Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so ...
Containing 2,500 entries, this is the first and only "Dictionary of Antisemitism" ever published. Its entries cover ancient, medieval, and modern antisemitism; pagan, Christian, and Muslim antisemitism; religious, economic, psychosocial, racial, cultural, and political antisemitism. A comprehensive scholarly introduction discusses the definitions, ...
A dictionary that provides a comprehensive compilation of the people and terms useful in forming an understanding of the Holocaust. In almost 2000 entries, it covers major heroes, war criminals, terms, concentration and death camps, cities and countries, and events. Each entry is accompanied by an explanation. Terms are translated from German, ...
"The Arcades Project" is the unfinished, final work of influential cultural theorist, critic, and historian, Walter Benjamin. Until 1999, this huge, unruly manuscript, which provides a more complete picture of the diversity of Benjamin's work than formerly available, had not been fully translated into English. "Benjamin Now" is the first ...
The writings collected in this volume make an important addition to The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. They lend credence to Bentham's claim that his ideas were appropriate 'for the use of all nations and all governments professing liberal opinions'. The essays, dating mainly from late 1822 and early 1823, are based exclusively on manuscripts, ...
"This work treats an important segment of international communications, a rapidly growing area of scholarly and practical interest. . . . The writing is concise and the material informative." Choice
Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitiutional democracy, and is one of the most important studies of colonialism written in the nineteenth century. Of the four essays collected in this voloume, three have been edited directly from the original ...
A resource guide to locating over 800 first-person accounts, fiction, poetry, art interpretations and music by Holocaust survivors, as well as videos relating their testimony and experiences. The entry on each writer, artist and musician features a biographical sketch and list of work.
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