"With actress Pam Grier's breakthroughs in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema is still viewed with ambivalence.…
This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialised bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity.
Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.
English and Japanese text explore the complexity of postwar Japanese art, focusing on the influence popular culture has had on Japanese art and tracing the development of the manga and anime genres.
"In this expose, Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to reveal how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations and 'think tanks' in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced …
The past few decades have seen a remarkable surge in Jewish influences on American culture. Entertainers and artists, such as Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, and Tony Kushner have heralded new waves of television, film, and theater; a major klezmer revival is under way; bagels are…
Architects today are increasingly subject to the dictates of the free market, globalism, and the gradual privatization of state institutions. Indeed, pressure to alter their projects to conform to market forces and popular taste has never been greater. Must successful design cor…
