This book is a large extent to show concern with the way such images have resonated in and with American culture and history during the last twenty or thirty years.Clint Eastwood and his films are in part because of their popularity and their significance role in this cultural discourse.
This book is a large extent to show concern with the way such images have resonated in and with American culture and history during the last twenty or...
Brings a sense of social context to a field dominated by purely formalist criticism. By revealing the struggles of American poets as they address important questions about art, social life, and the oppression they encounter, Damon aims to add a new dimension to cultural theory.
Brings a sense of social context to a field dominated by purely formalist criticism. By revealing the struggles of American poets as they address impo...
In this book, the author places the TV movie in a historical and institutional framework and brilliantly examines the various, dominant types of TV movies in terms of narrative and textual strategies. In this full-length study of its kind, it analyzes a true 'TV invention'--one that is both fascinating and significant.
In this book, the author places the TV movie in a historical and institutional framework and brilliantly examines the various, dominant types of TV mo...
Uses the story of the Rosenbergs (executed for espionage in 1953) to explore the function of narrative in the formation of history. Argues that the story was an embedded narrative in the developing Cold War, both required by that Cold War framework and furthering its construction.
Uses the story of the Rosenbergs (executed for espionage in 1953) to explore the function of narrative in the formation of history. Argues that the st...
Studies a story that won't fade away, tracing the politically motivated offic story and looking closely at its representation in literature, drama, and th visual arts. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Studies a story that won't fade away, tracing the politically motivated offic story and looking closely at its representation in literature, drama, an...
In this work, the author focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media, including photography and video, defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early 20th century to the present.
In this work, the author focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media, including photography and video,...
'In this book, Bloom takes what might seem a very localized subject and shows how it opens up to all the central questions today in cultural studies around gender, nationhood, the politics of imperialism, race, male homosocial behavior, and the sociality of science. Gender on Ice has an eloquence and elegance that positively refreshing and the prose is stylish, engaging, and direct.' -Dana Polan, University of Pittsburgh
'In this book, Bloom takes what might seem a very localized subject and shows how it opens up to all the central questions today in cultural studies a...
This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology it would display in later phases, including sexism, racism, and class bias.
This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, a...
Notes on Nowhere was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The term utopia implies both "good place" and "nowhere." Since Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, debates about utopian models of society have sought to understand the implications of these somewhat contradictory definitions. In Notes on Nowhere, author Jennifer Burwell uses a cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine...
Notes on Nowhere was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again a...
