Author: Catherine Russell File Type: pdf Catherine Russells highly accessible book approaches Japanese cinema as an industry closely modeled on Hollywood, focusing on the classical period - those years in which the studio system dominated all film production in Japan, from roughly 1930 to 1960. Respectful and thoroughly informed about the aesthetics and critical values of the Japanese canon, Russell is also critical of some of its ideological tendencies, and her analyses provide new insights on class and gender dynamics. Russell locates Japanese cinema within a global system of reception, and she highlights the importance of the industrial production context of these films. Including studies of landmark films by Ozu, Kurosawa and other directors, this book provides a perfect introduction to a crucial and often misunderstood area of Japanese cultural output. With a critical approach that highlights the everydayness of Japanese studio-era cinema, Catherine Russell demystifies the canon of great Japanese cinema, treating it with fewer auteurist and Orientalist assumptions than many other scholars and critics.

Author: William H. Nienhauser File Type: pdf A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-date information (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhausers now two-volume title stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditional Chinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published. -- ChoiceThe second volume to The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. Volume II includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditional Chinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) of editions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.ReviewWith this volume, Nienhauser (Univ. of Wisconsin) updates and supplements the first volume of Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (CH, Jul87). The supplement portion of this latest Companion includes more than 60 informative entries on major writers, works, and genres not included in the first volume. Prominent examples include Chin Kuan, 1049 -- 1100, Chuang Tzu, and childrens literature (er -- tung wen -- hsAeh (wen -- hsueh) ). In general, these and other entries are a bit longer and more detailed than those in the first Companion. The update portion appears in the form of a bibliography, running almost 300 pages in length, which provides supplementary bibliographical references (mostly in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German, covering 1984 through 1996) to the more than 500 entries that make up the 1986 bibliography. A veritable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up -- to -- date information (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhausers now two -- volume title stands alone as the standard reference work for the study of traditional Chinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published. Mandatory for all academic libraries and most large public libraries.J. M. Hargett, SUNY at Albany, Choice, April 1999(J. M. Hargett, SUNY at Albany Choice 1999) About the AuthorWilliam H. Nienhauser, Jr. is Hall-Bascom Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Wisconsin. In 1979 he helped found the journal Chinese Literature Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), which he continues to edit. Among his publications are articles in a number of major journals as well as several books, including The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, Volume I.Charles Hartman is the author of Han Yu and the Tang Search for Unity as well as numerous articles on Tang and Sung literature. He is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Albany.Scott W. Galer studied at Brigham Young University and the University of Colorado and is now working on a reconstruction and analysis of the first comprehensive Shi chi commentary.

Author: Patrick Olivelle File Type: pdf The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institutions and of the historical changes they underwent during a period of a thousand years or more. Beginning with an analysis of the historical context that gave rise to Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies, Patrick Olivelle moves on to elucidate the meaning of renunciation-the central institution of holiness in most Hindu traditions-and the function and significance of the various elements that constitute the rite of renunciation. The Samnyasa Upanisads will be an unparalleled source of information and insight for students of Hinduism and Indian asceticism, mysticism, and holiness. **

Author: Charles R. Beitz File Type: pdf Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shues 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and international relations--Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, Elizabeth Ashford, Thomas Pooge, Neta Crawford, Richard Miller, David Luban, Jeremy Waldron and Simon Caney--to explore some of the most challenging theoretical and practical questions that Shues work provokes. These range from the question of the responsibilities of the global rich to redress severe poverty to the permissibility of using torture to gain information to fight international terrorism. The contributors explore the continuing value of the idea of basic rights in understanding moral challenges as diverse as child labor and global climate change.Review[This book] offers excellent, in some cases path-breaking, contributions by outstanding political philosophers and theorists, including Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Elizabeth Ashford, Simon Caney, Neta Crawford, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, David Luban, Richard Miller, Thomas Pogge, Christian Reus-Smit, and Jeremy Waldron. Global Basic Rights is obligatory reading for anyone interested in global justice and the philosophical inquiry about rights.--EthicsAbout the AuthorCharles R. Beitz is Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He has written books and articles in global political theory (The Idea of Human Rights, OUP 2009 Political Theory and International Relations) and democratic theory (Political Equality). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory (Reflective Democracy, OUP 2003 Innovating Democracy, OUP 2008), empirical welfare-state studies (The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Discretionary Time) and theoretical reflections on public policy (Social Welfare as an Individual Responsibility Whats Wrong with Terrorism?). Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shues 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most influential contemporary writers in political philosophy and international relations--Charles Beitz, Robert Goodin, Christian Reus-Smit, Andrew Hurrell, Judith Lichtenberg, Elizabeth Ashford, Thomas Pooge, Neta Crawford, Richard Miller, David Luban, Jeremy Waldron and Simon Caney--to explore some of the most challenging theoretical and practical questions that Shues work provokes. These range from the question of the responsibilities of the global rich to redress severe poverty to the permissibility of using torture to gain information to fight international terrorism. The contributors explore the continuing value of the idea of basic rights in understanding moral challenges as diverse as child labor and global climate change.