In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster - a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity - as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, Rubin casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history. Rubin contends...
In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster - a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal con...
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.
Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war.
Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each reading, and study questions for each...
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular ...
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.
Charts the rich multiplicity of American identities through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families, work, and war.
Includes editorial introductions for the volume and for each reading, and study questions for each...
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular ...
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?
Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture--such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans...
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in Amer...
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?
Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture--such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican...
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in Amer...
This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dialogue with each other so as to get a sense of the range of southern politics and history.
This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dia...
Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred years -- the period in which that music came into its own and achieved unprecedented popularity. Beginning with a look at music as a business, eleven essays explore a variety of popular musical genres, including Tin Pan Alley, blues, jazz, country, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, folk, rap, and Mexican American corridos. Reading these essays, we come to see that the forms created by one group often appeal to, and are in turn influenced...
Designed as a broad introductory survey, and written by experts in the field, this book examines the rise of American music over the past hundred y...
Polly Adler's "house" -- the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title -- was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name "synonymous with sin."
This new edition of Adler's autobiography brings back into print a book that was a mass phenomenon, in both hardback...
Polly Adler's "house" -- the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title -- was a major site of New York City underworld activ...
This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dialogue with each other so as to get a sense of the range of southern politics and history.
This book broadly frames the scholarly conversation about southern radicalism, putting essays covering a range of historical periods and topics in dia...
The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major -family friendly- leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it...
The Renaissance Faire--a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring--receives its first sustained historical att...
