The Dutch saying, "a Jan Steen household," originated in the seventeenth century, and has come to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, are the direct inspiration behind the layered, domestic scenes of Julie Blackmon's photographic work. Raised as ...(展开全部)

The Dutch saying, "a Jan Steen household," originated in the seventeenth century, and has come to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, are the direct inspiration behind the layered, domestic scenes of Julie Blackmon's photographic work. Raised as ...(展开全部)

Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the writings of Burmese nationalists and the experiences of subaltern groups, he also shows how animals were mobi...(展开全部)

eminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinem...(展开全部)

Like many young Americans, Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. As he became a husband, and then a father, the moral dimensions of eating became increasingly important to him. Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to...(展开全部)

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ing...(展开全部)

'I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being...' Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he lea...(展开全部)

"Representing Animals" explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors - historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies - examine the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics su...(展开全部)

Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contributors - historians, literary critics, anthropologists, artists, art historians, and scholars of cultural studies - examine the ways we talk, write, photograph, imagine, and otherwise represent animals. The book includes topics such...(展开全部)