Reference
Cinderella Dreams
The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture--romantic love and excessive consumption.
Hollywood Quarterly
The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States.
The Lost Land of Lemuria
During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis.
Women of Wine
Draws on interviews with dozens of leading women winemakers, estate owners, professors, sommeliers, wine writers, and others in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand.
At Full Speed
Breathtaking swordplay and nostalgic love, Peking opera and Chow Yun-Fat"™s cult followers"”these are some of the elements of the vivid and diverse urban imagination that find form and expression in the thriving Hong Kong cinema.
F Is for Phony
The essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs"¯ such as the fiction/documentary divide and the ethics of reality-based manipulation.
Identities, Borders, Orders
Informed by current debates in social theory, these contributors take up a variety of substantive, theoretical, and normative issues such as migration, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, democracy, and security.
In and Out of Morocco
Every summer for almost forty years, tens of thousands of Moroccan emigrants from as far away as Norway and Germany have descended on the duty-free smugglers"™ cove/migrant frontier boomtown of Nador, Morocco.
Medieval Conduct
Focusing on a broad range of texts from England, France, Germany, and Italy"”conduct and courtesy books, advise poems, devotional literature, trial records"”the contributors to Medieval Conduct draw attention to the diverse ways in which readers of this literature could interpret