Acham, Christine.

Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power.

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0816644314. BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal octavo. Pp. xv, 238. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. HARDCOVER, with dust-jacket. ~ FIRST EDITION. _O-2 .

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Boeknummer: 2244

Catalogus: Art and Modern Culture: New Books

Trefwoorden: SOCIAL CULTURAL STUDIES LIFESTYLE HISTORY MASS MEDIA POPULAR FILM TELEVISION AFRICAN AMERICAN NOISBN 0816644314

TOM ADAMS

Grass Roots

Citadel Press. 1991. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1991/Gd. condition/358 pages - Discusses how ordinary people are changing america. A practical guide to fighting back and winning, with lessons from members of different groups. [AT727630]. Good.

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Boeknummer: 27630

Catalogus: Training Manuals

Trefwoorden: society, laws, ethnoloogy, culture, people, civilization, act up, earth first, madd, vietnam veterans of america, american for responsible television, training manuals

ALLEN, Robert C.

Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism.

Routledge, 1993 (1992). Reprint of the second edition. Paperback. Some penning, pencilling, and highlighting. 420pp. ISBN 0415080592.

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Boeknummer: 61815

Trefwoorden: television media sociology social culture cultural criticism theory

S. Allen Counter , David L. Evans

I sought my brother. An Afro-American Reunion

MIT Press, 1981. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 276. "This book chronicles the last days of the purity of what has been for three centuries one of the world's most unusual cultural enclaves." -Alex Haley "The two scientists made a personal discovery in Suriname. As a social anthropologist, I was fascinated by their story." -Colin M. Turnbull I Sought My Brotheris a unique history of a black people living deep within the jungles of South America who not only survived attempts to enslave them but who have triumphed with their original African culture intact. It also provides the only permanent record of a way of life that may soon vanish as new technologies are brought to this remote area. The story of a meeting between Allen Counter, a neurobiologist, David Evans, an electrical engineer, and the African-descended people of the Suriname rain forest was first told in the film, "I Sought My Brother," which appeared on National Public Television and in countries throughout the world. Now, in this pictorial essay Counter and Evans condense their experiences over and eight-year period into one long reunion with the bush tribes whose African ancestors escaped into the jungle after being transported to Suriname by 17th-century Dutch slave ships. They were victorious over the colonialists during a century of guerrilla warfare, winning their independence by formal treaties before North Americans won theirs from the British. Since then, they have carried on their traditional way of life with freedom and dignity. The book traces Counter and Evans's discovery of this well-preserved African presence in the New World and their dangerous journey over river waters filled with rapids, rocks, and piranha that took them several hundred miles into the interior and centuries backward in time to thatched-roof villages and an exciting and highly emotional meeting with the Bush Afro-Americans. They are greeted by the headman who asks them if they are still bakra schlaffra,or "white man's slaves," and who wants to know if they have won their fight. "The battle is still being fought," the authors reply. The text and hundreds of illustrations document their participation in village life-hunting and fishing, childbirth, medical practices, religious rituals, dance, building a house and a canoe-and in unfamiliar, "primitive," and holistic customs. In turn, the authors delight their hosts with cassette recordings of Otis Redding, Lightnin' Hopkins, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder, and eventually with their own film of the reunion. ISBN: 0262030799. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2052714

Catalogus: Geschiedenis

Trefwoorden: 0262030799

Andreas Fickers 106968, Pascal Griset 260334

Communicating Europe. Technologies, Information, Events

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2019. Hardcover. Pp: 486. Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet. This volume reveals these connecting technologies' geopolitical importance and their crucial relationships with culture, commerce, and communities. Also the authors critically examine their spatial dimensions and transnational implications - as material objects with particular qualities, as elements in institutional complexes, and as 'vehicles' carrying complex symbolic meanings. Through in-depth assessments of critical, as well as mundane, events in the history of communications and information, these analyses will significantly alter conventional perspectives both on communications and on modern European history. ISBN: 9780230308039. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2855598

Catalogus: Geschiedenis

Trefwoorden: 9780230308039

Andrews, Bart

The Tv Addict's Nostalgia, Trivia & Quizbook

New York, Greenwich House, [1984]. First printing. Hardcover. Oversized. 184 p. illus. Very good condition/good.

