Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (Sexton Jared)(Paperback)

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing (Sexton Jared)(Paperback)

This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush's 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama's 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that

From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity (White Miles)(Paperback)

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms

Private Policing (Button Mark)(Paperback)

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of policing and explores in depth each of the main categories, examining the degree of privateness, amongst several

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity (Gregory Georgina)(Paperback)

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop group within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular music and culture. Offering the first extended look at pop masculinity as

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton (Sexton Anne)(Paperback)

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton comprises the poet's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment (Davis Angela J.)(Paperback)

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Policing the Black Man explores and critiques

The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (Mazierska Ewa)(Paperback)

'The Cinema of Nanni Moretti' provides an analysis and interpretation of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years and an outstanding figure in contemporary European cinema. Interdisciplinary and wide-ranging, the book uses Moretti's films as a lens to view and

Good Policing: Trust, Legitimacy and Authority (Hough Mike)(Paperback)

Renowned criminologist Mike Hough illuminates the principles and practices of good policing in this important analysis of the police service's legitimacy and the factors such as public trust that drive it. As concern grows at the growth in crimes of serious violence, he challenges conventional

The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States (Lave Tamara Rice)(Paperback)

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. This accessible, interdisciplinary work will be valuable for anyone interested in

Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State (Wozniak Jesse)(Paperback)

Policing Iraq chronicles the efforts of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq to rebuild their police force and criminal justice system in the wake of the US invasion. Jesse S. G. Wozniak conducted extensive ethnographic research during multiple stays in the KRG, observing such signpost

The Japanese Cinema Book (Fujiki Hideaki)(Paperback)

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its authors, it is the largest and most wide-ranging

The Life Cycle of a Ladybug (Sexton Colleen)(Paperback)

Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Wilderson Frank B.)(Paperback)

Red, White & Black is a provocative critique of socially engaged films and related critical discourse. Offering an unflinching account of race and representation, Frank B. Wilderson III asks whether such films accurately represent the structure of U.S. racial antagonisms. That structure, he argues,

Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms (White Patricia)(Paperback)

In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (Redmond Sean)(Paperback)

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal,

The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico (Lipsett-Rivera Sonya)(Paperback)

With limited resources to contextualize masculinity in colonial Mexico, film, literature, and social history perpetuate the stereotype associating Mexican men with machismo 'defined as excessive virility that is accompanied by bravado and explosions of violence. While scholars studying men (TM)s

Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification (Messerschmidt James W.)(Paperback)

The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification provides the first comprehensive overview of the

The Cinema of Hayao Miyazaki (Robinson Jeremy Mark)(Paperback)

THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI REVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the 'Japanese Disney', a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true phenomenon in contemporary

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity (Ferriss Suzanne)(Paperback)

Sofia Coppola and Cinema provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola's oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. Suzanne Ferriss considers the central role of fashion - in its various manifestations - to Coppola's films,

Times on Cinema(Pevná vazba)

The Times on Cinema opens The Times' and the Sunday Times' vast archives of reviews and coverage of Hollywood's most treasured films. Featuring many of cinema's most revered critics, including Philip French, Dilys Powell, Tom Shone and Kate Muir, whose award-winning journalism has often determined

The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism (Scott Ian)(Paperback)

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Kimmel Michael)(Paperback)

One of the most eminent scholars and writers on men and masculinity and the author of the critically acclaimed Manhood in America turns his attention to the culture of guys, aged 16 to 26: their attitudes, their relationships, their rules, and their rituals.'Kimmel is our seasoned guide into a

Life's a Gamble (Sexton Mike)(Paperback)

Mike Sexton won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, helped create PartyPoker in 2001 and was a key player in an event that changed the poker world forever - the launch of the World Poker Tour (WPT) In this book Mike recounts his personal experiences and gives his take on some of poker's

War and Cinema - The Logistics of Perception (Virilio Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and