of Mad: Modding DOOM; 13. Not if I Frag You First: DOOM Multiplayer; 14. Fucked in the Dark: Ports, Sequels, and Other Unholy Offspring; 15. You Gibbed It Here First: DOOM as the Prototypical FPS Game; 16. SCARY DARKFAST: The Legacy of DOOM; Notes; Glossary; References; Further Reading; Index.
    Abstract: In December 1993, gaming changed forever. id Software's seminal shooter DOOM was released and it shook the foundations of the medium. This is a book about what is considered the most important first-person game ever made; about the blueprint that has defined one of the most successful genres of digital gaming. Pinbeck brings together the complete story of DOOM for the first time. It sets the scene with a discussion of the early days of first-person gaming and the video game studio system. It discusses the prototypes and the groundbreaking technology that drove the game forwards, and offers a detailed analysis of gameplay and level design. This is followed by sections on DOOM's contributions to wider gaming culture: online multiplay and the mod scene, and consideration of the many ports and sequels the game spawned. This close analysis sets the scene for an extensive discussion of the first-person gaming genre, focusing upon DOOM's status as a foundational title, using this analysis to offer a means of better understanding how the genre has developed since 1993. Pinchbeck draws extensively from primary data: from the game itself, from the massive fan culture surrounding the title, and from interviews with the developers who made it. It is this level of access to the process of development through the reflections of some of gaming's most celebrated individuals that gives the book a very particular focus and drive. It aims not only to be the definitive work on DOOM, but a snapshot of a period of gaming history, a manifesto for a development ethos, and a celebration of game culture at its best
    Abstract: Introduction: There Are a Lot of People Totally Opposed to Violence. They're All Dead.; 1. Eva! Auf Wiedersehen! : The Birth of a Genre; 2. The Speed of Light Sucks: The Rise of id; 3. Beefy Chunklets from Bible to Beta; 4. The Fastest Texture Mapping in Town: id Tech 1; 5. DOOM by Numbers; 6. A Soundtrack for Mayhem; 7. All Hell Breaks Loose: Launch, Sales, and Critical Reception; 8. A "Shot-by-Shot" Analysis of DOOM, Part 1: Knee Deep in the Dead; 9. A "Shot-by-Shot" Analysis of DOOM, Part 2: The Shores of Hell; 10. A "Shot-by-Shot" Analysis of DOOM, Part 3: Inferno.
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    ISBN: 0472029479 , 0472900250 , 047207198X , 0472051989 , 129960899X , 9780472029471 , 9780472071982 , 9780472900251 , 9780472051984 , 9781299608993
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 pages) , illustrations (chiefly color)
    Series Statement: Digital humanities
    Uniform Title: Digital culture books
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hacking the academy
    Keywords: Communication in learning and scholarship Technological innovations ; Scholarly electronic publishing ; Digital humanities ; Humanities Digital libraries ; Humanities Research ; EDUCATION ; Higher ; Communication in learning and scholarship ; Technological innovations ; Digital humanities ; Humanities ; Digital libraries ; Humanities ; Research ; Scholarly electronic publishing ; Geesteswetenschappen ; Digitaliseren ; REFERENCE ; Questions & Answers ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society? As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have existed for decades, even centuries, aren't becoming obsolete. Every aspect of scholarly infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked. Sympathetic scholars of traditionally disparate disciplines are canceling their association memberships and building their own networks on Facebook and Twitter. Journals are being compiled automatically from self-published blog posts. Newly minted Ph. D.s are forgoing the tenure track for alternative academic careers that blur the lines between research, teaching, and service. Graduate students are looking beyond the categories of the traditional CV and building expansive professional identities and popular followings through social media. Educational technologists are "punking" established technology vendors by rolling out their own open source infrastructure. Hacking the Academy will both explore and contribute to ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure for a new millennium
    Abstract: Why "Hacking"? /Tad Suiter --Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps /Jason Baird Jackson --Burn the Boats/Books /David Parry --Reinventing the Academic Journal /Jo Guldi --Reading the Writing /Michael O'Malley --Voices : Blogging /Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Mark Sample, Daniel J. Cohen --The Crisis of Audience and the Open Access Solution /John Unsworth --Open Access Publishing /Kathleen Fitzpatrick --Open Access and Scholarly Values : A Conversation /Daniel J. Cohen, Stephen Ramsay, Kathleen Fitzpatrick --Voices : Sharing One's Research /Chad Black, Mark Sample --Making Digital Scholarship Count /Mills Kelly --Theory, Method, and Digital Humanities /Tom Scheinfeldt --Dear Students /Gideon Burton --Lectures are Bullshit /Jeff Jarvis --From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able /Michael Wesch --Voices : Classroom Engagement /Mills Kelly, David Doria, Rey Junco --Digital Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum /Jeff McClurken, Jeremy Boggs, Adrianne Wadewitz, Anne Ellen Geller, Jon Beasley-Murray --What's Wrong with Writing Essays : A Conversation /Mark Sample and Kelly Schrum --Assessment versus Innovation /Cathy Davidson --A Personal Cyberinfrastructure /Gardner Campbell --Voices : Learning Management Systems /Matt Gold, Jim Groom --Hacking the Dissertation /Anastasia Salter --How to Read a Book in One Hour /Larry Cebula --The Absent Presence : A Conversation /Brian Croxall and David Parry --Uninvited Guests : Twitter at Invitation-only Events /Bethany Nowviskie --Unconferences /Ethan Watrall, James Calder, Jeremy Boggs --Voices : Twitter at Conferences /Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Jason B. Jones, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Amanda French --The Entropic Library /Andrew Ashton --The Wrong Business for Libraries /Christine Madsen --Re-imagining Academic Archives /Christopher J. Prom --Interdisciplinary Centers and Spaces /Stephen Ramsay and Adam Turner --Take an Elective /Sharon Leon --Voices : Interdisciplinarity /Ethan Watrall, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry --An Open Letter to the Forces of Change /Jennifer Howard --The Trouble with Digital Culture /Tim Carmody.
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    ISBN: 9780472071982
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 p.)
    Keywords: Creative writing & creative writing guides ; Higher & further education, tertiary education
    Abstract: "On May 21, 2010, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt posted the following provocative questions online: “Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?” As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have existed for decades, even centuries, aren’t becoming obsolete. Every aspect of scholarly infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked. Sympathetic scholars of traditionally disparate disciplines are canceling their association memberships and building their own networks on Facebook and Twitter. Journals are being compiled automatically from self-published blog posts. Newly minted PhDs are forgoing the tenure track for alternative academic careers that blur the lines between research, teaching, and service. Graduate students are looking beyond the categories of the traditional CV and building expansive professional identities and popular followings through social media. Educational technologists are “punking” established technology vendors by rolling out their own open source infrastructure. Here, in Hacking the Academy, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt have gathered a sampling of the answers to their initial questions from scores of engaged academics who care deeply about higher education. These are the responses from a wide array of scholars, presenting their thoughts and approaches with a vibrant intensity, as they explore and contribute to ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure for a new millennium."
