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Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s ...

Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s ...

Gennifer Weisenfeld

... by Amy Stanley Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary ...
Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Gennifer Stacy Weisenfeld

MAVO is the first book-length study in English that critically evaluates the Japanese artistic avant-garde (1905-1931) and its relationship to broader developments in modernism worldwide.
Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-garde, 1905-1931

Gennifer Stacy Weisenfeld

MAVO is the first book-length study in English that critically evaluates the Japanese artistic avant-garde (1905-1931) and its relationship to broader developments in modernism worldwide.
Spectacles of Authenticity: The Emergence of Transnational ...

Spectacles of Authenticity: The Emergence of Transnational ...

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Recent work by new scholars such as Alice Tseng, Maki Fukuoka, Alicia Volk, Chelsea Foxwell, and Gennifer Weisenfeld have embraced the complexity of Japanese modernity and done much to expand the historical field of Japanese art ...
The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto

28. 29. 30. The Missionary's Curse and Other. 23. 24. 25. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender ...
World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and ...

World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and ...

Robert H. Kargon

Gennifer Weisenfeld, “Touring JapanasMuseum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues,” Positions 8, no. 3 (2000): 747–93, esp. 748. 47. Andrea Germer, “Visual Propaganda in Wartime East Asia: The Case of Natori Yonosuke  ...
Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition

Elizabeth J. Perry

... by Amy Stanley Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923, by Gennifer Weisenfeld Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion, by Shawn Bender Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary ...
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in ...

Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in ...

Kim Brandt

... Cathy Ciepiela, Janet Gyatso, Margaret Hunt, Mark Jones, Mary Jones, Okamoto K ̄oichi, Janet Poole, Sean Redding, Jordan Sand, Andre Schmid, Mark Shapiro, Alan Tansman, Miriam Wattles, Gennifer Weisenfeld, and Kären Wigen.
Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American ...

Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American ...

Judith Weisenfeld

"This is a ground-breaking book. The text is remarkable in its use of MPAA files and studio archives; Weisenfeld uncovers all sorts of side stories that enrich the larger narrative.
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

Alexandra Popoff

Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 3. Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 25. Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 11. lbid., 10. Alexander Bahrah, Bunin vhalate (Moskva: Soglasie, 2000), 120—21. Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 12 .
Quicklet on Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life ...

Quicklet on Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life ...

Paul Kraly

Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff has used her award winning expertise in biography to examine a woman who is at once one of the ... Schiff's Cleopatra is a lively, well rounded woman who defies the stereotypes that have been bandied about for over ...
Preaching Justice: Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives

Preaching Justice: Ethnic and Cultural Perspectives

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15. Ibid. 16. Judith Weisenfeld, “We Have Been Believers: Patterns of African American Women's Religiosity,” in This Far by Faith: Readings in African American Women's Religious Biography, ed. Judith Weisenfeld and Richard Newman (New ...
Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban ...

Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban ...

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Eight Judith Weisenfeld ... American film has typically presented black religion as simplistic, sincere, instinctive, 155 Eight "Saturday Sinners and Sunday Saints": The Nightclub as Moral Menace in 1940s Race Movies Judith Weisenfeld.
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

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Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 2; Judith Weisenfeld, “We Have Been Believers: Patterns of African-American Women's Religiosity,” in This Far by Faith : Readings in African-American Women's Religious Biography, ed. Judith Weisenfeld ...
Spies, Inc.: Business Innovation from Israel's Masters of ...

Spies, Inc.: Business Innovation from Israel's Masters of ...

Stacy Perman

Now, Stacy Perman tells this incredible story...revealing the techniques of entrepreneurship on the fly, when failure is not an option.
Kleopatra. Biografia

Kleopatra. Biografia

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff w swojej książce odczarowuje Kleopatrę, zdejmując z niej, warstwa po warstwie, ów szlachetny kulturowy osad, oddzielając fakty od fikcji.
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time.
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History

Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History

Peter Rollins

... security to notions of masculinity. “Characteristics, actions, and reactions deemed feminine—such as diplomacy, negotiation, and compromise” have been systematically devalued in public discourse 488 / Stacy Takacs 22 / Stacy Takacs .
Cléopâtre

Cléopâtre

Stacy Schiff

Dans ce récit magistral, Stacy Schiff révèle par quel tour de passe-passe l’histoire a transformé une grande reine, incarnation même de la femme de pouvoir, en catin malfaisante.
Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Stacy Schiff

Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.
Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Stacy Schiff

This is Stacy Schiff's first book, but she writes with all the skill, assurance and mastery of an old literary hand. If there was such a thing as a prize for a first biography, I would nominate this book. ' Frank McLynn, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.
The Truth About Style

The Truth About Style

Stacy London

The New York Times bestselling style guide from the cohost of What Not to Wear It’s clear why Women’s Wear Daily hails Stacy London as “the Dr. Phil of fashion.” Since 2002, she’s transformed hundreds of guests on TLC’s hit show ...
Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies

Intellect Books

Stacy Takacs Oklahoma State University, American Studies, 700 North Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, 74106-0700, United States of America Keywords trauma, therapeutic rhetoric, militarism, US television, militainment Stacy Takacs is an Associate ...
TV Nationalisms: Reflections on the Contemporary State ...

TV Nationalisms: Reflections on the Contemporary State ...

Stacy Takacs

Reflections on the Contemporary State And/of US Imperialism Stacy Takacs. for being probably the sweetest, most supportive guy on the planet. Thanks for the pre-exam poem, which I still cherish, and all of the encouragement over the years .
The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis ...

The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis ...

Scott Kurashige

Stacy Perman, “The Real History of America's Most Authentic Fake Brand,” Inc. ( April 2016), http://www.inc.com/magazine/201604 /stacy-perman/shinola-watch- history-manufacturing-heritage-brand .html. 16. Joe Nocera, “Is Motown Getting Its ...
Camp Rolling Hills: Book One

Camp Rolling Hills: Book One

Stacy Davidowitz

" --Michael Showalter, co-writer of Wet Hot American Summer "Stacy Davidowitz gets the magic of camp and the wonder of being twelve just right. Camp Rolling Hills is both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Guide to Birding Coastal Mississippi: And Adjacent Counties

Guide to Birding Coastal Mississippi: And Adjacent Counties

Judith A. Toups

And Adjacent Counties Judith A. Toups, Jerry L. Bird, Stacy Jon Peterson. NATURE/Birdmg ... Audubon Society. Stacy Jon Peterson has observed and tracked all manner of bird, from flycatchers in Mississippi to hummingbirds in Idaho. ISBN ...
The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement ...

The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement ...

Daniel C. Esty

Stacy Perman, "Radical Green," Time 175, no. 15, April 12, 2010. 2. Stacy Perman, "Radical Green." 3. Michael Porter, "America's Green Strategy," Scientific American 264, no. 4, April 199 1. 4. "Irika Shipping to Pay $4M Penalty for Violating ...

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