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Cultural studies
Paperback. A critical analysis of the important ways in which La Llorona--the Weeping Woman--has shaped Mexican cultural identity, from folktales to acts of political resistance. Num Pages: 302 pages, 30 halftones, 12 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFCA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292718128
- ISBN
- 9780292718128
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€ 32.99€ 29.90
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Paperback. Providing an introduction to cultural studies, regardless of chronological or geographic focus, and presenting various readings from Latin American writers, this book brings the concepts of cultural studies and postmodernism. It guides readers through five identity constructs, including nation, race, and gender. Num Pages: 368 pages, 19 b&w illus., 2 line drawings, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717503
- ISBN
- 9780292717503
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€ 37.99€ 34.36
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Paperback. Soap opera speaks a universal language, presenting characters and plots that resonate far beyond the culture that creates them. This book presents an analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas. It assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; APT; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st PB Edition
- SKU
- V9780292717121
- ISBN
- 9780292717121
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
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Paperback. Presents an examination of those who survived Guatemala's civil war, and the mindset that helped them transform their society in the face of state-sanctioned terrorism. This book is drawn from interviews conducted in the early 1990s with more than eighty survivors of the state-sanctioned violence. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; HBJK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292716773
- ISBN
- 9780292716773
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
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paperback. Rancheros hold a distinct place in the culture and social hierarchy of Mexico. This work provides insight into the lives of rancheros, as seen from their own perspectives. It focuses on three culturally salient styles of speaking that characterize rancheros: franqueza; respeto; and relajo. Num Pages: 342 pages, 26 b&w photos, 4 maps, 4 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714830
- ISBN
- 9780292714830
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.05
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Paperback. The Mexican stereotypes - Speedy Gonzalez, 'Mexican Spitfire' Lupe Velez, and The Frito Bandito - are not a people but a text, a carefully woven, articulated, and consumer-ready commodity. This book deconstructs Tex[t]-Mexicans in films, television, advertising, comic books, toys, literature, and even critical theory. Num Pages: 264 pages, 26 color and 150 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 4531 x 661. Weight in Grams: 663.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292714571
- ISBN
- 9780292714571
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.60
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Paperback. Looks behind the generalities of debates about globalization to explore the personal impact of global forces on the Peruvian poor. This ethnography offers insight into how the people have coped with extreme poverty and rapid population growth - and their creation of lives and customs in the process. Num Pages: 280 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292713000
- ISBN
- 9780292713000
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
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Hardcover. The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD created the most elaborate system of iconographic representation of any ancient Peruvian culture. This book raises the analysis of Moche iconography to a level through a study of visual representations of rituals involving sex, death, and sacrifice. Num Pages: 272 pages, 259 b&w illus., 24 color photos in 16 page section. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 188 x 24. Weight in Grams: 824.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292712799
- ISBN
- 9780292712799
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Responding to the changes in Guatemala, the women there began organizing to gain an active role in the national body politic. This study examines the formation and evolution of the Guatemalan women's movement and assesses how it has been affected by, and has in turn affected, the forces of democratization and globalization. Num Pages: 169 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 1KLCM; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712539
- ISBN
- 9780292712539
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.76
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Paperback. Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of demeaning images of Latinos in US popular culture Series: Texas Film & Media Studies Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 41 b&w illus., 7 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292709072
- ISBN
- 9780292709072
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
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Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace. Num Pages: 332 pages, 13 b&w illus., 4 maps, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; JFC; JFFS; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 246 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705678
- ISBN
- 9780292705678
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
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Paperback. Following its entry into the European Union, Ireland changed radically from an impoverished, provincial, former British colony to a country where a farmer takes his wife on skiing holidays in Switzerland. This work debunks a good many stereotypes that prevent our seeing Ireland for what it was, as well as what it has become. Num Pages: 272 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press Indiana
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268042325
- ISBN
- 9780268042325
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.72
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hardcover. Seeks to understand the composer as he exists in the American imagination and explores how Beethoven became a cultural icon Num Pages: 418 pages, 61 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC4; AVH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 36. Weight in Grams: 722.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253357045
- ISBN
- 9780253357045
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Condition: New
€ 47.76
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Hardcover. Discusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US culture Num Pages: 200 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253356567
- ISBN
- 9780253356567
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Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
Paperback. Analyses questions of cultural violence Num Pages: 400 pages, 10 b&w illus., 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; JFC; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223098
- ISBN
- 9780253223098
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
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Paperback. How a TV show changed the way we hear America singing Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 b&w illus., 9 music exx. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; AVGP; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222718
- ISBN
- 9780253222718
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
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paperback. Beginning where stories of colonial liquor control and exploitation leave off, this title looks at the commerce of beer, it's valorising of male sociability and sports, and the corporate culture of South African Breweries, the world's most successful brewing company. Series: African Systems of Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFCV; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221803
- ISBN
- 9780253221803
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
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Paperback. The reinvention of identity in today's world Num Pages: 464 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219572
- ISBN
- 9780253219572
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.33
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Paperback. The 1930s to the 1950s in Italy witnessed large increases in film-going, radio-listening, and the sale of music and weekly magazines. This book draws on evidence, including oral histories and archival material, to explore possible continuities between the uses of mass culture before and after World War II. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219480
- ISBN
- 9780253219480
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
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paperback. If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age - the era in which visual activity achieved prominence. This book explores the visual media in 20th-century Germany in their critical and social contexts. It also presents the German cultural history during the 1900s. Editor(s): Finney, Gail. Num Pages: 320 pages, 22 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780253218339
- ISBN
- 9780253218339
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
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