"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 ..."
"Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic repre ..."
"Americanisation--the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA--has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This has been the case from the 19th century, when new and old worlds were negotiating fundamental issues such as race and empire, to the 20th century, when mass media communications intensified and reconfigured the transatlantic relationship. Developments since the Cold War, including the September 1 ..."
Diana, A Cultural History Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess by JudeDavies Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-73688-3, ISBN: 0-333-73688-5
"This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class, the royal, national identity, and the human. The book then goes on to assess the issues at ..."
"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 ..."
Diana, A Cultural History Gender, Race, Nation and the People’s Princess by JudeDavies 250 Pages, Published 2001 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-230-59825-6, ISBN: 0-230-59825-0
"Unofficially, the dresses became known as Diana's 'wardrobe of state'. The Daily
Telegraph reported that they represented the bulk of Diana's personal collection
of formal gowns, leaving only ten or so 'for evening engagements in her new
simpler and more serious life style'.66 More fully, as Cathy Horyn's feature 'Diana
Reborn' in the July edition of Vanity Fair put it, 'Princess Diana's decision to
auction 79 of the dresses she wo ..."
Diana, A Cultural History Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess by Dr JudeDavies Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-73689-0, ISBN: 0-333-73689-3
"This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class, the royal, national identity, and the human. The book then goes on to assess the issues at ..."