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Global Photography: A Critical History
This innovative text recounts the history of photography through a series of thematically structured chapters. Designed and written for students studying photography and its history, each chapter approaches its subject by introducing a range of international, contemporary photographers and then cont... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Cold War Camera
Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography’s role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and highlight the signi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
New Thoughts On The Black Arts Movement
by Emily Bernard • James Smethurst • Lee Bernstein • Alondra Nelson • Margo Natalie Crawford • Kellie Jones • Erina Duganne • Lisa Gail Collins • Cherise Pollard • Cherise Smith • Wendy Walters • Michelle Joan Wilkinson • Lorrie Smith • Houston Baker • Adam Gussow • Rod Hernandez • Mary Ellen LennonDuring the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database (Contemporary Terrorism Studies)
This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers demonstrate how a very small number of terrorist at... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015