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  • Matters of Testimony

    Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

    by Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams ...
    In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Animal Genocide and its Aftermath

    The Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf

    by Nicholas Chare ...
    In this exacting assessment of the bounty policies enacted against the Tasmanian Tiger and the Newfoundland Wolf, Animal Genocide and its Aftermath provides a much-needed reappraisal of the legal, political, and social definition of animal killing. Analyzing natural history collections and cultural representations, this book advances a compelling case for viewing the bounty schemes as a form of ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Sportswomen in Cinema

    Film and the Frailty Myth

    by Nicholas Chare ...
    Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing from psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories, the book presents a series of landmark close readings of films featuring a variety of different forms of athletic ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Testimonies of Resistance

    Representations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando

    Edited by Dominic Williams, Nicholas Chare ...
    The Sonderkommando—the “special squad” of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau—comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Auschwitz Sonderkommando

    Testimonies, Histories, Representations

    by Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • The Clinical Witness

    Conflict, Catastrophe and Medical Testimony

    Edited by Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams ...
    This unique, interdisciplinary book critically examines the important roles that witness accounts from healthcare professionals have played in testifying to historical instances of genocide, mass killing, epidemic disease, and natural disaster over the past century. Knowledge and perceptions of many major disasters – natural and human-made – have been shaped by witness accounts provided by doctors ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Representations of Sports Coaches in Film

    Looking to Win

    Edited by Katharina Bonzel, Nicholas Chare ...
    This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international scholars working across the humanities and social sciences to examine ways in which representations of sports coaching in narrative and documentary cinema can shape and inform sporting instruction. The central premise of the volume is that films featuring sports coaches potentially reflect, reinforce or contest ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Gesture and Film

    Signalling New Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Nicholas Chare, Liz Watkins ...
    Gesture has held a crucial role in cinema since its inception. In the absence of spoken words, early cinema frequently exploited the communicative potential of the gestures of actors. As this book demonstrates, gesture has continued to assume immense importance in film to the present day. This innovative book features essays by leading international scholars working in the fields of cinema, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Abject visions

    Powers of horror in art and visual culture

    Edited by Rina Arya, Nicholas Chare ...
    This major new volume brings together leading international scholars to debate the continuing importance and relevance of the concept of abjection for the interpretation of modern and contemporary culture. This genuinely interdisciplinary collection includes important new essays that draw on the work of Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva and other key critical thinkers to provide ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • On the Nude

    Looking Anew at the Naked Body in Art

    Edited by Nicholas Chare, Ersy Contogouris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Art
    This book provides a timely reappraisal of one of the most enduring subjects in the history of art – the naked body.Beginning with reflections on what denuding entails and means, the volume then shifts to a consideration of body politics in the context of Black political empowerment, disability, and queer and Indigenous politics of representation. Themes including the animal nude, the male nude, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Animals, Plants and Afterimages

    The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

    Edited by Nicholas Chare, Valérie Bienvenue ...
    The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums. Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine ... Read more

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  • History and Art History

    Looking Past Disciplines

    Edited by Nicholas Chare, Mitchell B. Frank ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present.Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places, the contributions cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between history and art ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD