Entranced Earth looks at audiovisual, literary, performative, and testimonial sources to examine the impact of neocolonial extractivist industries on the natural environment in the Western Hemisphere.
This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women’ s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary.
An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino explores the wound as a cornerstone of twentieth-century storytelling—from the invention of literary modernity by Charles Baudelaire to the current postmodernist concerns of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek and the acclaimed but highly controversial filmmakers Michael Haneke and Quentin Tarantino.
Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has is the first study in English of the career and work of legendary Polish filmmaker Wojciech Has, the director of such classics as The Saragossa Manuscript and The Hourglass Sanatorium.
