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Product Description: Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America. Topics will address language, literature, art, diaspora identity, and civic and political engagement...read more
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9781557537287 | Purdue Univ Pr, December 15, 2015, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America includes academics, artists, writers, and civic and religious leaders who contributed chapters focusing on the Sephardi and Mizrahi experience in America.
Product Description: The second edition of Movies and American Society is a comprehensive collection of essays and primary documents that explore the ways in which movies have changed—and been changed by—American society from 1905 to the present. Each chapter includes an introduction, discussion questions, an essay examining the issues of the period, primary documents, and a list of further reading and screenings Includes a new chapter on “American Film in the Age of Terror” and new essays for Chapter 9 (“Race, Violence, and Film”) and Chapter 13 (“Hollywood Goes Global”), as well as updated Reading and Screenings sections Discusses all the major periods in American film history from the first nickelodeons to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the globalization of Hollywood Demonstrates the unique influence of movies on all aspects of American culture, from ideology, politics, and gender to class, war, and race relations Engaging and accessible for students, with jargon-free essays and primary documents that show social practices and controversies as well as the fun and cultural influence of movies and movie-going...read more
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9780631219590 | Blackwell Pub, June 17, 2002, cover price $152.95
Paperback:
9780470673645 | 2 edition (Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2014), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: The second edition of Movies and American Society is a comprehensive collection of essays and primary documents that explore the ways in which movies have changed—and been changed by—American society from 1905 to the present.
9780631219606 | Blackwell Pub, June 17, 2002, cover price $59.95
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9780195181722 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 6, 2011, cover price $74.00
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9780199975532 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2013), cover price $21.95
Product Description: This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691032344 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film.
Paperback:
9780691024646 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 14, 1999, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film.
Product Description: Workers On the Edge tells the dramatic and often tumultuous story of 100 years of American life. The author takes us from Cincinnatiâs artisan workshops to the modern machine age; from the optimistic promises of republicanism to the harsh realities of industrial capitalism...read more
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9780231055208 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $97.00 | About this edition: Workers On the Edge tells the dramatic and often tumultuous story of 100 years of American life.
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9780231055215, titled "Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890" | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1987), cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Workers On the Edge tells the dramatic and often tumultuous story of 100 years of American life.
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9780894131431 | Inst of Internal Auditors, December 1, 1985, cover price $33.00
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