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9780472028924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 236 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Editorial theory and literary criticism
    DDC: 810.9/896073
    Keywords: American literature ; American literature ; African Americans ; African Americans in literature ; Literature publishing ; Criticism, Textual ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Literatur ; Rassismus
    Abstract: "From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Publishing Blackness aims to project African Americanist scholarship into the discourse of textual scholarship, provoking further work in a vital area of literary study
    Abstract: Contents -- Introduction, George Hutchinson and John K. Young -- The Brief Wondrous Life of the Anglo-African Magazine -- or, Antebellum African American Editorial Practice and Its Afterlives, Ivy G. Wilson -- Representing African American Literature -- or, Tradition against the Individual Talent, George Hutchinson -- âoeQuite as human as it is Negroâ?: Subpersons and Textual Property in Native Son and Black Boy, John K. Young -- The Colors of Modernism: Publishing African Americans, Jews, and Irish in the 1920s, George Bornstein -- More than McKay and Guillén: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontempsâ?s The Poetry of the Negro (1949), Ifeoma Kiddoe NwankwoEditorial Federalism: The Hoover Raids, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Origins of FBI Literary Surveillance, William J. Maxwell -- Loosening the Straightjacket: Rethinking Racial Representation in African American Anthologies, Gene Andrew Jarrett -- âoeLet the World Be a Black Poemâ?: Some Problems of Recollecting and Editing Black Arts Texts, James W. Smethurst -- Textual Productions of Black Aesthetics Unbound, Margo Natalie Crawford -- Select BibliographyContributors -- Index
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472029916 , 0472900242 , 0472072064 , 0472052063 , 1306135362 , 9781306135368 , 9780472072064 , 9780472900244 , 9780472052066 , 9780472029914
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , illustrations
    Series Statement: Digital humanities
    Uniform Title: Digital culture books
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Writing history in the digital age
    Keywords: History Methodology ; Academic writing Data processing ; History Research ; Data processing ; Historiography ; Electronic data processing ; HISTORY ; Reference ; HISTORY ; General ; Academic writing ; Data processing ; Electronic data processing ; Historiography ; History ; Methodology ; History ; Research ; Data processing
    Abstract: "Writing History in the Digital Age began as a one-month experiment in October 2010, featuring chapter-length essays by a wide array of scholars with the goal of rethinking traditional practices of researching, writing, and publishing, and the broader implications of digital technology for the historical profession. The essays and discussion topics were posted on a WordPress platform with a special plug-in that allowed readers to add paragraph-level comments in the margins, transforming the work into socially networked texts. This first installment drew an enthusiastic audience, over 50 comments on the texts, and over 1,000 unique visitors to the site from across the globe, with many who stayed on the site for a significant period of time to read the work. To facilitate this new volume, Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki designed a born-digital, open-access platform to capture reader comments on drafts and shape the book as it developed. Following a period of open peer review and discussion, the finished product now presents 20 essays from a wide array of notable scholars, each examining (and then breaking apart and reexamining) how digital and emergent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish."--
    Abstract: Is (digital) history more than an argument about the past? /Sherman Dorn --Pasts in a digital age /Stefan Tanaka --I nevertheless am a historian : digital historical practice and malpractice around black Confederate soldiers /Leslie Madsen-Brooks --The historian's craft, popular memory, and Wikipedia /Robert S. Wolff --The Wikiblitz : a Wikipedia editing assignment in a first-year undergraduate class /Shawn Graham --Wikipedia and women's history : a classroom experience /Martha Saxton --Toward teaching the introductory history course, digitally /Thomas Harbison,Luke Waltzer --Learning how to write analog and digital history /Adrea Lawrence --Teaching Wikipedia without apologies /Amanda Seligman --Historical research and the problem of categories : reflections on 10,000 digital note cards /Ansley T. Erickson --Creating meaning in a sea of information : the Women and social movements Web sites /Kathryn Kish Sklar,Thomas Dublin --The hermeneutics of data and historical writing /Fred Gibbs,Trevor Owens --Visualizations and historical arguments /John Theibault --Putting Harlem on the map /Stephen Robertson --Pox and the city : challenges in writing a digital history game /Laura Zucconi,Ethan Watrall,Hannah Ueno,Lisa Rosner --Writing Chicana/o history with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project /Oscar Rosales Castañeda --Citizen scholars : Facebook and the co-creation of knowledge /Amanda Grace Sikarskie --The HeritageCrowd Project : a case study in crowdsourcing public history /Shawn Graham,Guy Massie,Nadine Feuerherm --The accountability partnership : writing and surviving in the digital age /Natalia Mehlman Petrzela,Sarah Manekin --Only typing? : informal writing, Blogging, and the academy /Alex Sayf Cummings,Jonathan Jarrett --Conclusions : what we learned from Writing history in the digital age /Jack Dougherty,Kristen Nawrotzi,Charlotte D. Rochez,Timothy Burke.
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    ISBN: 9780472119011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Political science & theory
    Abstract: Erik J. Engstrom offers a historical perspective on the effects of gerrymandering on elections and party control of the U.S. national legislature. Aside from the requirements that districts be continuous and, after 1842, that each select only one representative, there were few restrictions on congressional districting. Unrestrained, state legislators drew and redrew districts to suit their own partisan agendas. With the rise of the “one-person, one-vote” doctrine and the implementation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however, redistricting became subject to court oversight. Engstrom evaluates the abundant cross-sectional and temporal variation in redistricting plans and their electoral results from all the states, from 1789 through the 1960s, to identify the causes and consequences of partisan redistricting. His analysis reveals that districting practices across states and over time systematically affected the competitiveness of congressional elections, shaped the partisan composition of congressional delegations, and, on occasion, determined party control of the House of Representatives
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    ISBN: 9780472117611
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 p.)
    Keywords: Environmental science, engineering & technology
    Abstract: This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic waste occurs not just in the form of discarded computers but also as a scatter of information devices, software, and systems that are rendered obsolete and fail. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural, and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. All together, these sites stack up into a sedimentary record that forms the "natural history" of this study. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. By drawing on the material analysis developed by Walter Benjamin, this natural history method allows for an inquiry into electronics that focuses neither on technological progression nor on great inventors but rather considers the ways in which electronic technologies fail and decay. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys pulls together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies. Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer in Design and Convener of the Masters in Design and Environment in the Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London. Jacket image: Computer dump ©iStockphoto/Lya_Cattel. digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative and accessible work exploring new media and their impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication. Visit the website at www.digitalculture.org
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    ISBN: 9780472118724
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and fragmentation is the consequence of a chain of reactions and counterreactions to policy decisions dating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when preschool advocates did not achieve their vision for a comprehensive national program but did manage to foster initiatives at both the state and national levels. Over time, beneficiaries of these initiatives and officials with jurisdiction over preschool education have become ardent defenders of the status quo. Today, advocates of greater government involvement must take on a diverse and entrenched set of constituencies resistant to policy change
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    Abstract: From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Publishing Blackness aims to project African Americanist scholarship into the discourse of textual scholarship, provoking further work in a vital area of literary study
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472071913
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 p.)
    Keywords: Computer games / online games: strategy guides ; Hobbies, quizzes & games
    Abstract: A close examination about what is considered the most important first-person video game ever made and its influence on how we play games today
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472072064
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (298 p.)
    Abstract: A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish
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    ISBN: 9780472028719
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero who as nephew of the imperial adviser Seneca moved in the upper echelons of Neronian society. This young and maverick poet, whom Nero commanded to commit suicide at the age of 26, left an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey that epitomizes the exuberance and stylistic experimentation of Neronian culture. This study focuses on Lucan's epic technique and traces his influence through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.Martin T. Dinter's newest volume engages with Lucan's use of body imagery, sententiae, Fama (rumor), and open-endedness throughout his civil war epic. Although Lucan's Bellum Civile is frequently decried as a fragmented as well as fragmentary epic, this study demonstrates how Lucan uses devices other than teleology and cohesive narrative structure to bind together the many parts of his epic body
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    ISBN: 9780472118786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (185 p.)
