Writ on Water

Writ on WaterA powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of "film imagination" to our lives as human beings in the world. This eloquent book draws on the author's responses to a wide range of extraordinary films "long takes" on Altman's Nashville, Godard's Hail Mary, Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism, and von Sternberg's Blonde Venus, as well as "short takes" on films by Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Chantal Akerman, Ross

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This book analyses the world of selective reproduction – interventions that influence reproductive outcomes and allow only some pregnancies to be borne to fruition – by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth

the Scottish upstart Andrew Lethe

setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora

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The author examines not only 'The Wealth of Nations'

It questions perceptions of deafness as a disability and shows the importance of shared leisure in community formation and how changing patterns of socialisation are affecting British society

This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself