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Stagestruck Filmmaker
An actor, a vaudevillian, and a dramatist before he became a filmmaker, D. W. Griffith used the resources of theatre to great purpose and to great ends. In pioneering the quintessentially modern medium of film from the 1890s to the 1930s, he drew from older, more broadly appealing stage forms of melodrama, comedy, vaudeville, and variety. In Stagestruck Filmmaker, David Mayer brings Griffith’s process vividly to life, offering detailed and valuable insights into the racial, ethnic, class, and gender issues of these transitional decades. Combining the raw materials of theatre, circus, minstrelsy, and dance with the newer visual codes of motion pictures, Griffith became the first acknowledge...
Jackson's North State Street
Since the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, Jackson's North State Street has been home to some of the capital city's major architectural landmarks. North State Street was bordered by stately homes of many different styles and periods, from rather simple antebellum cottages, to grand Greek Revival, elaborate Queen Anne, and elegant Colonial Revival and neoclassical mansions, as well as impressive institutional buildings and churches. However, beginning in the early years of the Great Depression, many of these stately homes and buildings were lost, replaced by apartments, parking lots, and commercial buildings. Through the images in this book, those who never witnessed first hand the majesty of Jackson's North State Street will be able to gain some insight into what has been lost and truly appreciate what remains. For those who remember what North State Street was, this book will be a chance to revisit and reminisce about that lost era.
Disability Studies
Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society. Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and containing an afterword by Michael Bérubé (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich in its cast of characters (including John Bulwer, Teresa de Cartagena, Audre Lorde, Oliver Sacks, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman); in its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs); in its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, the modern United States); and in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography.
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The Federal Cases
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Feminist Perspectives on Family Law
Introduction : feminism and families plus ca change? / by Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan -- Family friendly? : rights, responsibilities, and relationship recognition / by Carl Stychin -- Shared households : a new paradigm for thinking about the reform of domestic property relations / by Anne Bottomley and Simone Wong -- What is a parent? / by Emily Jackson -- Parents in law : subjective impacts and status implications around the use of licensed donor insemination / by Caroline Jones -- After birth : decisions about becoming a mother / by Katherine O'Donovan and Jill Marshall -- The ethic of justice strikes back : changing narratives of fatherhood / by Carol Smart -- Domestic violence, men's groups and the equivalence argument / by Felicity Kaganas -- Feminist perspectives on youth justice / by Christine Piper -- Working towards credit for parenting : a consideration of tax credits as a feminist enterprise / by Ann Mumford -- The branch on which we sit: multiculturalism, minority women, and family law / by Maleiha Malik -- Feminist legal studies and the subject(s) of men : questions of text, terrain, and context in the politics of family law and gender / by Richard Collier.
Debating Euthanasia
In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate. Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On the contrary, Jackson argues that legalisation could extend and enhance the lives of people whose prese...