    Keywords: Education ; Higher & further education, tertiary education ; Teaching of a specific subject
    Abstract: Digital history is an approach to examining and representing the past that takes advantage of new communication technologies such as computers and the Web. It draws on essential features of the digital realm, such as databases, hypertextualization, and networks, to create and share historical knowledge. Digital history complements other forms of history—indeed, it draws its strength and methodological rigor from this age-old form of human understanding while using the latest technology. Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on our campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy Internet access. Teaching History in the Digital Age is intended to serve as a guide for practitioners on how to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, teaching of history
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    ISBN: 9780472119073
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Theatre studies
    Abstract: Beginning with Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater—Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in Moscow—and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472029235
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    Abstract: While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer’s book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies, signifying both the imaging technology by which most Western women discover they have this disease and the documentary imperatives that drive their written and visual accounts of it. Mammographies argues that breast cancer narratives of the past ten years differ from their predecessors in their bold address of previously neglected topics such as the link between cancer and environmental carcinogens, the ethics and efficacy of genetic testing and prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of prosthesis and reconstruction. Mammographies is distinctive among studies of contemporary illness narratives in its exclusive focus on breast cancer, its analysis of both memoirs and photographic texts, its attention to hybrid and collaborative narratives, and its emphasis on ecological, genetic, transnational, queer, and anti-pink discourses. DeShazer’s methodology—best characterized as literary critical, feminist, and interdisciplinary—includes detailed interpretation of the narrative strategies, thematic contours, and visual imagery of a wide range of contemporary breast cancer memoirs and photographic anthologies. The author explores the ways in which the narratives constitute a distinctive testimonial and memorial tradition, a claim supported by close readings and theoretical analysis that demonstrates how these narratives question hegemonic cultural discourses, empower reader-viewers as empathic witnesses, and provide communal sites for mourning, resisting, and remembering
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9780472029235
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als DeShazer, Mary K., 1949 - Mammographies
    DDC: 618.1/907572
    Abstract: "While breast cancer continues to affect the lives of millions, contemporary writers and artists have responded to the ravages of the disease in creative expression. Mary K. DeShazer's book looks specifically at breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, a category she refers to as mammographies, signifying both the imaging technology by which most Western women discover they have this disease and the documentary imperatives that drive their written and visual accounts of it. Mammographies argues that breast cancer narratives of the past ten years differ from their predecessors in their bold address of previously neglected topics such as the link between cancer and environmental carcinogens, the ethics and efficacy of genetic testing and prophylactic mastectomy, and the shifting politics of prosthesis and reconstruction. Mammographies is distinctive among studies of contemporary illness narratives in its exclusive focus on breast cancer, its analysis of both memoirs and photographic texts, its attention to hybrid and collaborative narratives, and its emphasis on ecological, genetic, transnational, queer, and anti-pink discourses. DeShazer's methodology--best characterized as literary critical, feminist, and interdisciplinary--includes detailed interpretation of the narrative strategies, thematic contours, and visual imagery of a wide range of contemporary breast cancer memoirs and photographic anthologies. The author explores the ways in which the narratives constitute a distinctive testimonial and memorial tradition, a claim supported by close readings and theoretical analysis that demonstrates how these narratives question hegemonic cultural discourses, empower reader-viewers as empathic witnesses, and provide communal sites for mourning, resisting, and remembering."--Publisher's description
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    ISBN: 9780472028719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dinter, Martin, 1950 - Anatomizing Civil War
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    Keywords: Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus 39-65 De bello civili ; Erzähltechnik ; Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus 39-65 De bello civili ; Erzähltechnik
    Abstract: "Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero. This maverick but socially prominent poet, whom Nero commanded to commit suicide at the age of 26, left an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey that epitomizes the exuberance and stylistic experimentation of Neronian culture. This study focuses on Lucan's epic technique and traces his influence through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Martin Dinter's newest volume engages with Lucan's use of body imagery, sententiae, Fama (rumor), and open-endedness throughout his civil war epic. Although Lucan's Bellum Civile is frequently decried as a fragmented as well as fragmentary epic, this study demonstrates how Lucan uses devices other than teleology and cohesive narrative structure to bind together the many parts of his epic body. Anatomizing Civil War places at center stage characteristics of Lucan's work that have so far been interpreted as excessive, or as symptoms of an overly rhetorical culture indicating a lack of substance. By demonstrating that they all contribute to Lucan's poetic technique, Martin Dinter shows how they play a fundamental role in shaping and connecting the many episodes of the Bellum Civile that constitute Lucan's epic body. This important volume will be of interest to students of classics and comparative literature as well as literary scholars. All Greek and Latin passages have been translated
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472027581 , 0472900749 , 9780472027583 , 9780472900749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages) , illustrations, charts, figures, tables
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Johnston, Warren Printing and prophecy. Prognostication and media change, 1450–1550. By Jonathan Green. (Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World.) Pp. xiii+265 incl. 11 figs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. 70. 978 0 472 11783 3 2013
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Haberkern, Phillip [Rezension von: Green, Jonathan, Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550] 2013
    Series Statement: Cultures of knowledge in the Early Modern World
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    Keywords: Books ; Predictive astrology History ; Predictive astrology ; Prophecy Christianity ; History ; Prophecy Christianity ; Books History ; European history ; Electronic book ; Buchproduktion ; Weissagung ; Astrologie ; Verbreitung ; Deutsches Sprachgebiet
    Abstract: Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and known today only from a single page---over the next century were perennial best sellers for many printers, and they provide the modern observer with a unique way to study the history and inner workings of the print medium. The very popularity of these works, often published as affordable booklets, raised fears of social unrest. Printers therefore had to meet customer demand while at the same time channeling readers' reactions along approved paths
    Abstract: Introduction: printing and prophecy -- The Sibyl's book -- Prophets in print -- Prophets and their readers -- Visions of visions: functions of the image in printed prophecy -- Practica teütsch -- Fear, floods, and the paradox of the practica teütsch -- Conclusion: the prophetic reader
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    ISBN: 9780472099849
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    Abstract: One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century.In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function
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    ISBN: 9780472904129 , 9780472118533 , 9780472035670
    Language: Undetermined
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    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside more familiar forms of "legitimate theater." Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously by mainstream society, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism
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    ISBN: 9780472904105 , 9780472118229 , 9780472031405
    Language: Undetermined
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    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices and local, state, and federal laws that affect LGBT students. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth and their experiences with discrimination at school bring human faces to the issues the authors discuss
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    ISBN: 9780472904150 , 9780472004126 , 9780472071791 , 9780472051793
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    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music. The book's innovative readings of performers including Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder, Eartha Kitt, and Meshell Ndegeocello demonstrate how embodied sound and performance became a means for creativity, transgression, and social critique, a way to reclaim imaginative and corporeal freedom from the social death of slavery and its legacy of racism, to engender new sexualities and desires, to escape the sometimes constrictive codes of respectability and uplift from within the black community, and to make space for new futures for their listeners. The book's perspective on music as a form of black corporeality and identity, creativity, and political engagement will appeal to those in African American studies, popular music studies, queer theory, and black performance studies; general readers will welcome its engaging, accessible, and sometimes playful writing style, including elements of memoir
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    Abstract: One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century.In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function
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    Abstract: Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature
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    ISBN: 9780472035212
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 p.)
