Fantasy Production

Fantasy Production
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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9622096271
ISBN-13 : 9789622096271
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Fantasy Production by : Neferti Xina M. Tadiar

Taking an innovative, postcolonial, feminist perspective on transformations in the Philippine nation in the context of globalization, Fantasy-Production provides a theoretical framework for understanding the nationalist and postcolonial capitalist logics shaping the actions of the Philippines as a nation-state. Tadiar probes the consequences of dominant Philippine imaginations by examining a broad range of phenomena which characterize the contemporary Philippine nation, including the mass migration overseas of domestic workers, the 'prostitution economy', urban restructuring, the popular revolt toppling the Marcos dictatorship, as well as various works of art, poetry, historiography, and film. This will be one of the first books available widely in English that provides a sustained theoretical engagement with the cultural dimensions of contemporary socio-political and economic developments in the Philippines.

The Impossible David Lynch

The Impossible David Lynch
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 0231139551
ISBN-13 : 9780231139557
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Impossible David Lynch by : Todd McGowan

Todd McGowan studies Lynch's talent for blending the bizarre and the normal to emphasise the odd nature of normality itself. In Lynch's movies, fantasy becomes a means through which the viewer is encouraged to build a revolutionary relationship with the world.

Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion

Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780415875707
ISBN-13 : 0415875706
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion by : Lois Oppenheim

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reflexivity and International Relations

Reflexivity and International Relations
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9781317656012
ISBN-13 : 1317656016
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Reflexivity and International Relations by : Jack L Amoureux

Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists. This volume seeks to provide the first overview of reflexivity in international relations theory, offering students and scholars a text that : provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the current reflexivity literature develops important insights into how reflexivity can play a broader role in IR theory pushes reflexivity in new, productive directions, and offers more nuanced and concrete specifications of reflexivity moves reflexivity beyond the scholar and the scholarly field to political practice Formulates practices of reflexivity. Drawing together the work of many of the key scholars in the field into one volume, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations theory.

Inside Therapy

Inside Therapy
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0312263422
ISBN-13 : 9780312263423
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Inside Therapy by : Ilana Rabinowitz

A scintillating collection of writings on the mysterious, controversial, and intimate process of psychotherapy. Everyone with an interest in the art and science of psychotherapy - practitioners, patients, students, and avid readers of Freud, Jung, et al-will find this lively anthology an engrossing read. A varied mix of essays, book chapters, case histories, and compelling fiction written by veterans of both sides of "the couch" and representing many schools of thought, Inside Therapy includes: Janet Malcolm's The Impossible Profession * Mark Epstein's Thoughts Without a Thinker * Eric Fromm's The Art of Listening * A. M. Homes's In a Country of Mothers * Theodore Reik's The Third Ear * and others. The foreword by Irvin D. Yalom, author of Love's Executioner, offers additional wisdom, humor, and perspective. At a time when managed care threatens the psychoanalytic tradition, this dramatic, inspiring collection reminds us of the healing power of insight and the unique gifts of the patient-therapist relationship.

Topographies of Popular Culture

Topographies of Popular Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781443899161
ISBN-13 : 144389916X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Topographies of Popular Culture by : Maarit Piipponen

Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular culture, the book identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular. In combining the study of popular texts with a broad variety of geographical contexts, the volume presents a global and cross-cultural approach to popular culture’s topographies. In part, Topographies of Popular Culture takes its cue from recent theorisations of spatiality in the field of critical theory, and from such global transformations as the processes and after-effects of decolonisation and globalisation. It contemplates the spatiality of genre and the interactions between the local and the global, as well as the increasing circulation and adaptation of popular texts across the globe. The ten individual chapters analyse the spaces of popular culture at a scale that extends from an individual’s everyday experience to genuinely global questions, offering new theoretical and analytical insights into the relation between spatiality and the popular.

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 471
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ISBN-10 : 9780429516559
ISBN-13 : 042951655X
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Sonic Encounters with Blanchot by : Adam Potts

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who listen closely to the sounds and resonances emanating from within Blanchot’s work and who consider their significance both within his work and beyond. The latent and explicit sonic content of Blanchot’s writing is explored, as is his treatment of music and the possibilities of thinking about contemporary music and sound art through his work. Although Blanchot is best known for his engagement with literature, an engagement that often relies on visual references and experiences, this collection takes a sonic route into one of the most exciting and demanding thinkers of the twentieth century. As an interdisciplinary exploration of sound and Blanchot’s work, this book will be interest to those studying sound in literature and music, as well as students of Blanchot’s work in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy

Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 173
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ISBN-10 : 9780786491520
ISBN-13 : 0786491523
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Caroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy by : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter

This filmography (including television and music video appearances) chronicles the career of Caroline Munro, a woman of humble beginnings whose chance entry in a "Face of the Year" photo competition propelled her to international fame as a model and actress, and whose work in genre cinema has won her the well-earned title of "First Lady of Fantasy." It provides complete technical and cast credits for each film, a synopsis, reviews and notes, and a foreword by Caroline Munro.

Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe

Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe
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Publisher : Associated University Presse
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 087413014X
ISBN-13 : 9780874130140
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Narcissism and Paranoia in the Age of Goethe by : Alexander Mathäs

"The analyses of poems, narratives, dramas, and critical texts by Moritz, Schiller, Herder, Tieck, Goethe, Lavater, and others shed new light on how progress in the medical, philosophical, and anthropological discourses of the time converge with aesthetic and literary considerations." "The volume illustrates how aspects of Freud's psychology have grown out of notions of subjectivity not confined to the Victorian age, as is often assumed, but with roots in the contradicting values of bourgeois emancipation."--Jacket.