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Taken By Muslims: Captivity Narratives In The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer And Prisoner Of Mountains, Claudia Springer Jun 2013

Taken By Muslims: Captivity Narratives In The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer And Prisoner Of Mountains, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


The International Dictionary Of Films And Filmmakers, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

The International Dictionary Of Films And Filmmakers, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Provides thorough coverage of films and filmmakers, including legendary films, actors and actresses, directors, writers and other production artists. Entries include a detailed essay written by an expert; biographies; filmographies; comprehensive credits; major awards; and updated bibliographies, as well as photographs. General and professional audiences.


The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three Matrix films, including the subsequent Web sites, computer games and The Animatrix films. Among the topics considered are the new cyberpunk, Baudrillarian simulacra, the politics of gender and race, the femme fatale, costume, cyberculture and the body, virtual realities and special effects. Discussing both the influences on the trilogy and the impact they have had since their release, the contributors to this collection provide critically innovative readings of the franchise. The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded is a long-awaited exploration of a …


Rebel Without A Cause: Approaches To A Maverick Masterwork, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Rebel Without A Cause: Approaches To A Maverick Masterwork, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Cybersexualities: A Reader On Feminist Theory, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Cybersexualities: A Reader On Feminist Theory, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.


Film Theory: Critical Concepts In Media And Cultural Studies, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Film Theory: Critical Concepts In Media And Cultural Studies, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

This major new collection identifies the critical and theoretical concepts which have been most significant in the study of film, presents chronologically the most influential and important writing on these concepts, provides an historical and intellectual context for the material presented. New introductions by the editors guide the reader through the work, and make this an essential source of ideas and insights for students and researchers in the field of Film Studies.


The Body: A Reader, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

The Body: A Reader, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as the body and social (dis)order, bodies and identities, bodily norms, bodies in health and dis-ease, bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin …


Technology And Culture: The Film Reader, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Technology And Culture: The Film Reader, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Technology and Culture: The Film Reader brings together key theoretical texts from more than a century of writing on film and technology. It begins by exploring the intertwined technologies of cinematic representation, reproduction, distribution and reception, before locating the technological history of cinema as one component of an increasingly complex technological culture. The selected articles encompass a range of disciplines, perspectives and methodologies, reflecting the multiplicity of contemporary approaches to technology. They are grouped into four thematic sections, each with an introduction by the editor: Origins and Evolution - examines the lineage of cinema's machines, while challenging the received notion …


Flame Wars: The Discourse Of Cyberculture, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Flame Wars: The Discourse Of Cyberculture, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Flame Wars, the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it—transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent interaction with machines, or with one another through technological interfaces. The subcultural practices of the "incurably informed," to borrow the cyberpunk novelist Pat Cadigan’s coinage, offer a precognitive glimpse of mainstream culture in the near future, when many of us will …


Cybercultures: Critical Concepts In Media And Cultural Studies, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Cybercultures: Critical Concepts In Media And Cultural Studies, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

This impressive set provides a historical contextualization and up-to-date overview of ‘cyberculture’ – a term understood as the cultural perspective on new information and communications technologies. Presenting a comprehensive account of the evolution, current forms, uses and theories of cyberculture, it brings together a wide range of case studies and thought to create a unique, broad-based resource. Divided into four volumes, each with three sections, the collection maps out key thinking, and features landmark publications as well as cutting-edge interventions. Reflecting the past, present and future developments of cyberculture studies, the selection of articles included in this important work highlight …


The Vietnam War And American Culture, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

The Vietnam War And American Culture, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Alien Zone Ii: The Spaces Of Science Fiction Cinema, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Alien Zone Ii: The Spaces Of Science Fiction Cinema, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Science fiction, more than any other film genre, allows cinema to exhibit its own distinctive matters of expression. Whether these be the state-of-the-art special effects technologies of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or the symbolic imagery of ruined cityscapes in Blade Runner, they allow the spectator to experience the totality of the audiovisual thrill. While this remains in many ways the core defining feature of the genre, recent trends in the study of science-fiction cinema have seen a shift of focus away from the specifically cinematic towards the more broadly cultural. New technologies of communication and vision, revolutionary developments in the …


The Cybercultures Reader, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

The Cybercultures Reader, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

The Cybercultures Reader brings together key writings covering the whole spectrum of cyberspace and related new technologies to explore the ways in which new technologies are reshaping cultural forms and practices at the turn of the century. The reader is divided into thematic sections focussing on key issues such as subcultures in cyberspace, posthumanism and cyberbodies, and pop-cultural depictions of human-machine interaction. Key features include: each section features an introduction locating the essays in their theoretical and technological context; editor's introduction and accompanying user's guide; extensive bibliography Issues include: theoretical approaches to cyberculture; representations in fiction and on film; the …


Sex/Machine: Readings In Culture, Gender And Technology, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Sex/Machine: Readings In Culture, Gender And Technology, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.


Electronic Eros: Bodies And Desire In The Postindustrial Age, Claudia Springer Apr 2013

Electronic Eros: Bodies And Desire In The Postindustrial Age, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfillment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality. Drawing on psychoanalytical and film theory, as well as the history of technology, Springer offers the first sustained analysis …


The Boy At The Keyhole Watching Bombshells, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

The Boy At The Keyhole Watching Bombshells, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Discusses 3 films ( Hope and Glory, Empire of the Sun, and Radio Days) that associate the Oedipal crisis with war. By placing boys at the age where they discover sexual differences, the films conflate wartime and sexual trauma.


Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam (Spanish Translation), Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam (Spanish Translation), Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Black Women Filmmakers, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Black Women Filmmakers, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Ethnocentric Circles: A Short History Of Ethnographic Film, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Ethnocentric Circles: A Short History Of Ethnographic Film, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Review Of Bodies Of Subversion: A Secret History Of Women And Tattoo, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Review Of Bodies Of Subversion: A Secret History Of Women And Tattoo, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Watch The Birdie: Image-Making And Wildlife Conservation, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Watch The Birdie: Image-Making And Wildlife Conservation, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Photography and the modern wildlife conservation movement became entwined soon after their shared emergence in the middle of the 19th century. This article analyzes how photography, film, video, and digital imaging have shaped the movement and continue to exert influence. Images often dictate our knowledge of animal species in the wild, but they can be deceptive, and they have hindered as well as helped conservation efforts. The profusion of wildlife conservation imagery and continued politicized debates over appropriate strategies make it important to investigate the conflicted alliance between mechanical reproduction and the conservation movement.


Vietnam: A Television History And The Equivocal Nature Of Objectivity, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Vietnam: A Television History And The Equivocal Nature Of Objectivity, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Reporters, Women, And The Third World In 1980s Film, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Reporters, Women, And The Third World In 1980s Film, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


The Seduction Of The Surface: From Alice To Crash, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

The Seduction Of The Surface: From Alice To Crash, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Review Of Independent Black, Chicano, And Asian Filmmaking In Los Angeles, A Panel At The Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Summer 1982, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Review Of Independent Black, Chicano, And Asian Filmmaking In Los Angeles, A Panel At The Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Summer 1982, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Rachel Berwick: Economies Of Desire, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Rachel Berwick: Economies Of Desire, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Antiwar Film As Spectacle: Contradictions Of The Combat Sequence, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Antiwar Film As Spectacle: Contradictions Of The Combat Sequence, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.