    Keywords: Architecture ; Architectural structure & design
    Abstract: Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination and practice of alternative urbanisms. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urban cultures, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit initiates a new focus on Detroit as a site not only of urban crisis but also of urban possibility. The Guide documents art and curatorial practices, community and guerilla gardens, urban farming and forestry, cultural platforms, living archives, evangelical missions, temporary public spaces, intentional communities, furtive monuments, outsider architecture, and other work made possible by the ready availability of urban space in Detroit. The Guide poses these spaces as “unreal estate”: urban territory that has slipped through the free- market economy and entered other regimes of value, other contexts of meaning, and other systems of use. The appropriation of this territory in Detroit, the Guide suggests, offers new perspectives on what a city is and can be, especially in a time of urban crisis
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    ISBN: 9780472071715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Architecture and Modern Literature
    DDC: 809/.93357
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    Keywords: Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern History and criticism ; Literature, Modern History and criticism ; Literature, Modern ; Space perception in literature ; Architecture and literature ; Literary Criticism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature
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    ISBN: 9780472071623
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (171 p.)
    DDC: 794.8
    Keywords: Computer games / online games: strategy guides
    Abstract: Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history
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    ISBN: 0472028715 , 0472901052 , 0472118501 , 1299159869 , 9780472118502 , 9780472901050 , 9781299159860 , 9780472028719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 186 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dinter, Martin T Anatomizing Civil War
    DDC: 873/.01
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    Keywords: Lucan ; Lucan Technique ; Epic poetry, Latin History and criticism ; Lucan ; Civil War (Rome : 49-45 B.C.) ; Pharsalia (Lucan) ; HISTORY ; Ancient ; Rome ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Ancient & Classical ; HISTORY ; General ; Epic poetry, Latin ; Technique ; War and literature ; Rome (Empire) ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C ; Literature and the war ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: "Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero. This maverick but socially prominent poet, whom Nero commanded to commit suicide at the age of 26, left an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey that epitomizes the exuberance and stylistic experimentation of Neronian culture. This study focuses on Lucan's epic technique and traces his influence through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Martin Dinter's newest volume engages with Lucan's use of body imagery, sententiae, Fama (rumor), and open-endedness throughout his civil war epic. Although Lucan's Bellum Civile is frequently decried as a fragmented as well as fragmentary epic, this study demonstrates how Lucan uses devices other than teleology and cohesive narrative structure to bind together the many parts of his epic body. Anatomizing Civil War places at center stage characteristics of Lucan's work that have so far been interpreted as excessive, or as symptoms of an overly rhetorical culture indicating a lack of substance. By demonstrating that they all contribute to Lucan's poetic technique, Martin Dinter shows how they play a fundamental role in shaping and connecting the many episodes of the Bellum Civile that constitute Lucan's epic body. This important volume will be of interest to students of classics and comparative literature as well as literary scholars. All Greek and Latin passages have been translated"--
    Abstract: Introduction -- Aide-Mémoire: the plot of Lucan's Bellum Civile -- 1. Lucan's epic body: anatomizing Civil War -- 2. Embodiments: Lucan and Fama -- 3. Autarchic limbs: Sententiae in Lucan -- 4. The anatomy of repetition -- Bibliography -- ndex Locorum -- General Index.
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    ISBN: 9780472900299 , 0472900293 , 9780472035373 , 0472029401 , 0472900293 , 0472035371 , 0472117610 , 0472029401 , 9780472900299 , 9780472035373 , 9780472117611 , 9780472029402
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 225 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version Gabrys, Jennifer Digital rubbish
    Keywords: Electronic apparatus and appliances History ; Electronic waste ; Electronic apparatus and appliances ; Electronic waste ; SCIENCE ; Environmental Science ; Electronic apparatus and appliances ; Electronic waste ; History ; Electronic book
    Abstract: "This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic waste occurs not just in the form of discarded computers but also as a scatter of information devices, software, and systems that are rendered obsolete and fail. Where other studies have addressed "digital" technology through a focus on its immateriality or virtual qualities, Gabrys traces the material, spatial, cultural, and political infrastructures that enable the emergence and dissolution of these technologies. In the course of her book, she explores five interrelated "spaces" where electronics fall apart: from Silicon Valley to Nasdaq, from containers bound for China to museums and archives that preserve obsolete electronics as cultural artifacts, to the landfill as material repository. All together, these sites stack up into a sedimentary record that forms the "natural history" of this study. Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics describes the materiality of electronics from a unique perspective, examining the multiple forms of waste that electronics create as evidence of the resources, labor, and imaginaries that are bundled into these machines. By drawing on the material analysis developed by Walter Benjamin, this natural history method allows for an inquiry into electronics that focuses neither on technological progression nor on great inventors but rather considers the ways in which electronic technologies fail and decay. Ranging across studies of media and technology, as well as environments, geography, and design, Jennifer Gabrys pulls together the far-reaching material and cultural processes that enable the making and breaking of these technologies"--Publisher's description
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : a natural history of electronics -- Silicon elephants : the transformative materiality of microchips -- Ephemeral screens : exchange at the interface -- Shipping and receiving : circuits of disposal and the "social death" of electronics -- Museum of failure : the mutability of electronic memory -- Media in the dump : salvage stories and spaces of remainder -- Conclusion : digital rubbish theory.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9780472027750 , 1283334380 , 047290079X , 9781283334389 , 9780472900794
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 184 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: Also issued in print and PDF version
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Finke, Daniel, 1977 - [Rezension von: Slapin, Jonathan B., 1970-, Veto power und Thomson, Robert, Resolving decision-making before and after enlargement] 2013
    Series Statement: Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016
    Series Statement: Political Science
    Series Statement: New comparative politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Slapin, Jonathan B., 1979 - Veto power
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    Keywords: Legislative veto ; Politics and government ; Legislative veto European Union countries ; Electronic books ; Europäische Union ; Gesetzgebung ; Vetorecht ; Vertrag ; Verhandlung
    Abstract: Jonathan B. Slapin traces the historical development of the veto privilege in the EU and how a veto -or veto threat- has been employed in treaty negotiations of the past two decades. As he explains, the importance of veto power in treaty negotiations is one of the features that distinguishes the EU from other international organizations in which exit and expulsion threats play a greater role. At the same time, the prominence of veto power means that bargaining in the EU looks more like bargaining in a federal system. Slapin's findings have significant ramifications for the study of international negotiations, the design of international organizations, and European integration
    Abstract: Introduction -- Institutional design at IGCs. Case selection -- Modeling institutionalism and intergovernmentalism -- Testing institutionalism and intergovernmentalism -- Winners and losers at Amsterdam -- Council votes and commissioners -- Exit threats, veto rights, and integration -- British accession : exit options and veto power -- Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Also issued in print and PDF version. , In English
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    ISBN: 0472071378 , 9780472071371 , 9780472900312 , 0472900315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 pages)
    Series Statement: Technologies of the imagination
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Buckingham, David, 1954- Home truths? video production and domestic life
    Keywords: Video recordings Production and direction ; Video recordings Social aspects ; Video recording ; Video recording ; Video recordings ; Production and direction ; Video recordings ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
    Abstract: 50500Introduction --Understanding home video --Exploring the home mode : researching video practices --Domesticating video --The subject of video --Learning video : the making of media literacy --Conclusion.
