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Museum Worlds: Advances in Research
Volume 2, Issue 1
All the articles in this volume deal in some way with the museum as a public institution with sets of obligations to, and entangled legacies of individuals and communities outside itself.
Continue reading “Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for October”
Recent BBC Culture article, Christian Petzold: How Germans today confront the Nazis, takes a look at how the attitude of German filmmakers has changed in the past 15 years and how the cinema is turning the cameras on the nation’s darkest hour in films and TV. Read more on what Nina Hoss, an actress in the latest German film to address the war and its aftermath Christian Petzold’s Phoenix, has to say bbc.com/culture
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Browse some of Berghahn’s relevant titles on the topic of Nazi portrayal and postwar cinema in Germany & Europe.
POLISH FILM AND THE HOLOCAUST
Politics and Memory
Marek Haltof
The 71st Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, opens today and runs through September 6th 2014, on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy. Twenty films will be competing for the Golden Lion prize, and several dozen more will wrestle for the attention of critics and audiences.
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, “International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale”) is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the “Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica”, the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island
For this year’s festival line-up, screening schedule and other information please visit Venice Film Festival official website.
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In the interim, Berghahn is delighted to present its own line-up of Film Studies titles:
THE JOURNEY OF G. MASTORNA
The Film Fellini Didn’t Make
Federico Fellini
With the collaboration of Dino Buzzati, Brunello Rondi, and Bernardino Zapponi
Translated with a commentary by Marcus Perryman
Continue reading “Venice Film Festival Kicking Off the Fall Movie Festival Season”
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 23, Issue 1
The articles in this special issue address policy as a socio-political practice and ongoing process.
Projectioms
Volume 8, Issue 1
This issue ranges across the avant-garde cinema, tear-jerking melodramas, the nature of historical trauma, and narratives that assume playful, game-like formats and that may be found in title sequences and trailers.
Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Volume 6, Issue 1
The journal explores perceptions of society as constituted and conveyed in processes of learning and educational media
German Politics and Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
This special issue is titled West Germany’s Cold War Radio: The Crucible of the Transatlantic Century.
Girlhood Studies
Volume 7, Issue 1
This special issue is titled Cultural Studies and the Re-description of Girls in Crisis.
French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
The special issue is titled Representations, History, and Wartime France.
Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War, Occupation, and Empire in France and Germany.
International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 3, Issue 2
This issue assembles contributions to inquire into the future of the “social” from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science, and law.
Learning and Teaching
Volume 6, Issue 3
This special issue is titled The Ethnography of the University, and it is dedicated to William F. Kelleher (1950-2013), inspiring teacher, brilliant thinker, activist scholar and co-founder of the Ethnography of the University initiative.
Projections
Volume 8, Issue 1
This issue ranges across avant-garde cinema, tear-jerking melodramas, the nature of historical trauma, and narratives that assume playful, game-like formats and that may be found in title sequences and trailers.
Regions & Cohesion
Volume 4, Issue 1
This issue opens with an article that furthers our critical analysis of regional social policy. This article is followed by two more that examine North American border politics as well as a Leadership Forum section and a Review Essay.
Social Analysis
Volume 58, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War Magic and Warrior Religion: Sorcery, Cognition, and Embodiment.
Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 1
The articles in this issue examine a variety of topics.
Israel Studies Review
Volume 28, Issue 2
This collection of articles aims to rethink the concepts of family and familism in Israel today and analyze the changes that are taking place.
Projections
Volume 7,
Issue 2
This issue of Projections highlights the complexity of the intersection of movies and mind by integrating established traditions of analyzing media aesthetics with current research into perception, cognition and emotion.
Cambridge Anthropology
Volume 31, Issue 2
This issue features articles covering a broad spectrum of topics.
International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 3, Issue 1
The articles included in this issue of IJSQ touch on different aspects of the “sustainable growth” issue.
Asia Pacific World
Volume 4, Issue 2
The general articles cover a wide range of topics but all grew out of presentations made at IAAPS conferences,with two from the original conference in 2010, and three from the 2011 conference.
Journeys
Volume 14, Issue 2
This special issue is titled: Shaping Strangers in Early Modern English Travel Writing. The articles consider how various strangers were presented and represented in English travel writing, whether their “strangeness” be one of physical, religious, geographical, or national difference, and, simultaneously, the slippage between different kinds of strangeness.
German Politics & Society
Volume 31, Issue 3
This issue comprises articles covering a range of topics. It also features a forum section and a book reviews section.
Historical Reflections
Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 2013
Featuring writing on the ideas of Claude Langlois, specifically his work concentrated on women, religion, and the French Revolution.
Transfers
Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special section on Media and Mobility, featuring articles on interactions between physical movement and communicational media.
Projections
Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2013
Focusing on the topic of violence in movies, a subject of continuing controversy and discussion, with articles on television and film.
Critical Survey
Volume 25, Number 1, Spring 2013
With articles dedicated to the life of Shakespeare, from a variety of angles ranging from biofiction to what we would recognize as more traditional biography.
Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special issue on Postcolonial Memory Politics in Educational Media, with articles focusing primarily on Europe.
In the spirit of the Tribeca Film Festival, Berghahn Journals is delighted to offer limited-time free access to our special virtual issue that focuses on several influential directors. This special issue includes five articles from our journal, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind.
Projections is the winner of the 2008 AAP/PSP Prose Award for Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities. It is published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and The Forum for Movies and Mind.
To access the special issue, click the following link: http://bit.ly/10dgD7D
Free access to the issue will end 5/22/13.
New journal releases from Berghahn:
Asia Pacific World
Volume 3, Number 2, Autumn 2012
Including a special feature article on Creating a Poverty-Free World, as well as articles on issues in Japan, Myanmar, Guam, and Indonesia.
Critical Survey
Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 2012
Focusing on Shakespeare’s hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon, the essays in this special issue consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across time, genre and place, from America to New Zealand, from children’s literature to wartime commemorations.
Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques
Volume 38, Number 3, Winter 2012
Featuring a special section entitled “(Re)presenting Women, the Female, and the Feminine,” with articles that investigate the ways in which women are embodied by, or embody in themselves, the social, cultural, or political ethos of a particular era or region.
International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 2, Number 1, Summer 2012
In this issue, the authors apply the social quality theory to topics including sustainability, social innovation, and urban development.
Israel Studies Review
Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2012
Guest edited by Gad Barzilai, this special issue of ISR focuses on “Law, Politics, Justice, and Society: Israel in a Comparative Context,” with articles that reveal, explain, and conceptualize these processes that have characterized Israeli politics, law, and society
Projections
Volume 6, Number 2, Winter 2012
Focusing on the psychological, social, and physiological constituents of meaning and emotion in cinema, the essays and book reviews illuminate the multiple dimensions that connect movies and mind.
Recent Journal Releases from Berghahn:
Anthropology in Action, Volume 19, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Asia Pacific World, Volume 3, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Cambridge Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1– Spring 2012
French Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 30, Issue 1– Spring 2012
German Politics and Society, Volume 30, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Israel Studies Review, Volume 27, Issue 1– Summer 2012
Projections, Volume 6, Issue 1– Summer 2012
Sibirica, Volume 11, Issue 1– Spring 2012
Theoria, Volume 60, Number 131– June 2012
Transfers, Volume 2, Issue 1– Spring 2012