wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Picturing America: Trauma, Realism, Politics, and Identity in American Visual Culture
ISBN: 9783631549407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The essays collected here reflect upon various aspects of the roles and functions of visual media in (and outside of) contemporary US-American culture. By exercising close readings of the visual cultural texts or of visual media in context, we are presented with examples that illustrate the validity and significance of specific critical theories, while other essays point out ambivalences and subversions in the texts functions or meanings or present texts that may be regarded as models for diverging conceptual approaches. Amongst the texts discussed are popular television shows like The...
The essays collected here reflect upon various aspects of the roles and functions of visual media in (and outside of) contemporary US-American culture...
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374,71 zł |
Envisioning American Utopias: Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture
ISBN: 9783631575130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and television. The articles address topics of ecology, urbanism, politics, society, and heroism. Specifically, the volume addresses texts by Paul Auster, Ernest Callenbach, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bernard-Henri Levy, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Shepard, Alexis de Toqueville, James Welch, and Nathanael West, and television series like 24, and the Star Trek and Stargate franchises, as well as video games. Contributors...
The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and te...
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295,43 zł |
Approaches to American Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415720823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts. Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is divided into four thematically-organised sections. The first part delineates the evolution of American Studies over the course of the twentieth century, the second elaborates on how American... Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within Ameri... |
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704,29 zł |
Approaches to American Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415720854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts. Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is divided into four thematically-organised sections. The first part delineates the evolution of American Studies over the course of the twentieth century, the second elaborates on how American... Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within Ameri... |
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208,62 zł |