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Film Studies

Reinventing Hollywood How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Bordwell David

ISBN: PB: 9780226639550, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
592 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 157 halftones

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different ch...

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Travel

Europe

Renaissance Prague

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...

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America

Renewal Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II

Wild Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226605234, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war and the Holocaust, and troubled by missionaries' complicity wi...

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Contemporary Art

Richard Rezac Address

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548731, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, March 2019
168 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm

The title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, "Address", plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a spe...

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America

Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Receptive Bodies

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226579764, ISBN: HB: 9780226579627, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
144 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 halftones

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book around a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin idea...

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Women Studies

Europe

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

Leong Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780226583662, ISBN: HB: 9780226583495, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified...

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Political Science

Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic

Lomazoff Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...

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Poetry

Roughly For the North

Ojanen Carrie

ISBN: PB: 9781602233621, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2018
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North" "Roughly for the North" is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an a...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Grosvenor

Ovstebo Solveig

ISBN: HB: 9780941548724, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, October 2018
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour plates

Over a fifty-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. Grosvenor frequently uses industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, res...

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