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Cultural Studies

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In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes China's cultural diplomacy by using the emergence of the China Institute in America and the Chinese Nationalist government

Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance

By James M. Harding
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, Political Science, Human Rights

Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life

Body Parts of Empire

Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive

By Nerissa Balce
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, American Studies

A cross-disciplinary reading of American popular culture at a time of U.S. imperialism and the occupation of the Philippine Islands.

Discipline and Desire

Surveillance Technologies in Performance

By Elise Morrison
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Cultural Studies

Focuses on how contemporary artists have responded to the ubiquitous presence of surveillance technologies in our daily lives

Aesthetics of Discomfort

Conversations on Disquieting Art

By Frederick Luis Aldama & Herbert S. Lindenberger
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art Theory, Literary Studies, Media Studies

Describes and defends the centrality of discomfort for consumers of various arts—literature, architecture, visual art, music, dance, and cinema

Utopia Toolbox

An incitement to radical creativity

By Juliane Stiegele & Nick Tobier
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies

An intriguing art & design manual that explores the social space between practitioners and their work

Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands

Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines

By Mark Rice
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, American Studies

A biography of the man whose photographic activities had a profound influence on the way that Americans perceived the Philippines throughout the twentieth century

Nothing Happened

Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide

By Darcy Buerkle
Subjects: Art, Art History, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A close look at Charlotte Salomon's fantastical autobiography Life? or Theater? and the way that German social history has omitted the stories of German Jewish women and suicide

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: American Studies, Art, Architecture, Class Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline

American Newspaper Comics

An Encyclopedic Reference Guide

By Allan Holtz
Subjects: Reference, American Studies, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies

The most comprehensive guide to U.S. newspaper comics ever published

Architecture and Modern Literature

By David Anton Spurr
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, European Studies

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

Baroque Horrors

Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

By David Castillo
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, History, Intellectual History

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age

The New Woman International

Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s

Edited by Elizabeth Otto & Vanessa Rocco
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, New Media, German Studies

An international picture of New Woman in film and photography

Illuminating Childhood

Portraits in Fiction, Film, and Drama

By Ellen Handler Spitz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Art, Art Theory

Experiencing the phases of childhood through art

Artaud and His Doubles

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice

Building Romanticism

Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Nicole Reynolds
Subjects: History, European History, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism

Disability Aesthetics

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments

Women and War

By Jenny Matthews
Subjects: Gender Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies

An unflinching twenty-year portrait-diary of women's lives in war zones

Beyond the Boundaries

American Alternative Theatre

By Theodore Shank
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies

An update of this popular history of experimental American theater

Reading Relationally

Postmodern Perspectives on Literature and Art

By Laurie Dale Edson
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, Art, Architecture, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies

How reading literature through the lens of visual art sheds new light on the accomplishments of modernist and postmodernist writers

Shifting Memories

The Nazi Past in the New Germany

By Klaus Neumann
Subjects: History, German Studies, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust

The Body Aesthetic

From Fine Art to Body Modification

Edited by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine

Establishes the body's undeniable presence and strangeness as the material out of which human beings are made

Rosa Bonheur

The Artist's (Auto)biography

By Anna Klumpke
Translated by Gretchen van Slyke
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

The intimate biography of French painter Rosa Bonheur by her companion Anna Klumpke

Simulacra and Simulation

By Jean Baudrillard
Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Art, Architecture
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
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