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Discovering Orson Welles

Discovering Orson Welles

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The book is also a chronicle of Rosenbaum's highly personal writer's journey and his efforts to arrive at the truth.
Movies as Politics

Movies as Politics

Jonathan Rosenbaum

In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene.
Dead man

Dead man

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Indeed 'Dead man', with its dark and unconventional treatment of violence, racism and capitalism, may be Jarmusch's finest work to date. This is Jonathan Rosenbaum's view.
Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons

Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons

Jonathan Rosenbaum

When there's a subject he's spent decades thinking on, he's nonpareil."— Newcity "This is a road map for anyone who cares about discovering new cinematic terrain."— Choice Jonathan Rosenbaum is film critic for the Chicago Reader and the ...
The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural ...

The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural ...

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... in Contemporary Japan Pursuing identities, fashioning lives Anne Stefanie Aronsson Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature Edited by Kristina IwataWeickgenannt and Roman Rosenbaum DecisionMaking Reform in ...
Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

Roman Rosenbaum

Inoue, Shun, 'The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo', in Stephen Vlastos, ed.,MirrorModernity: Invented Traditions ofModern Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998, 163–173. Ito, Kimio, 'The ...
Descendants of Deacon Ephraim Sayre

Descendants of Deacon Ephraim Sayre

Harrison Monell Sayre

DESCENDANTS OP EPHRAIM SAYRE 57. 240* RALPH SAYRE, b. Deo. 15, 1892; B.3., Belolt College, 1914, M.S., U. W., 1915. m. Peb. 6, 1923, Sylvia Rosenbaum, daughter of Jacob Rosenbaum and Selma Lifachnltz, Mllford, Conn.
Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation

Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation

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Roman Rosenbaum is an Honorary Associate in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. He researches on prewar and postwar Japanese literature and cultural studies, with particular focus on graphic narratives and manga. His recent ...
Graphic History: Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History

Graphic History: Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE GEKIGA TRADITION: TOWARDS A GRAPHIC RENDITION OF HISTORY ROMAN ROSENBAUM Abstract This paper investigates the historical implications of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's gekiga movement in Japan.
Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation

Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The Yakeato Generation

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Available online at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/ biennialconference/2006/proceedings.html Panel Title: True Survivors: the ' yakeato sedai' in Contemporary Japanese Literature – Panel B302 Chair: Roman Rosenbaum Yasuko ...
Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, ...

Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, ...

Anne Stefanie Aronsson

... the Representation of Japanese History Edited by Roman Rosenbaum Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan Edited by Rachael Hutchinson EU– Japan Relations, 1970–2012 From confrontation to global partnership Edited by Jörn Keck, ...
Von Paraguay bis Punk: Medien und Krieg vom 19. bis zum 21. ...

Von Paraguay bis Punk: Medien und Krieg vom 19. bis zum 21. ...

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International Journal of Comic Art 9 (2007), 1,591–609. # Cartoons: Japanese # Kobayashi, Yoshinori # Motomiya, Hiroshi: Kuniga moeru # Second Sino- Japanese War 639] Roman Rosenbaum. »The ›Generation of the Burnt-Out Ruins‹«.
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering: History and ...

Japanese Women in Science and Engineering: History and ...

Naonori Kodate

... the Representation of Japanese History Edited by Roman Rosenbaum Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan Edited by Rachael Hutchinson EU– Japan Relations, 1970–2012 From confrontation to global partnership Edited by Jörn Keck, ...
Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

Visions of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture and Literature

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Roman Rosenbaum. First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor ...
General Instruction of the Roman Missal

General Instruction of the Roman Missal

Roman Church

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (G.I.R.M.), from the Roman Missal, promotes active, conscious participation of the faithful in the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution

Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus.
The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution

Ronald Syme

The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus.
Isis and Sarapis in the Roman world

Isis and Sarapis in the Roman world

Sarolta A. Takács

Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World deals with the integration of the cult of Isis among Roman cults, the subsequent transformation of Isis and Sarapis into gods of the Roman state, and the epigraphic employment of the names of these two ...
Discovering the Roman family: studies in Roman social history

Discovering the Roman family: studies in Roman social history

K. R. Bradley

These essays on various aspects of family life in ancient Rome offer an especially timely and provocative new characterization of how this most elementary component of Roman society was structured.
Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture

Prudence J. Jones

Sarolta A. Takács, Editor With the introduction of this series, Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, we hope to enhance understanding of the ancient Roman world. This empire was multicultural and lasted, from a mythological ...
The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of ...

The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of ...

Alexander Kyrychenko

What is the literary function of centurions in the story of Luke-Acts? To answer this question, the book considers these NT texts alongside the Greco-Roman and Jewish sources that offer insights into the Roman military.
The Legacy of Rome: Scotland's Roman Remains

The Legacy of Rome: Scotland's Roman Remains

L. J. F. Keppie

In this revised edition, Lawrence Keppie sets out various stages of Roman occupation in historical context and shows how literary and archaelogical evidence can be used to build up a picture of the Roman period.
Roman Art

Roman Art

Donald Emrys Strong

First published in 1976, this standard work on the subject traces the development of Roman art from its beginings to the end of the fourth century AD, embracing the monuments of the Republic and then of the later Roman empire, demonstrating ...
Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from ...

Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from ...

Elaine Fantham

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry ...
Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire

Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire

W. V. Harris

This book explains the growth, durability and eventual shrinkage of Roman imperial power alongside the Roman state's internal power structures.
The later Roman empire today: papers given in honour of ...

The later Roman empire today: papers given in honour of ...

D. F. Clark

A collection of original research articles relating to Roman historical and epigraphic studies presented in honor of Professor John Mann. Supported by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
Roman Theatre

Roman Theatre

Timothy J. Moore

Tragedy in the Roman Republic Roman audiences of Plautus and Terence's day enjoyed tragic as well as comic drama. Several playwrights adapted Athenian tragedies, including those of the great fifth—century playwrights Aeschylus, ...
Religion in Roman Britain

Religion in Roman Britain

Mr Martin Henig

Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence.
Roman Law: An Historical Introduction

Roman Law: An Historical Introduction

Hans Julius Wolff

In this book an international authority on Roman legal history sets forth in clear, understandable English the institutions of Roman law and traces their development through the Byzantine Empire into medieval and modern Europe.

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