    Abstract: "Over the past decade, the video camera has become a commonplace household technology. With falling prices on compact and easy-to-use cameras, as well as mobile phones and digital still cameras with video recording capabilities, access to moving image production technology is becoming virtually universal. Home Truths? represents one of the few academic research studies exploring this everyday, popular use of video production technology, looking particularly at how families use and engage with the technology and how it fits into the routines of everyday life. The authors draw on interviews, observations, and the participants' videos themselves, seeking to paint a comprehensive picture of the role of video making in their everyday lives. While readers gain a sense of the individual characters involved in the project and the complexities and diversities of their lives, the analysis also raises a range of broader issues about the nature of learning and creativity, subjectivity and representation, and the "domestication" of technology--issues that are of interest to many in the fields of sociology and media/cultural studies"--Publisher's description
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index , English
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    ISBN: 047207119X , 9780472071197 , 9780472051199 , 0472051199 , 9780472900343 , 047290034X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Editorial theory and literary criticism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Literature and the Internet ; American literature Research ; Methodology ; American literature Research ; Electronic information resources ; American literature Study and teaching ; Methodology ; American literature Study and teaching ; Electronic information resources ; American literature History and criticism ; Electronic information resources ; American literature ; Research ; Methodology ; Literature and the Internet ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; United States
    Abstract: Introduction /Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell --Part 1.Shifts in professional practices: Collaborative work and the conditions for American literary scholarship in a digital age /Kenneth M. Price; Challenging gaps: redesigning collaboration in the digital humanities /Amy E. Earhart; Whitman's poems in periodicals: prospects for periodicals scholarship in the digital age /Susan Belasco; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin: a case study in textual transmission /Wesley Raabe; Presentation of archival materials on the web: a curator's model based on selectivity and interpretation /Leslie Perrin Wilson; Scholars' usage of digital archives in American literature /Lisa Spiro and Jane Segal --Part 2.Markup and tools: new models and methods for humanistic inquiry: A case for heavy editing: the example of Race and children's literature in the Gilded Age /Amanda Gailey; Where is the text of America? witnessing revision and the online critical archive /John Bryant; "Counted out at last": text analysis on the Willa Cather Archive /Andrew Jewell and Brian L. Pytlik Zillig; Visualizing the archive /Edward Whitley --Part 3.Theoretical challenges in digital Americanist scholarship: Digital humanities and the study of race and ethnicity /Stephanie P. Browner; Design and politics in electronic American literary archives /Matt Cohen; Encoding culture: building a digital archive based on traditional Ojibwe teachings /Timothy B. Powell and Larry P. Aitken, chi-ayy ya agg (Wisdom Keeper).
    Abstract: "The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age, which features a wide range of practitioner-scholars, is the first of its kind: a gathering of people who are expert in American literary studies and in digital technologies, scholars uniquely able to draw from experience with building digital resources and to provide theoretical commentary on how the transformation to new technologies alters the way we think about and articulate scholarship in American literature. The volume collects articles from those who are involved in tool development, usability testing, editing and textual scholarship, digital librarianship, and issues of race and ethnicity in digital humanities, while also situating digital humanities work within the larger literary discipline. In addition, the volume examines the traditional structures of the fields, including tenure and promotion criteria, modes of scholarly production, the skill sets required for scholarship, and the training of new scholars. The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age will attract practitioners of digital humanities in multiple fields, Americanists who utilize digital materials, and those who are intellectually curious about the new movement and materials"--Publisher's description
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    ISBN: 9780472117833
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Haberkern, Phillip [Rezension von: Green, Jonathan, Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550] 2013
    Series Statement: Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World
    Keywords: European history
    Abstract: "Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book—not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and known today only from a single page—over the next century were perennial best sellers for many printers, and they provide the modern observer with a unique way to study the history and inner workings of the print medium. The very popularity of these works, often published as affordable booklets, raised fears of social unrest. Printers therefore had to meet customer demand while at the same time channeling readers' reactions along approved paths. Authors were packaged—and packaged themselves—in word and image to respond to the tension, while leading figures of early modern culture such as Paracelsus, Martin Luther, and Sebastian Brant used printed prophecies for their own purposes in a rapidly changing society. Based on a wide reading of many sources, Printing and Prophecy contributes to the study of early modern literature, including how print changed the relationship among authors, readers, and texts. The prophetic and astrological texts the book examines document changes in early modern society that are particularly relevant to German studies and are key texts for understanding the development of science, religion, and popular culture in the early modern period. By combining the methods of cultural studies and book history, this volume brings a new perspective to the study of Gutenberg and later printers."
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    ISBN: 9780472070992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Abstract: At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed ""death,"" Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates
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    ISBN: 9780472901180
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    Abstract: From Attali's "cold social silence" to Baudrillard's hallucinatory reality, reproduced music has long been the target of critical attack. In Bytes and Backbeats, however, Steve Savage deploys an innovative combination of designed recording projects, ethnographic studies of contemporary music practice, and critical analysis to challenge many of these traditional attitudes about the creation and reception of music. Savage adopts the notion of "repurposing" as central to understanding how every aspect of musical activity, from creation to reception, has been transformed, arguing that the tension within production between a naturalizing "art" and a self-conscious "artifice" reflects and feeds into our evolving notions of creativity, authenticity, and community
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    ISBN: 9780472070602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Intellectual property law
    Abstract: What is the relationship between hip-hop and African American culture in the post--Civil Rights era? Does hip-hop share a criticism of American culture or stand as an isolated and unique phenomenon? How have African American texts responded to the increasing role intellectual property law plays in regulating images, sounds, words, and logos? Parodies of Ownership examines how contemporary African American writers, artists, and musicians have developed an artistic form that Schur terms ""hip-hop aesthetics."" This book offers an in-depth examination of a wide range of contemporary African American painters and writers, including Anna Deavere Smith, Toni Morrison, Adrian Piper, Colson Whitehead, Michael Ray Charles, Alice Randall, and Fred Wilson. Their absence from conversations about African American culture has caused a misunderstanding about the nature of contemporary cultural issues and resulted in neglect of their innovative responses to the post--Civil Rights era. By considering their work as a cross-disciplinary and specifically African American cultural movement, Schur shows how a new paradigm for artistic creation has developed. Parodies of Ownership offers a broad analysis of post--Civil Rights era culture and provides the necessary context for understanding contemporary debates within American studies, African American studies, intellectual property law, African American literature, art history, and hip-hop studies. Weaving together law, literature, art, and music, Schur deftly clarifies the conceptual issues that unify contemporary African American culture, empowering this generation of artists, writers, and musicians to criticize how racism continues to affect our country
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    ISBN: 9780472071494
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (134 p.)
