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»Rekommenderas till alla som är intresserade av emigrationen och/eller svensk film.« Populär HistoriaFrån år 1840 och ett sekel framåt utvandrade över en miljon människor från Sverige till Amerika. Att så många valde att lämna Sverige för att söka ett bättre liv på andra sidan Atlanten var ett stort trauma för den svenska nationen. Filmmakarna var inte sena att på olika sätt belysa fenomenet som skulle få märkbar betydelse för den svenska nationella identiteten. I Välkommen hem Mr Swanson analyserar filmvetaren Ann-Kristin Wallengren hur emigrationen till USA och den svenskamerikanske återvändaren skildrats i svensk film mellan 1910 och 1950, med nedslag även i senare filmer och tv-program. Sågs emigranten som en nationell förrädare eller som en modig nybyggare som kunde återvända med moderna idéer? I stor utsträckning visades svenska filmer även för immigranterna i USA, och Wallengren diskuterar de föreställningar om Sverige och svenskhet som spreds därigenom. Författaren tar också ett specifikt grepp om bilden av svenska invandrarkvinnorna i amerikansk film, en representation som på många sätt stod i kontrast till den svenska idealbilden. Wallengren visar hur ideologier om nationalitet haft en framträdande plats i filmens berättelser bilderna projicerar de uppfattningar om svensk nationell identitet och USA som dominerat över tid.

Fredrick Swanson tells the story of Guy M. Brandborg and his impact on the practices of the U.S. Forest Service. As supervisor of Montana's Bitterroot National Forest from 1935 to 1955, Brandborg engaged in a management style that promoted not only the well-being of the forest community but also the social and economic welfare of the local people. By relying on selective cutting, his goal was to protect the watersheds and wildlife habitats that are devastated by clear-cutting, and to prevent the job losses that follow such practices. Following his retirement, he became concerned that his agency was deviating from the practice of sustained-yield management of the forest's timber lands, and led a highly visible public outcry that became known as the Bitterroot controversy. Brandborg's behind-the-scenes lobbying contributed materially to the passage of the National Forest Management Act of 1976, the single most important law affecting public forestry since the creation of the Forest Service. Meticulously written, The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg articulates Brandborg's Progressive-era idealism and is based on extensive archival research in collections throughout the Rockies and the Northwest, including the Brandborg family papers. Swanson's crisp narration of how one national forest supervisor understood the intricate connection between the grasslands and forests under his care and the communities that were so dependent on these invaluable resources, opens a much larger story about the meaning of public lands in a democratic society.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -demons that urge him to do horrific things.When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. His personal life unravelling, he must go back into a world he thought he'd left behind to confront not only the violence of the present but the nightmares of his past. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy Marcus, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood...

Representation, subjectivity and sexuality continue to be central to scholarly inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Deciphering Culture explores their relationship, each author taking a distinct approach to the concept of 'curiosity' as a way of deciphering the working of particular cultural formations. In the process they address a variety of topics including:* the historical formation of subjectivities, identities and differences* cultural conduct and habits of the self* everyday cultures and negotiation* consumption and the body* memory, history and autobiography* the ethics of critical and textual inquiry. This fascinating book will appeal to students and academics from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in the social sciences and cultural studies.