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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

"In The Enchanting Kinora, Elizabeth Evans examines the Kinora in its technological, industrial and socio-cultural context to explore how early attempts to domesticate moving images were configured. …

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domest…

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Robert Calder
Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

William Somerset Maugham (1874--1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century---and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more …

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Cha Cha Au Harem: Orientica - France 1960 - 1964

Product Information In 1963, David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars. Launching its actors to stardom, including Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif who played Prince Ali Ibn Kharish at the age of th…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Margot Canaday
Queer Career

A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited at…

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Dennis Mcnally
The Last Great Dream

"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Kim Luperi, Danny Reid
Pre-Code Essentials

From Turner Classic Movies and the creators of @precodedotcom, this is the essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era---a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before str…

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Marie Sophie Beckmann
Films That Spill

Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, perfo…

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Laura Ryan
D. H. Lawrence and Black Modernism

The first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernist writers - Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean …

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Marie Sophie Beckmann
Films That Spill

Films That Spill is a comprehensive study of the Cinema of Transgression, a hitherto underexamined moment in US underground film culture. Reconsidering the concept of transgressive cinema not only as a de…

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Cha Cha Au Harem Orientica - France 1960-1964

Product Information In 1963, David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars. Launching its actors to stardom, including Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif who played Prince Ali Ibn Kharish at the age of th…

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Andrea Horbinski
Manga's First Century

"Manga are big. And in the growing field of manga studies, Andrea Horbinski's work is a standout. With years of deep research, rich new insights, and sparkling prose, Manga's First Century will delig…

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Roland Betancourt
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiencesWhen Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory a…

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John Crowe Ransom,
Land!

Ransom's Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites John Crowe Ransom's poetic sensibilities with his argument for an agrarian economy as an alternative to capitalism.

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