wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon
ISBN: 9780803226647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a global cultural phenomenon even before it became the highest grossing gay-themed drama in film history. Few films have inspired as much passion and debate, or produced as many contradictory responses, from online homage to late-night parody. In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, writers, journalists, scholars, and ordinary viewers explore the film and Annie Proulx's original story as well as their ongoing cultural and political significance. The contributors situate Brokeback...
An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a global cultural phenomenon even before it becam...
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102,18 zł |
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Riders of the Purple Sage
ISBN: 9780812966121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture," Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane's grounds. " Zane Grey's] popularity was...
Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, "combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in...
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81,90 zł |
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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
ISBN: 9780521093422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrati...
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219,24 zł |
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True West: Authenticity and the American West
ISBN: 9780803259768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasive in literature, popular culture, and history, assumptions about western authenticity have not received adequate critical attention. Given the ongoing economic and social transformations in this vast region, the persistent nostalgia and desire for the "real" authentic West suggest regional and national identities at odds with themselves. True West explores the concept of authenticity as it is used to invent, test, advertise, and read the...
In no other region of the United States has the notion of authenticity played such an important yet elusive role as it has in the West. Though pervasi...
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81,70 zł |
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Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
ISBN: 9780521816670 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrative that counters optimistic frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells of intra-ethnic violence, involving marriages and families. He examines historiography and writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others.
William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley asserts that although recent scholarship presents a narrati...
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584,77 zł |
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Assault Team: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781962791632 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,33 zł |
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Little Book of Mormon
ISBN: 9781614729815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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51,18 zł |