Constructing Charisma

Constructing CharismaRailroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicalsthe major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the famous and the unknown. By mid century, heroes and celebrities

A Tranca Feiticeira

complexity of optical phenomena and devices

in this book Peer argues that this enduring attachment in Third Republic France to peasants

Mary Antin

Russel Lewis

From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities

This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view

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Eager and capable

Vincent van Gogh

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