    Keywords: Computer games / online games: strategy guides ; Hobbies, quizzes & games
    Abstract: Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples. Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni is a close analysis of two of the most popular and significant video games in the history of the genre, investigating in detail their design, their functionality, and the gameplay experience they provide players. While scholarly close analysis has been applied to films for some time now, it has only rarely been applied at this level to video games. Mark J. P. Wolf uses elements such as graphics and sound, the games' mood and atmosphere and how they are generated, the geography and design of the digital worlds, and the narrative structures of the games to examine their appeal to both critical and general audiences, their legacy, and what made them great
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    ISBN: 0472027832 , 0472900331 , 0472051628 , 0472071629 , 9780472900336 , 9780472051625 , 9780472071623 , 9780472027835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 pages)
    Series Statement: Landmark video games
    Series Statement: DigitalCultureBooks
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Silent Hill (Game) ; GAMES ; Video & Electronic ; Silent Hill (Game) ; Social Sciences ; Recreation & Sports ; GAMES ; Video & Electronic ; Electronic book
    Abstract: "Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, the second of the two inaugural studies in the Landmark Video Games series from series editors Mark J.P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series. Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. Perron situates the games within the survival horror genre, both by looking at the history of the genre and by comparing Silent Hill with such important forerunners as Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil. Taking a transmedia approach and underlining the designer's cinematic and literary influences, he uses the narrative structure; the techniques of imagery, sound, and music employed; the game mechanics; and the fiction, artifact, and gameplay emotions elicited by the games to explore the specific fears survival horror games are designed to provoke and how the experience as a whole has made the Silent Hill series one of the major landmarks of video game history."--Publisher description
    Abstract: Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Survival Terror; Chapter 2: Characters� Nightmarish Delusions in a Resort Town; Chapter 3: Designers� Cinematic Depiction of a Game World; Chapter 4: Gamers Terrifying Exploration of Silent Hill; Conclusion: An Endless Nightmare; The Silent Hill Franchise (1999�2009); Notes; Glossary; Bibliography and Ludography; Index
    Note: "Published by digitalculturebooks, a joint publication of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library"--Footer of e-book home page , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9780472904228 , 0472904221
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: English literature History and criticism 20th century ; English literature History and criticism 19th century ; Litterature anglaise - 20e siecle - Histoire et critique ; Litterature anglaise - 19e siecle - Histoire et critique ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General ; Politics and government ; English literature ; Masculinities ; Gender studies ; History ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; India Politics and government 1765-1947 ; India History British occupation, 1765-1947 ; Inde - Politique et gouvernement - 1765-1947 ; Inde - Histoire - 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique) ; India
    Abstract: Effeminism charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Working on the assumption that desire is intensely political, historically constituted, and materially determined, the book shows how the inscriptions of masculinity in the fictions of Flora Annie Steel, Rudyard Kipling, and E. M. Forster are deeply implicated in the politics of colonial rule and anticolonial resistance. At the same time, the study refrains from representing colonialism as a coherent set of public events, policies, and practices whose social, political, and cultural meanings are self-evident. Instead, by tracing the resistant and unassailable modes of masculine desire in colonial fiction, the study insists on an explosive revolutionary potential that makes desire often intractable. And by restoring the political in the unconscious and the unconscious in the political, the book proposes to understand colonialism in terms of historical failure, ideological inadequacy, and political contention. This book will interest not only scholars of 19th- and 20th-century British literature and colonial and postcolonial literatures, but also those working in the areas of cultural studies, gender studies, and South Asian studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. Forster's Passage to India.
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    Abstract: China has earned a reputation for lax environmental standards that allegedly attract corporations more interested in profit than in moral responsibility and, consequently, further negate incentives to raise environmental standards. Surprisingly, Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin find that international economic integration with nation-states that have stringent environmental regulations facilitates the diffusion of corporate environmental norms and standards to Chinese provinces. At the same time, concerns about “green” tariffs imposed by importing countries encourage Chinese export-oriented firms to ratchet up their own environmental standards. The authors present systematic quantitative and qualitative analyses and data that not only demonstrate the ways in which external market pressure influences domestic environmental policy but also lend credence to arguments for the ameliorative effect of trade and foreign direct investment on the global environment
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    ISBN: 9780472120055
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    Abstract: The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African American literary art. The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which BAM's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement's authors. The book also describes the role of the Black Arts Movement in reintroducing readers to poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the writing and editing practices of its participants. Howard Rambsy II demonstrates how significant circulation and format of black poetic texts—not simply their content—were to the formation of an artistic movement. The book goes on to examine other significant influences on the formation of Black Arts discourse, including such factors as an emerging nationalist ideology and figures such as John Coltrane and Malcolm X
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Veto rights can be a meaningful source of power only when leaving an organization is extremely unlikely. For example, small European states have periodically wielded their veto privileges to override the preferences of their larger, more economically and militarily powerful neighbors when negotiating European Union treaties, which require the unanimous consent of all EU members. Jonathan B. Slapin traces the historical development of the veto privilege in the EU and how a veto—or veto threat—has been employed in treaty negotiations of the past two decades. As he explains, the importance of veto power in treaty negotiations is one of the features that distinguishes the EU from other international organizations in which exit and expulsion threats play a greater role. At the same time, the prominence of veto power means that bargaining in the EU looks more like bargaining in a federal system. Slapin's findings have significant ramifications for the study of international negotiations, the design of international organizations, and European integration
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched
    ISBN: 9780472120055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 811/.509896073
    Keywords: American poetry African American authors ; History and criticism ; Poetry Publishing ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; African Americans Intellectual life ; 20th century ; African Americans in literature
    Abstract: Introduction : "a group of groovy Black people" -- Getting poets on the same page : the roles of periodicals -- Platforms for Black verse : the roles of anthologies -- Understanding the production of Black arts texts -- All aboard the Malcolm-Coltrane express -- The poets, critics, and theorists are one -- The revolution will not be anthologized -- List of anthologies containing African American poetry, 1967-75
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472071531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (181 p.)
    Series Statement: Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life
    Keywords: Education ; Teaching skills & techniques ; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)
    Abstract: Digital Tools in Urban Schools demonstrates significant ways in which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an urban public high school in northern California extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms. Through a novel research collaboration between a university and this public school, these teachers were supported and guided in developing the skills necessary to take greater advantage of new media and new information sources to increase student learning while making connections to their relevant experiences and interests. Jabari Mahiri draws on extensive qualitative data—including blogs, podcasts, and other digital media—to document, describe, and analyze how the learning of both students and teachers was dramatically transformed as they utilized digital media in their classrooms. Digital Tools in Urban Schools will interest instructional leaders and participants in teacher preparation and professional development programs, education and social science researchers and scholars, graduate and undergraduate programs and classes emphasizing literacy and learning, and those focused on urban education issues and conditions
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472027603 , 0472900307 , 047207153X , 0472051539 , 9780472071531 , 9780472900305 , 9780472051533 , 9780472027606
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (170 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Technologies of the imagination: new media in everyday life
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mahiri, Jabari Digital tools in urban schools
    DDC: 371.009173/2
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    Keywords: Urban youth Education ; Social aspects ; Critical pedagogy ; Digital communications Social aspects ; EDUCATION ; Administration ; General ; EDUCATION ; Organizations & Institutions ; EDUCATION ; General ; Critical pedagogy ; Digital communications ; Social aspects ; United States ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Annotation, "Today there is massive interest in how digital tools and popular culture are transforming learning out of school and lots of dismay at how digitally lost our schools are. Jabari Mahiri works his usual magic and here shows us how to cross this divide in a solidly grounded and beautifully written book."--James Paul Gee, Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University"Digital Tools in Urban Schoolsis a profoundly sobering yet inspiring depiction of the potential for committed educators to change the lives of urban youth, with the assistance of a new set of technical capabilities."--Mimi Ito, Professor in Residence and MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, Departments of Informatics and Anthropology, University of California, Irvine"An uplifting book that addresses a critical gap in existing literature by providing rich and important insights into ways teachers, administrators, and members of the wider community can work together with students previously alienated--even excluded--from formal education to enhance classroom learning with appropriate digital tools and achieve inspiring results under challenging circumstances."--Colin Lankshear, James Cook University, and Michele Knobel, Montclair State UniversityDigital Tools in Urban Schoolsdemonstrates significant ways in which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an urban public high school in northern California extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms. Through a novel research collaboration between a university and this public school, these teachers were supported and guided in developing the skills necessary to take greater advantage of new media and new information sources to increase student learning while making connections to their relevant experiences and interests. Jabari Mahiri draws on extensive qualitative data--including blogs, podcasts, and other digital media--to document, describe, and analyze how the learning of both students and teachers was dramatically transformed as they utilized digital media in their classrooms. Digital Tools in Urban Schoolswill interest instructional leaders and participants in teacher preparation and professional development programs, education and social science researchers and scholars, graduate and undergraduate programs and classes emphasizing literacy and learning, and those focused on urban education issues and conditions
    Abstract: New Literacies Need New Learning --Hip-Hop Journalism --Digital Teachers --"Virtual" World Media --A Second Life for Learning --Appendices --The ISTE National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for Teachers (NETS·T) --The ISTE National Educational Technology Standards and Performance Indicators for Students (NETS·S).