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Boeknummer: 21524

Trefwoorden: Television Popular Culture

Ang, Ien.

Desperately seeking the audience.

London : Routledge , 1991. Paperback. xii,203 pp. 24 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the television institutions. Ang draws on Foucault's theory of power/knowledge to scrutinize television's desperate search for the audience, and to identify differences and similarities in the approaches of American commercial television and European public service television to their audiences. She looks carefully at recent developments in the field of ratings research, in particular the controversial introduction of the people meter' as an instrument for measuring the television audience. By defining the limits and limitations of these institutional procedures of knowledge production, Ien Ang opens up new avenues for understanding television audiences. Her ethnographic perspective on the television audience gives new insights into our television culture, with the audience seen not as an object to be controlled, but as an active social subject, engaging with television in a variety of cultural and creative ways. ISBN 9780415052702.

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Boeknummer: #185569

Trefwoorden: MEDIA,

ANGELOU, MAYA

My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me

New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1994. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0370323807. Illustrated by Margaret Courtney-Clarke. Color Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and edges of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Maya Angelou born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) , tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.". Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Boeknummer: 36474

Catalogus: Young Adult

Trefwoorden: 0370323807 Young Adult Africa Maya Angelou Margaret Courtney-Clarke African lifestyle Culture Color Beauty

ARMANDO (HENDRIK DIRK VAN DODEWEERD, 1929-),

ARMANDO: De Verzameling Armando Museum Amersfoort. [Eerste druk; First edition].

Amersfoort, Armando Museum, 1998. Large square 8°. Blind stamped black velvet covered boards. 62pp. Many captioned monochrome plates and illusrations in text of which featuring Armando at work during hisperformances, which includes an illusrated section at rear about his T.V. parody together with Cherry Duyns:Herelonleed, titles of chapters printed in bold silver tooled typebiography, table of sculptures, movies about Armando, theatre performances, bibliography, original CD tipped-in on verso of front cover, in its original clearview plastic bag, text on CD bound-up of facing page, [2]pp., illustrated front cover. Dutch language survey about contents of the Armando Museum, Amersfoort City, Gelderland Province. Unfortunately the Museum caught fire in 2011, a part of the collection was saved and is now housed in the former Country Estate Oud Amelisweerd, near Utrecht. An iteresting publication in good condition. Armando, famous dutch multi-tasking artist, performer, poet and author, theatre and television artist and performer, art collector and newspaper correspondent and columnist, active member of a variety of dutch art and literary currents as De Nieuwe Stijl, Gard Sivik, Liga Nieuw Beelden, ec. Armando himself considers his work and performances as Gesamtkunstwerk, an art object comprising all angles of artwork.

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Boeknummer: 55254

Trefwoorden: armando museum amersfoort gelderland collection theatre performances parody herenleed cherryduyns culture heritage legacy music

ARMANDO (HENDRIK DIRK VAN DODEWEERD, 1929-),

De kleine verschijnselen=Minor Incidents. English translation by Arnold Julius Pomerans (1920-). [Eerste druk; First editio, thus].

Middelburg, S.B.K.-Zeeland, 1991. Small 8°. (150x110mm.). Original blank stiff wrappers, black coloured dustjacket. [8] unnumbered pp. of texts in dutch and english and a centrefold monochrome drawing by Armando, Colophon, Biogr. note to Armando on lower inner flap of jacket, table of S.B.K.-Zeeland, Slibreeks, publications on inside front inner flap. Slibreeks nr. 25. Limited edition of 1000 copies printed. A very interesting bi-langual literary texxts by Armando, famous dutch multi-tasking artist, performer, poet and author, theatre and television artist and performer, art collector and newspaper correspondent and columnist, active member of a variety of dutch art and literary currents as De Nieuwe Stijl, Gard Sivik, Liga Nieuw Beelden, ec. Armando himself considers his work and performances as Gesamtkunstwerk, an art object comprising all angles of artwork.

