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Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-century America

Product Description: A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema...read more

By Alison Griffiths

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9780231161060 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 16, 2016, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.

Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

Product Description: From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking...read more

By Alison Griffiths

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9780231129886 | 1 edition (Columbia Univ Pr, July 14, 2008), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking.

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9780231129893 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 11, 2013, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking.

Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs: The Life of Velma Johnston

Product Description: The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America’s mustangs captured the heart of the country.In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food...read more

By Alison Griffiths

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9781416553359 | Scribner, March 16, 2010, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food.

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9781416553366 | Scribner, February 23, 2013, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America’s mustangs captured the heart of the country.

Vancouver

Follows the epic human history of the city of Vancouver from the vantage points of coastal tribes who are driven out by treasure seekers, marooned Russian explorers, Scottish fur trappers, gold-hunting Chinese peasants, and penny-stock promoters. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By David Cruise and Alison Griffiths

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9780060197872 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Follows the human history of the city of Vancouver from the viewpoints of coastal tribes who are driven out by treasure seekers, marooned Russian explorers, Scottish fur trappers, Chinese peasants, and penny-stock promoters.

Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-Of-The-Century Visual Culture