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472071531
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (181 p.)
    Keywords: Education ; Teaching skills & techniques ; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)
    Abstract: Digital Tools in Urban Schools demonstrates significant ways in which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an urban public high school in northern California extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms. Through a novel research collaboration between a university and this public school, these teachers were supported and guided in developing the skills necessary to take greater advantage of new media and new information sources to increase student learning while making connections to their relevant experiences and interests. Jabari Mahiri draws on extensive qualitative data—including blogs, podcasts, and other digital media—to document, describe, and analyze how the learning of both students and teachers was dramatically transformed as they utilized digital media in their classrooms. Digital Tools in Urban Schools will interest instructional leaders and participants in teacher preparation and professional development programs, education and social science researchers and scholars, graduate and undergraduate programs and classes emphasizing literacy and learning, and those focused on urban education issues and conditions
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472904099 , 0472904094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 233 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Triangulations: lesbian/gay/queer-- theater/drama/performance
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Davy, Kate Lady dicks and lesbian brothers
    Keywords: WOW Café Theatre (New York, N.Y.) ; WOW Café Theatre (New York, N.Y.) ; WOW Café Theatre (New York, N.Y.) ; 1900-1999 ; Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) History 20th century ; Lesbian theater ; Théâtre lesbien - New York (État) - New York ; Lesbian theater ; Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) ; Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century ; Lesbian theater - New York (State) - New York ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General ; History ; New York (State) - New York
    Abstract: "Out of a small, hand-to-mouth, women's theater collective called the WOW Café located on the lower east side of Manhattan, there emerged some of the most important theater troupes and performance artists of the 1980s and 1990s, including the Split Britches Company, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Deb Margolin, Reno, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver. The WOW (Women's One World) Café Theatre appeared on the cultural scene at a critical turning point in both the women's movement and feminist theory, putting a witty, hilarious, gender-bending and erotically charged aesthetic on the stage for women in general and lesbians in particular. The storefront that became the WOW Café Theatre saw dozens of excitingly original and enormously funny performances created, performed, and turned over at lightning speed--a kind of "hit and run" theater. As the demands on the space increased, the women behind WOW organized as a collective and moved their theater to an abandoned doll factory where it continues to operate today. For three decades the WOW Café has nurtured fledgling women writers, designers, and performers who continue to create important performance work. This book provides a critical history of this avant-garde venture whose ongoing "system of anarchy" has been largely responsible for its thirty-year staying power, after dozens of other women's theaters have collapsed. WOW artists were creating a wholly original cultural landscape across which women could represent themselves on their own terms. Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and an unbridled eroticism are hallmarks of WOW's aesthetic, combined--importantly and powerfully--with a presumptive address to the audience as if everyone onstage, in the audience, and in the world is lesbian. The author's research included in-depth interviews with WOW veterans; newspaper reviews of the earliest productions; and rare, unpublished photographs. The book also includes a chronology of productions that have highlighted WOW's performance schedule since the early '80s."--Publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.
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    ISBN: 9780472904044 , 9780472034895
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies shines the spotlight on historically neglected plays and performances that challenged early twentieth-century notions of the stratification of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. On Broadway stages, in Harlem nightclubs and dance halls, and within private homes sponsoring rent parties, African American performers of the 1920s and early 1930s teased the limits of white middle-class morality. Blues-singing lesbians, popularly known as "bulldaggers," performed bawdy songs; cross-dressing men vied for the top prizes in lavish drag balls; and black and white women flaunted their sexuality in scandalous melodramas and musical revues. Race leaders, preachers, and theater critics spoke out against these performances that threatened to undermine social and political progress, but to no avail: mainstream audiences could not get enough of the riotous entertainment
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472904099 , 9780472051229
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: Out of a small, hand-to-mouth women's theater collective called the WOW Café located on the lower east side of Manhattan there emerged some of the most important theater troupes and performance artists of the 1980s and 1990s. Appearing on the cultural scene at a critical turning point in both the women's movement and feminist theory, WOW put a witty, hilarious, gender-bending, and erotically charged aesthetic on stage for women in general and lesbians in particular. Featured performers included the Split Britches Company, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Lisa Kron, Deb Margolin, Reno, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver. For three decades the WOW Café Theatre has nurtured fledgling women writers, designers, and performers who continue to create important performance work. Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers offers the first critical history of the WOW Café, based on dozens of interviews with WOW performers and other participants, newspaper reviews of the earliest productions, and unpublished photographs, and suggests why the collective has had such amazing longevity and an enduring legacy
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472900916
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: "The idea of a culture war, or wars, has existed in America since the 1960s—an underlying ideological schism in our country that is responsible for the polarizing debates on everything from the separation of church and state, to abortion, to gay marriage, to affirmative action. Irene Taviss Thomson explores this notion by analyzing hundreds of articles addressing hot-button issues over two decades from four magazines: National Review, Time, The New Republic, and The Nation, as well as a wide array of other writings and statements from a substantial number of public intellectuals. What Thomson finds might surprise you: based on her research, there is no single cultural divide or cultural source that can account for the positions that have been adopted. While issues such as religion, homosexuality, sexual conduct, and abortion have figured prominently in public discussion, in fact there is no single thread that unifies responses to each of these cultural dilemmas for any of the writers."
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472116355
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 p.)
    Keywords: Computer games / online games: strategy guides ; Travel & holiday
    Abstract: A look at what it's like to play video games, their cultures in three different international cities, and their significance in everyday life
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472070985
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (245 p.)
    Keywords: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Virtual worlds ; Role-playing, war games & fantasy sports
    Abstract: World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers—officially making it an online community of gamers that had more inhabitants than the state of Ohio and was almost twice as populous as Scotland. It's a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO in gamer jargon, where each person controls a single character inside a virtual world, interacting with other people's characters and computer-controlled monsters, quest-givers, and merchants. In My Life as a Night Elf Priest, Bonnie Nardi, a well-known ethnographer who has published extensively on how theories of what we do intersect with how we adopt and use technology, compiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the United States and China into this field study of player behavior and activity. She introduces us to her research strategy and the history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and theories of aesthetic experience to the study of gaming and play; and educates us on issues of gender, culture, and addiction as part of the play experience. Nardi paints a compelling portrait of what drives online gamers both in this country and in China, where she spent a month studying players in Internet cafes. Bonnie Nardi has given us a fresh look not only at World of Warcraft but at the field of game studies as a whole. One of the first in-depth studies of a game that has become an icon of digital culture, My Life as a Night Elf Priest will capture the interest of both the gamer and the ethnographer
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472070800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.)
