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Screening the City
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Contributor-Jude Davies, Contributor-Matthew Gandy, Contributor-Martin Gaughan, Contributor-Paul Gormley, Contributor-Peter Jelavich, Contributor-Jessie Labov, Contributor-Tyrus Miller, Contributor-John Orr, Paula J. Massood, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Carsten Strathausen, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-690-2, ISBN: 1-85984-690-4

"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."






Screening the City(1st Edition)
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Matthew Gandy, Martin Gaughan, Paul Gormley, Peter Jelavich, Jessie Labov, Tyrus Miller, Darrell Varga, Carsten Strathausen, Professor Jude Davies, Jude Davies, John Orr, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor John Orr, Dr Allan Siegel Md Phd, Professor David Sorfa, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Professor Mark Shiel, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-476-2, ISBN: 1-85984-476-6

"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."






Watersheds
Poetics and Politics of the Danube River (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History)
by Marijeta Bozovic, Matthew D. Miller, Micaela Baranello, Katherine Arens, Robert Dassanowsky, Jessie Labov, Robert Lemon, Amanda Lerner, Juliana Maxim, Robert Nemes, Tanya Richardson, Karl Solibakke, Jennifer Stob, Professor Henry Sussman, Tomislav Longinović, Dragan Kujundžić, Dragan Kujundž Ić, Academic Studies Press
Hardcover, 414 Pages, Published 2016 by Academic Studies Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61811-487-7, ISBN: 1-61811-487-5

"From the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europe's second longest river connects ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The Danube serves as an artery of a culturally diverse geographic region, frustrating attempts to divide Europe from non-Europe, and facilitating the flow of economic and cultural forms of international exchange. Yet the river has attracted surpri ..."






Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond
Transnational Media During and After Socialism
by Jessie Labov, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Friederike Kind-Kovaacs
Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2013 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-586-4, ISBN: 0-85745-586-9

"Rpt. of O. Mandel'shtam, Kamen'. Stikhi, S. Peterburg, Akme, 1913. 33 p. 18 cm. Pilniak, Boris i Mikhail Zoshchenko. Stati i materialy [Articles and Materials]. 117p + 94 p. 20 cm.//Rpt. of Boris Pil'niak, Stati i materialy, Leningrad: Academia, 1928, 117 p. + M. Zoshchenko, Stati i materialy, Leningrad: Academia, 1928.94 p. 21 cm. Tomashevskii, Boris. Teoriia literatury [Theory of Literature] 239 p. 23 cm.// Rpt. of B. Tomashevski ..."






Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond(1st Edition)
Transnational Media During and After Socialism (Contemporary European History)
by Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov
Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2015 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78238-918-7, ISBN: 1-78238-918-0

" In many ways what is identified today as “cultural globalization” in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat (“do-it-yourself” underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding ..."






Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond(1st Edition)
Transnational Media During and After Socialism (Contemporary European History) (Studies in Contemporary European History)
by Jessie Labov, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Chrystine Brouillet
Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2013 by Berghahn Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-585-7, ISBN: 0-85745-585-0

"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products that was instigated and sustained by these practices. By exp ..."






Transatlantic Central Europe
Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture Beyond the Nation
by Jessie Labov
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2018 by Ceu Pr Kis-Buda Ctr Nonprofit Kft
ISBN-13: 978-615-5053-29-0, ISBN: 615-5053-29-4

"While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term "Central Europe" carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and intellectual project it has receded from the horizon. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of these countries―all involved now in the process of Transatlantic integration―used "Central European", as a contestation with the geo-political label of Eastern Europe. Th ..."






Transatlantic Central Europe
Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation
by Jessie Labov
230 Pages, Published 2019 by Central European University Press
ISBN-13: 978-615-5053-14-6, ISBN: 615-5053-14-6

"Of the four essays on Kiš, the one that gives the most extraliterary information is Serge Shishkoff's “Košava in a Coffee Pot: Or a Dissection of a Literary Cause Célèbre” (1987). It is a lengthy and detailed account of the polemics generated by ..."

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