Taking Back the United Methodist Church General Conference by Mark Tooley

Modern Culture (Continuum Compact Series)

What will we suggest by way of 'culture'? This observe, purloined by means of newshounds to indicate all kinds of collective behavior, lies on the centre of up to date debates concerning the previous and way forward for society.  during this thought-provoking publication, Roger Scruton argues for the spiritual foundation of tradition in all its types, and mounts a defence of the 'high tradition' of our civilization opposed to its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics.

Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination: Music, Film, and Photography

As we withdraw further from American canonical literature and poetry and stream toward a re-appraisal of literature’s impression upon the humanities via media, we could simply discover a fit for higher humanism and renowned interplay in American rock tradition via Paul Bowles. during this paintings, Bowles is re-invented in the postmodern, the postcolonial, and the renegade destiny underscored by means of liberal elites that had breathed new lifestyles into the yank counterculture.

China's Encounter with Global Hollywood: Cultural Policy and the Film Industry, 1994-2013 (Asia in the New Millennium)

In recent times, the movie within the People's Republic of China has discovered itself one of the best 3 so much prolific on the planet. while the chinese language govt brought a brand new revenue-sharing approach in 1994, the nation's overall motion picture output skyrocketed with gross box-office receipts totaling billions of yuan.

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

“Morgan has given a complete iteration of black feminists area and language to middle their pleasures along their politics. ” —Janet Mock, long island occasions bestselling writer of Redefining Realness “All that after which a few, Chickenheads informs and educates, confronts and charms, increases the bar excessive through getting down low, and, to thieve my favourite Joan Morgan word, bounced me out of the room.