Product Description: In the "classical" Hollywood studio era of the 1930s to the 1960s, many iconic Asian roles were filled by non-Asian actors and some-like Fu Manchu or Charlie Chan-are still familiar today. In Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film, Karla Rae Fuller tracks specific cosmetic devices, physical gestures, dramatic cues, and narrative conventions to argue that representations of Oriental identity by Caucasian actors in the studio era offer an archetypal standard...read more

Product Description: Details the numerous religious festivals that take place throughout the year and how they can be celebrated in the home. From Shrove Tuesday to Easter Sunday, pancakes to lamb, Celtic Bed Blessings to Prayers for Harvest, Tom Gunning lays out in an accessible and interactive fashion the ways in which we can take the spiritual into the personal...read more

Product Description: A range of ideas and approaches for renewing sacramental celebrations is presented and then also applied to the Sacraments of Initiation: baptism, confirmation, and Eucharist. The authors provide a valuable catechesis of the Sunday liturgy, as well as a range of tried and tested rituals for various occasions that support and nurture parish celebrations...read more

Product Description: In this second volume, the authors offer profound and important insights into the very nature of ritual, which they then apply to the Sacraments of Healing (reconciliation and anointing) and the Sacraments of Vocation (marriage and holy orders)...read more

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Product Description: This study examines the early work of Fritz Lang, proposing readings of the entire output of one of cinema's foremost directors. It emphasizes Lang's reflection on modernity, and hones in on the problem of identity and subjectivity in a progressively more automated, impersonal world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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