    Abstract: Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding's portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts (such as, for example, Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Dogtown and Z-Boys). The book uses these elements to argue that adolescent boys can both critique dominant norms of masculinity and maintain the power that white heterosexual masculinity offers. Additionally, Yochim uses these analyses to introduce the notion of ""corresponding cultures,"" conceptualizing the ways in which media audiences both argue with and incorporate mediated images into their own ideas about identity. In a strong combination of anthropological and media studies approaches, Skate Life asks important questions of the literature on youth and provides new ways of assessing how young people create their identities
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472901203
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Abstract: Along with linked modes of religiosity, music and dance have long occupied a central position in the ways in which Atlantic peoples have enacted, made sense of, and responded to their encounters with each other. This unique collection of essays connects nations from across the Atlantic---Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, among others---highlighting contemporary popular, folkloric, and religious music and dance. By tracking the continuous reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal traces, the contributors to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World collectively argue that music and dance are the living evidence of a constant (re)composition and (re)mixing of local sounds and gestures
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472903801
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 284 S.) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Corporealities: discourses of disability
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wheatley, Edward Stumbling blocks before the blind
    DDC: 305.9/08109420902
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    Keywords: Blind History To 1500 ; Blind History To 1500 ; Disability studies ; Blind History ; To 1500 ; France ; Blind History ; To 1500 ; Great Britain ; Disability studies ; Frankreich ; England ; Blinder Mensch ; Alltag ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France
    Description / Table of Contents: Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
    ISBN: 9780472027477 , 0472027476
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 p. :) , Ill.
    DDC: 780.89/96
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Afroamerikanische Musik ; Afroamerikanischer Tanz ; Amerika ; Karibik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Description based on print version record
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472026704 , 0472900404 , 0472070991 , 0472050990 , 9780472070992 , 9780472900404 , 9780472050994 , 9780472026708
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 261 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stein, Kevin, 1954- Poetry's afterlife
    DDC: 811.509
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    Keywords: Poetry Appreciation 21st century ; History ; Poetry Appreciation 20th century ; History ; American poetry History and criticism 20th century ; American poetry History and criticism 21st century ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Poetry ; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General ; American poetry ; Poetry ; Appreciation ; United States ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History
    Abstract: At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates
    Abstract: [1.]On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? --"The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry --Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish --"When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline --Aesthetic dodo --[2.]On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction --A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries --These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts --Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers" --[3.]On teaching & the writer's workshop. The hammer --Voice: what you say and how readers hear it --Why kids hate poetry --Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems --[4.]After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.
    Note: "Digital culture books"--Ser. title page , Includes bibliographical references and index , English
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472071098
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (327 p.)
    DDC: 365/.66
    Keywords: Penology & punishment ; Teaching of a specific subject
    Abstract: Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472026712 , 0472900439 , 0472070983 , 0472050982 , 9780472070985 , 9780472900435 , 9780472050987 , 9780472026715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Technologies of the imagination
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nardi, Bonnie A My life as a night elf priest
    DDC: 793.93
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    Keywords: World of Warcraft (Game) ; Computer games Social aspects ; Virtual reality Social aspects ; Visual anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology / Cultural ; GAMES ; Fantasy Sports ; GAMES ; Role Playing & Fantasy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; World of Warcraft (Game) ; Computer games ; Social aspects ; Social aspects ; Virtual reality ; Social aspects ; Visual anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Recreation & Sports ; Korea (South) ; Korea (South) Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers -- officially making it an online community of gamers that had more inhabitants than the state of Ohio and was almost twice as populous as Scotland. It's a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO in gamer jargon, where each person controls a single character inside a virtual world, interacting with other people's characters and computer-controlled monsters, quest-givers, and merchants. In My Life as a Night Elf Priest, Bonnie Nardi, a well-known ethnographer who has published extensively on how theories of what we do intersect with how we adopt and use technology, compiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the United States and China into this field study of player behavior and activity. She introduces us to her research strategy and the history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and theories of aesthetic experience to the study of gaming and play; and educates us on issues of gender, culture, and addiction as part of the play experience. Nardi paints a compelling portrait of what drives online gamers both in this country and in China, where she spent a month studying players in Internet cafes. Bonnie Nardi has given us a fresh look not only at World of Warcraft but at the field of game studies as a whole. One of the first in-depth studies of a game that has become an icon of digital culture, My Life as a Night Elf Priest will capture the interest of both the gamer and the ethnographer."--Print version back cover
    Abstract: What is World of warcraft and who plays it? --An ethnographic invetigation of World of warcraft --Play as aesthetic experience --A new medium --Work, play, and the magic circle --Addiction --Theorycraft and mods --Gender --Culture : WoW in China-and North America.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472070923
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 p.)
    DDC: 794.8
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    Keywords: Computer games / online games: strategy guides ; Hobbies, quizzes & games ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, Myers argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts. In the course of this study, Myers asks a number of interesting questions: What are the mechanics of human play as exhibited in computer games? Can these mechanisms be modeled? What is the evolutionary function of cognitive play, and is it, on the whole, a good thing? Intended as a provocative corrective to the currently ascendant, if not dominant, cultural and ethnographic approach to game studies and play, Play Redux will generate interest among scholars of communications, new media, and film
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 9780472900374 , 0472900374
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (327 p.)
    Series Statement: The New Public Scholarship
    Keywords: Penology & punishment ; Teaching of a specific subject
    Abstract: Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration
    Note: English
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472106449 , 9780472106448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 272 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Law, meaning, and violence
    Parallel Title: Print version Keen, Lisa Strangers to the law
    DDC: 342.788/087
    Keywords: Romer, Roy Trials, litigation, etc ; Evans, Richard G Trials, litigation, etc ; Evans, Richard G ; Romer, Roy - 1928- ; Gays Legal status, laws, etc ; Gay rights ; Homosexuels - Droits - Colorado ; Gay rights ; Gays - Legal status, laws, etc ; Amendment 2 (Colo.) ; Trials, litigation, etc ; Colorado
    Abstract: The stakes -- Prelude to a trial -- The science of sexuality -- History of hate -- The politics of law -- Civil rights and "special rights" -- Morality plays -- The Colorado verdicts -- The U.S. Supreme Court -- The law and social change
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
    ISBN: 0472030493 , 0472112236 , 9780472030491 , 9780472112234
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 290 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Law, meaning, and violence
    Parallel Title: Available in another form Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan, 1958- Limits to union
    DDC: 306.84/8
    Keywords: Since 1993 ; Same-sex marriage ; Same-sex marriage Law and legislation ; Gay rights ; Homosexuels - Mariage - États-Unis ; Homosexuels - Mariage - Droit - États-Unis ; Homosexuels - Droits - États-Unis ; Gay rights ; Politics and government ; Same-sex marriage ; Same-sex marriage - Law and legislation ; Social policy ; United States Politics and government 1993-2001 ; United States Social policy 1993- ; États-Unis - Politique et gouvernement - 1993-2001 ; États-Unis - Politique sociale - 1993- ; United States
    Abstract: "The idea and possibility of same-sex marriage has, from its legal recognition in Hawai'i in 1993, ignited political controversy across the United States and the world
    Abstract: A trip to the "alter" -- Sovereign rites, civil rights -- The status of status -- Laboring for rights -- Hawaiian wedding song -- Global wedding bells -- Conclusion : the mourning after
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , Electronic reproduction , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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