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Boeknummer: 55089

Trefwoorden: armando slibreeks texts literature performance artist culture heritage legacy dutch

Hrsg. Armando Silva, Text(e) von Carolina Aguerre, Tulio Hernández, Nelson Martinez, Lisbeth Rebollo, Nelly Richard, Armando Silva, Teresa Velázquez

Urban Imaginaries from Latin America documenta 11 2002 documenta11 Urbane Vorstellungswelten in Lateinamerika. Latin American Urban Imaginaries lateinamerikanische Städte Metropolen anthropologist Südamerika Stadtarchitektur stadt Städte city cities Architektur architct architecture architects villages lateinamerikanische Metropolen Metropole Stadtplanung media Fantasies Aesthetics Ästhetik . Armando Silva Carolina Aguerre, Tulio Hernández Urbane Vorstellungswelten in Lateinamerika. Latin American Urban Imaginaries Kassel civilization thesis south middle american continent texts statistics postcards television 2001 popular media portraits urban maps map Karten Okwui Enwezor Retrospektive Werkschau Sammlung Ausstellungsorte Museum Fridericianum documenta-Halle Kulturbahnhof / Balikino Binding-Brauerei Orangerie Karlsaue Kasseler Innenstadt Nordstadt Ausstellung Ausstellungskatalog Katalog exhibition catalogue selten rare öffentlicher Raum Aussenobjekte Skulpturausstellung Skulpturen objects art artist contemporary artists internationale zeitgenössische Künstler der Gegenwart international urban Skulpturenpark Skulpturenausstellung retrospective oeuvre hessen Deutschland

, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003. 320, 23 x 17 cm, Softcover. Zustand: 2. What constitutes an urban imaginary? According to the thesis of this project, drawn from the working papers, statistical analysis, and research of a team of urbanists, social historians, anthropologists led by Armando Silva in Bogota, Colombia, an urban imaginary is born precisely at the point where living in the city no longer denotes the condition of being urban. ISBN-10: ?3775790780 ISBN-13: ?978-3775790789 Eine Publikation der Documenta11. Studie zum Zustand der Stadtarchitektur der grossen lateinamerikanischen Metropolen." "What constitutes an urban imaginary? According to the thesis of this project, drawn from the working papers, statistical analysis, and research of a team of urbanists, social historians, and anthropologists led by Armando Silva in Bogot, Colombia, an urban imaginary is born precisely at the point where living in the city no longer denotes the condition of being urban. The urban in the context of this book explodes from the instrumentalization of categories of relationships whereby the urban in question is not only the collectivization of lived and imagined possibilities in a complex network of space and time, it also draws out a new dimension of possible civic reterritorializations worked out of a temporal flux. According to the logic which Silva and his collaborators impute to this reterritorialized phenomenon of urbanity in Latin American cities, the imagined city is most vivid to those who encounter it in the zone where a new urban paradigm writes over the old physical stain of the planned city. Thus the use of imaginaries presupposes not only the plurality of effects and patterns of urbanity, but also a group of dissimilar experiences that point towards common effects. Working from this logic, the urban imaginaries of this book stem from the specificity of 13 Latin American cities but are not necessarily circumscribed or determined by their physical geography. Urban Imaginaries from Latin America does not evoke a singular, totalized idea of urban culture from the South American continent, but rather sets the variety of cultures in dynamic relationship to each other through texts, statistics, postcards, television, and other popular media, portraits, and urban maps. Was ist eine urbane Vorstellungswelt? Dieses Projekt, entwickelt auf Grundlage der Untersuchungen, statistischen Analysen und Forschungsergebnisse einer Arbeitsgruppe von Urbanisten, Sozialhistorikern und Anthropologen unter der Leitung von Armando Silva aus Bogotá (Kolumbien), geht von der These aus, dass urbane Vorstellungswelten an dem Punkt entstehen, wo in der Stadt zu leben nicht mehr Notwendigerweise bedeutet, urban zu sein. Urbanität im Sinne dieses Buchs übersteigt die Instrumentalisierung von Kategorien von Beziehungen, so dass das Urbane nicht nur die kollektive Existenz erlebter und imaginierter Möglichkeiten in einem komplexen raum-zeitlichen System darstellt, sondern aus dem zeitlichen Fluss auch eine neue Dimension möglicher städtischer Reterritorialisierungen entsteht. Nach der Logik, die Silva und seine Mitarbeiter aus diesem reterritorialisierten Phänomen der Urbanität von lateinamerikanischen Städten ableiten, ist die Erfahrung der imaginierten Stadt am intensivsten, wenn man sie in solchen Zonen betrachtet, in denen ein neues urbanes Paradigma die alten physischen Markierungen der geplanten Stadt überschreibt. So setzt das Konzept der Vorstellungswelten nicht nur eine Pluralität von Rastern und Erscheinungsformen der Urbanität voraus, sondern auch eine Anzahl divergierender Erfahrungen, die auf gleiche Effekte verweisen. Dementsprechend beziehen die urbanen Vorstellungswelten dieses Buchs sich auf die spezifischen Gegebenheiten von dreizehn lateinamerikanischen Städten, sind aber nicht unbedingt an deren physische Geographie gebunden. »Urbane Vorstellungswelten in Lateinamerika« beschreibt keine singuläre, allumfassende Idee der urbanen Kultur auf dem südamerikanischen Kontinent, sondern setzt mit Hilfe von Texten, Statistiken, Postkarten, Fernsehen und anderen Massenmedien, Porträts und Stadtplänen die verschiedenen Kulturen in eine Vielzahl dynamischer Beziehungen zueinander. Urban Imaginaries from Latin America documenta 11 2002 documenta11 Urbane Vorstellungswelten in Lateinamerika. Latin American Urban Imaginaries lateinamerikanische Städte Metropolen anthropologist Südamerika Stadtarchitektur stadt Städte city cities Architektur architct architecture architects villages lateinamerikanische Metropolen Metropole Stadtplanung media Fantasies Aesthetics Ästhetik . Armando Silva Carolina Aguerre, Tulio Hernández Urbane Vorstellungswelten in Lateinamerika. Latin American Urban Imaginaries Kassel civilization thesis south middle american continent texts statistics postcards television 2001 popular media portraits urban maps map Karten Okwui Enwezor Retrospektive Werkschau Sammlung Ausstellungsorte Museum Fridericianum documenta-Halle Kulturbahnhof / Balikino Binding-Brauerei Orangerie Karlsaue Kasseler Innenstadt Nordstadt Ausstellung Ausstellungskatalog Katalog exhibition catalogue selten rare öffentlicher Raum Aussenobjekte Skulpturausstellung Skulpturen objects art artist contemporary artists internationale zeitgenössische Künstler der Gegenwart international urban Skulpturenpark Skulpturenausstellung retrospective oeuvre hessen Deutschland ISBN: 3775790780. Gewicht/weight: 1001 gr.

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Boeknummer: BN41678

Trefwoorden: lateinamerikanische Städte Metropolen anthropologist ISBN-10: ?3775790780 ISBN-13: ?978-3775790789 Urban Imaginaries from Latin America documenta 11 2002 documenta11 Urbane Vorstellungswelten in Lateinamerika. Latin American Urban Imaginaries lateinamerik

Ballard, J.G.

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard.

