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22 produkter
The Men Who Knew Too Much
Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
Inbunden, 2012
2494 kr
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Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in …
The Men Who Knew Too Much
Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
Av Susan M. Griffin, Alan Nadel
Häftad, 2012
729 kr
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Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in …
Men Who Knew Too Much
Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
Av Alan Nadel, Susan M. Griffin
E-bok, 2011
450 kr
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Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in …
Men Who Knew Too Much
Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
Av Alan Nadel, Susan M. Griffin
E-bok, 2011
450 kr
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Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in …
Television in Black-and-white America
Race and National Identity
Av Alan Nadel
Inbunden, 2005
475 kr
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Alan Nadel's provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm - particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows …
Flatlining on the Field of Dreams
Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 1997
389 kr
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"Flatlining on the Field of Dreams takes a apart some of the most commercially successful films of the epoch, demonstrating how they reflected, debated, and played with the dominant ideology of the time. . . . cleverly and wittily written . . . . The book will work extremely well in the …
Demographic Angst
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 2017
495 kr
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Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor. Demographic …
Demographic Angst
Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s
Av Alan Nadel
Inbunden, 2017
2014 kr
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Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor. Demographic …
Containment Culture
American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 1995
443 kr
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Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, …
Containment Culture
American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Av Alan Nadel
E-bok, 1995
749 kr
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Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, …
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts
The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures
Inbunden, 2023
1478 kr
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Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about …
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts
The Staging of Illusion Across Time and Cultures
E-bok, 2023
520 kr
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Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about …
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts
The Staging of Illusion Across Time and Cultures
E-bok, 2023
503 kr
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Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about …
Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts
The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures
Häftad, 2025
482 kr
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Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about …
Theatre of August Wilson
Av Alan Nadel
E-bok, 2018
404 kr
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The first comprehensive study of August Wilson''s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson''s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson''s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides …
Theatre of August Wilson
Av Alan Nadel
E-bok, 2018
400 kr
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The first comprehensive study of August Wilson''s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson''s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson''s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides …
Theatre of August Wilson
Av Alan Nadel, Jr.
Inbunden, 2018
1805 kr
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The first comprehensive study of August Wilson’s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson’s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson’s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides …
Theatre of August Wilson
Av Alan Nadel, Jr. m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
384 kr
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The first comprehensive study of August Wilson’s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson’s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson’s life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides …
Mission Unaccomplished
American War Films in the Twenty-First Century
Av Alan Nadel
Inbunden, 2025
665 kr
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An analysis of how post-9/11 war movies changed from following soldiers on specific missions to chronicling war as a day-to-day occupation.In 2003, the United States began a war in Iraq without a mission. Instead of fighting to restore peace-the traditional objective of warfare-servicemembers faced …
August Wilson
Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 2010
302 kr
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Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. Known as the Twentieth-Century Cycle or the Pittsburgh Cycle, the plays, …
Invisible Criticism
Ralph Ellison and the American Canon
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 1991
214 kr
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In 1952 Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his Kafkaesque and claustrophobic novel about the life of a nameless young black man in New York City. Although Invisible Man has remained the only novel that Ellison published in his lifetime, it is generally regarded as one of the most …
May All Your Fences Have Gates
Essays on the Drama of August Wilson
Av Alan Nadel
Häftad, 1993
302 kr
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