This article introduces the preoccupations and themes that define the study and practice of
black aesthetics. It presents a provisional sketch of a field that has long been recognized in …

Ethnographic research is fundamental to the discipline of anthropology. However,
contemporary debate on themes such as modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity …

Decety and JT Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience, pp. 551–64.
New York: Oxford University Press. The literature on the neuroscience of empathy, while …

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone interested in film.
Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories …

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as
mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making …

In the mid-1950s CP Snow began his campaign against the'two cultures'-the debilitating
divide, as he saw it, between traditional'literary intellectual'culture, and the culture of the …

How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional
involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically …

In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating
it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a representation of the black experience but as a …

The way we communicate with each other is vital to preserving the cultural ecology, or
wellbeing, of a place and time. Do we listen to each other? Do we ask the right questions …

In analyzing oppressive systems like racism, social theorists have articulated accounts of the
dynamic interaction and mutual dependence between psychological components, such as …