Author: W. M. Flinders Petrie File Type: pdf Mythical animals, florals, rosettes, religious and secular symbols, more.

Author: Corey K. Creekmur File Type: pdf This book crosses the conventional border between the analysis of on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema. It not only addresses the representation of law on screen (for example, through discussions of how lawyers, police, and prisons are depicted, or how courtroom sequences function as narratives), but also focuses on how the state shapes and regulates cinema. The volume addresses the distinct contexts of China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam, along with an integrative introduction that puts the essays and themes into context for scholars and students alike.ReviewCinema may have always been an international language, but the law remains largely defined by territorial boundaries. In these circumstances, the country-by-country essays in this remarkable anthology considering how the law is represented and how the law shapes cinema in Asia are both necessary and original. In fact, many of the accounts of gangsters on-screen and off are quite an eye-opener! Each essay is autonomous, rigorous and highly original. Ranging from censorship to film piracy and courtroom dramas in India, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan and China, Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia is as diverse, lively, fast-moving and engaging as those crime films we all love.--Chris Berry,Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonCreekmur and Sidels book makes for fascinating reading and will make a definite impact in a field which should be the subject of greater study. Crossing the divide between on-screen and off-screen intersections of law and cinema, each chapter, whether about China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, or Vietnam, offers a different and interesting slice of one of these kinds of intersection, containing insights which should be of interest to anyone interested in law and cinema, Asia and globalization, popular culture in Asia, Asian law, or law and aesthetics in Asia. The book smoothly integrates consideration of the legal environment in which cinema operates, the legal environment it attempts to portray, and the legal environment it seeks to influence. Implicit in the actual coverage is that illegality is just as important as legality in all of the national contexts discussed. This is a profoundly creative contribution to a growing area of social study.--Andrew Harding, Professor of Asia-Pacific Law, University of Victoria,British ColumbiaJust as the forces of globalization have done much to permeate the borders of sovereign nations, so, too, this important essay collection breaks down the barriers of academic disciplines. With its gathering together of scholars from law, cinema, art history, sociology, and mass communications, among other fields, this is a truly interdisciplinary work. Moving well beyond mere image studies of law, lawyers or criminality, the scholarship represented here situates Asian cinema within larger discourses of state control, film piracy, and even the space of the cinema itself. Groundbreaking and pioneering are terms often loosely applied not so in this case.--David Desser, University of Illinois This fine collection of essays is a significant contribution to the growing interdisciplinary discourses on cinema and legal studies...an absorbing collection of essays about an absorbing series of issues.--Michael Palmer,Professor of Law and Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law at the University of London, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Peoples University, Beijing, California Western Law School, San Diego, and the University of Notre Dame London Law CentreAbout the AuthorCorey Creekmur is Associate Professor of English and Cinema, Comparative Literature Director, Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa. Mark Sidel is Professor of Law and International Affairs, University of Iowa, Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School.

Author: Daniel Robinson File Type: pdf Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but it can also be the most treacherous. In this guide, Daniel N. Robinson surveys the philosophical and historical roots of modern psychology and sketches the major schools and thinkers of the discipline. He also identifies those false prejudicessuch as contempt for metaphysics and the notion that the mind can be reduced to the chemical processes of the brainthat so often perplex and mislead students of psychology. He ends by calling for psychology to investigate more intensively the problems of moral and civic development. Readers will find Robinsons book to be an indispensable orientation to this culturally influential field.

Author: Ines Weizman File Type: pdf