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81 produkter
Science Fiction Handbook
Av M. Keith Booker, Anne-Marie Thomas
Häftad, 2009
454 kr
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The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian …
Rereading Global Socialist Cultures After the Cold War
The Reassessment of a Tradition
Av Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker
Inbunden, 2002
1060 kr
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During the Cold War, the West typically represented socialism as a threat to genuine aesthetic achievement. Nonetheless, socialist cultures have produced a rich and varied body of creative works, and socialism continues to be a living force in China and in many regions of the Third World. The …
Socialist Cultures East and West
A Post-Cold War Reassessment
Av Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker
Inbunden, 2002
1060 kr
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Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement. Now, in the wake of the Cold War, it is becoming possible to reassess the past and present cultural productions of artists with socialist inclinations. The essays in this volume …
Science Fiction Television
Inbunden, 2004
634 kr
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Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Star Trek, along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1, have been some of the most enduring and influential of …
Alternate Americas
Science Fiction Film and American Culture
Inbunden, 2006
709 kr
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For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history …
Drawn to Television
Prime-Time Animation from The Flintstones to Family Guy
Inbunden, 2006
678 kr
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Since late evening cartoons first aired in 1960, prime-time animated series have had a profound effect on American television and American culture at large. The characters and motifs from such shows as The Flintstones and The Simpsons are among the best-known images in world popular culture; and …
From Box Office to Ballot Box
The American Political Film
Inbunden, 2007
709 kr
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Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as a medium, film can be a powerful political tool. It should thus come as no surprise that film has …
May Contain Graphic Material
Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film
Inbunden, 2007
639 kr
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Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of release for Will Eisner's A Contract with God, and Other Stories, generally credited as the first long-form …
Postmodern Hollywood
What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange
Inbunden, 2007
709 kr
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Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even sense its outlook in how we live our lives. This volume presents an accessible and brief summary of …
Postmodern Hollywood
What'S New in Film and Why it Makes Us Feel So Strange
E-bok, 2007
745 kr
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Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even sense its outlook in how we live our lives. This volume presents an accessible and brief summary of …
Strange TV
Innovative Television Series from the Twilight Zone to the X-Files
E-bok, 2002
1373 kr
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In the years since World War II, commercial television has become the most powerful force in American culture. It is also the quintessential example of postmodernist culture. This book studies how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks , and The X-Files display many of the central …
Socialist Cultures East and West
A Post-Cold War Reassessment
Av Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker
E-bok, 2002
1144 kr
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Decades of Western Cold War propaganda were designed to depict socialism as inimical to genuine aesthetic acheivement. Now, in the wake of the Cold War, it is becoming possible to reassess the past and present cultural productions of artists with socialist inclinations. The essays in this volume …
Alternate Americas
Science Fiction Film and American Culture
E-bok, 2006
803 kr
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For more than 50 years, science fiction films have been among the most important and successful products of American cinema, and are worthy of study for that reason alone. On a deeper level, the genre has reflected important themes, concerns and developments in American society, so that a history …
Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism
Reading Joyce After the Cold War
E-bok, 2000
1344 kr
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The work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, can be fully understood only when the colonial and postcolonial context of Joyce's Ireland is taken into account. Reading Joyce as a postcolonial writer produces valuable new insights into his work, though comparisons of Joyce's work with that of African …
Science Fiction Television
E-bok, 2004
680 kr
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Science fiction series have remained a staple of American television from its inception: classic programs such as The Twilight Zone , The Outer Limits , and Star Trek , along with recent and current series including Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 , have been some of the most enduring and influential …
Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia
E-bok, 2003
1424 kr
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Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe's major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more. Though best known as a novelist, Achebe is also a critic, activist, and spokesman for African culture. This reference is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to his life …
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War
American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964
E-bok, 2001
1344 kr
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The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak. The American science fiction novels and …
Drawn to Television
Prime-Time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy
E-bok, 2006
729 kr
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Since late evening cartoons first aired in 1960, prime-time animated series have had a profound effect on American television and American culture at large. The characters and motifs from such shows as The Flintstones and The Simpsons are among the best-known images in world popular culture; and …
Post-Utopian Imagination
American Culture in the Long 1950s
E-bok, 2002
1335 kr
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In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This …
From Box Office to Ballot Box
The American Political Film
E-bok, 2007
828 kr
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Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as a medium, film can be a powerful political tool. It should thus come as no surprise that film has …
Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature
Fiction as Social Criticism
Inbunden, 1994
1623 kr
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While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. This book offers a detailed study of several literary dystopias and analyzes them as social …
Dystopian Literature
A Theory and Research Guide
Inbunden, 1994
1946 kr
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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions and political systems. While utopian literature portrays ideal worlds, dystopian literature depicts the flaws and failures of imaginative societies. Often these societies are related to utopias, and the dystopian …
Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction
Carnival, Dialogism, and History
Av M. Keith Booker, Dubravka Juraga
Inbunden, 1995
977 kr
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Bakhtin, Stalin, and Modern Russian Fiction presents an advanced introduction to the work of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism, and historicism. The discussion of Bakhtin pays particular attention to the impact of his historical context in the …
Modern British Novel of the Left
A Research Guide
Inbunden, 1998
1058 kr
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The use of the spatial metaphor of a left vs. right opposition originated in the tendency of 19th century European legislatures to seat more radical members to the left of the presiding official. For nearly five decades, the left has come to be identified with totalitarianism and with Marxism and …
Modern American Novel of the Left
A Research Guide
Inbunden, 1999
1058 kr
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Unique in its scope of coverage, this reference work provides students and scholars interested in researching modern American leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place for examining American leftist and working-class novels of the past century. The book begins with a brief …
Film and the American Left
A Research Guide
Inbunden, 1999
920 kr
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The American Left has produced a rich and varied cultural tradition that was largely suppressed during the Cold War but whose influence on the larger society has always been significant. Much of this tradition found its expression in film and despite the suppression of overtly leftist content in …
Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism
Reading Joyce After the Cold War
Inbunden, 2000
1219 kr
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The work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, can be fully understood only when the colonial and postcolonial context of Joyce's Ireland is taken into account. Reading Joyce as a postcolonial writer produces valuable new insights into his work, though comparisons of Joyce's work with that of African …
Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War
American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964
Inbunden, 2001
1219 kr
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The 1950s are widely regarded as the golden age of American science fiction. This book surveys a wide range of major science fiction novels and films from the long 1950s--the period from 1946 to 1964--when the tensions of the Cold War were at their peak. The American science fiction novels and …
Post-Utopian Imagination
American Culture in the Long 1950s
Inbunden, 2002
1219 kr
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In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This …
Strange TV
Innovative Television Series from The Twilight Zone to The X-Files
Inbunden, 2002
1309 kr
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In the years since World War II, commercial television has become the most powerful force in American culture. It is also the quintessential example of postmodernist culture. This book studies how The Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, and The X-Files display many of the central …