New York/ London, W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, 1st American edition, XIV,(2),1199 pag., hardcover with dustjacket (as new). = The American publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard is a landmark event. Increasingly recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic novelists, J. G. Ballard was a writer of enormous inventive powers, who, in the words of Malcolm Bradbury, possessed, like Calvino, a remarkable gift for filling the empty deprived spaces of modern life with the invisible cities and the wonder worlds of imagination. Best known for his novels, such as Empire of the Sun and Crash, Ballard rose to fame as the ideal chronicler of disturbed modernity (The Observer). Perhaps less known, though equally brilliant, were his devastatingly original short stories, which span nearly fifty years and reveal an unparalleled prescience so unique that a new word-Ballardian-had to be invented. Ballard, who wrote that short stories are the loose change in the treasury of fiction, easily ignored beside the wealth of novels available, regretted the fact that the public had increasingly lost its ability to appreciate them. With 98 pulse-quickening stories, this volume helps restore the very art form that Ballard feared was comatose. Ballard's inimitable style was already present in his early stories, most of them published in science fiction magazines. These stories are surreal, richly atmospheric and splendidly elliptical, featuring an assortment of psychotropic houses, time-traveling assassins, and cities without clocks. Over the next fifty years, his fierce imaginative energy propelled him to explore new topics, including the dehumanization of technology, the brutality of the corporation, and nuclear Armageddon. Depicting the human soul as being enervated and corrupted by the modern world (New York Times), Ballard began to examine themes like overpopulation, as in Billenium, a claustrophobic imagining of a world of 20 billion people crammed into four-square-meter rooms, or the false realities of modern media, as in the classic Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, a faux-psychological study of the sexual and violent reactions elicited by viewing Reagan's face on television, in which Ballard predicted the unholy fusion of pop culture and sound-bite politics thirteen years before Reagan became president. Given Ballard's heightened powers of perception, it is astonishing that the dehumanized world that he apprehended so acutely neither diminished his own febrile imagination nor his engagement with mankind, evident in every story, including two new ones for this American edition. So eerily prophetic is his vision, so commanding are his literary gifts, the import and insight of J. G. Ballard's deeply humanistic and transcendent works can only grow in years to come.

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Boeknummer: #7060

Trefwoorden: Buitenlandse literatuur

RALF BALTZER

Alles Gute! a German Course for Tv

Langenscheidt Publishing. 1991. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1991/Gd.condition/240 pages - Study guide. A german course for television. [TN336809]. Good.

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Boeknummer: 36809

Catalogus: Language

Trefwoorden: grammar, german, situations, vocabulary, culture, transformation, comprehension, berlin, television,

L. A. Banks

Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend

St. Martin's Press 2003 Paperback, 288pp. "There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.Here is an account of her legend. All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons--predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life's blood has been sucked from the body. These bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. But his unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces. Soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world. L. A. Banks is the author of the Vampire Huntress Legends series. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a master's in fine arts from Temple University. Banks considers herself a shape-shifter. She has written romance, women's fiction, crime and suspense, and, of course, dark vampire huntress lore. She lives with her daughter and her dog in an undisclosed lair somewhere in Philadelphia. All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. Come nightfall, however, she hunts vampires and demons--predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. But these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life's blood has been sucked from the body. Instead these bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. His unholy intentions have also drawn the focus of other hellish dark forces, and soon Damali finds herself being pulled deeper into the vast and horrifying vampire world. 'I highly recommend L. A. Banks' Vampire Huntress Series for use in courses ranging from high school to college . [My students] cannot stop talking about these works. Banks' writing is smart, poignant, and engaging. Students aren't able to put the books down. Each novel in the series brims with social critique and commentary . Students who engage in the work of L. A. Banks will leave the classroom with sharper critical thinking skills and a newfound joy of reading.'--Gwendolyn D. Pough, Syracuse University 'L. A. Banks's 'Minion' is one of the best vampire novels to teach in an undergraduate course, as I discovered through the experience of teaching it in my 'Vampires in Film and Literature' class. Students enjoyed its fast-paced story, its action scenes, its references to the music industry, and its combination of violence, love, and sensuality. The political dimension of Banks's novel through her depiction of the vampire council, and her references to drugs and racial interrelations, make this novel very rich in discussion topics that are greatly relevant to students nowadays. 'Minion' is an important contribution to the vampire mythology established since before Bram Stoker's 'Dracula.' Banks has written a vampire story that not only builds on its many literary predecessors, but also actually makes an important contribution to the genre. Banks's novel combines a highly readable style with rich, teachable substance. Her multiple-layered narrative lends itself to group discussion about topics ranging from the awkwardness of coming of age to representations of violence in the media and the legacy of vampire myths in popular culture (including the way her main character Damali resonates with the character of Buffy of Joss Whedon's hit television series). After reading an array of texts significant to the development of the figure of the vampire in literature and culture, including such well-known works as 'Dracula, Interview with the Vampire,' and 'Salem's Lot, 'my students cited 'Minion' as one of their favorite vampire novels due to its depictions of both a compelling central character and of a wide array of racial and social communities. Students reported being hooked by the story immediately and asked for the sequel to be read along with 'Minion' next time I teach my course. Student essays were enriched and class debates were enlivened through analyses of, and reactions to, Banks's sharply intelligent metaphors for political power and abuse of the social system, and array of interwoven cultural reference points. 'Minion' is also substantial and original enough in its approach to more serious issues to merit a place in an African American literature or twentieth-century novel course.'--Dr. Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Universite de Montreal 'We talk about the symbolism used in 'Minion 'and other literary devices the author uses to weave her tale of battle between the forces of good and evil within nature and the individual. We explain to the students that human beings not only battle the evil forces of their environment but also do battle within themselves in seeking out truth and knowledge. We compare 'Minion' with 'Beowulf 'and' Grendel 'to help the students understand how literature that is a thousand years old has transcended time and culture to tell the epic tale of the battle between the forces of good and evil in the universe. Pupils are able to identify with the hero in 'Beowulf' and, in this case, the heroine in 'Minion.' Students are able to apply skills of comparison and contrast, and successfully affix cause and effect relationships, to both pieces of literature . By using contemporary literature and novels, we help students appreciate the old works of literature and to see the value in all literature across cultures instead of viewing epic tales as boring or dreaded reading. Pupils are able to understand the values of courage, honor, etc. that are being taught in the above-mentioned works of epic prose.These are just a few ways we are using 'Minion' and 'The Awakening' and other contemporary literature to teach our students a love for reading.'--Shirley Person, North Miami Senior High School 'This book is one high energy, high octane ride. Fresh, fast and furious; the writing just . rocks!'--Susan Sizemore, author of 'Deceptions' (Laws of the Blood series) 'I highly recommend L. A. Banks' Vampire Huntress Series for use in courses ranging from high sch ", (ISBN: 9780312316808). Good.

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Boeknummer: 1232823

Catalogus: General

Trefwoorden: Fiction9780312316808 9780312316808

Banks, Marcus & Morphy, Howard; editors:

Rethinking Visual Anthropology

New Haven, Yale University Press, (1997). orig.boards. 24x16cm, x, 306 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Small cover mark. VG.
¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: H. Morphy & M. Banks "Introduction: Rethinking Visual Anthroplogy"; A. Grimshaw "The Eye in the Door: Anthropology, Film, & The Exploration of Inner Space"; E. Edwards "Beyond the Boundary: A Consideration of the Expressive in Photography & Anthropology"; P. Loizos "First Exits from Observational Realism: Narrative Experiments in Recent Ethnographic Films"; D.P. Martinez " Burlesquing Knowledge: Japanese Quiz Shows & Models of Knowledge"; F. Howard-Freeland "Balinese on Television: Representation & Response"; G. Born "Computer Software as a Medium: Textuality, Orality & Sociality in an Artificial Intelligence Research Culture"; G. Gillison "To See or Not To See: Looking as an Object of Exchange in the New Guinea Highlands"; F. Dussart "A Body Painting in Translation"; D. Battaglia "Displacing the Visual: Of Trobriand Axe-Blades & Ambiguity in Cultural Practice"; M. Banks "Representing the Bodies of the Jains"; J. Hendry "Pine, Ponds & Pebbles: Gardens & Visual Culture"; N. Thomas "Collectivity & Nationality in the Anthropology of Art"; D. MacDougall "The Visual in Anthropology".

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Boeknummer: BOOKS010862I

Trefwoorden: Visual Anthropology, Art, Ethnographic Film, Ethnography, Criticism, Social Theory, , ,