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Beloved Community
The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
Häftad, 1990
607 kr
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The ""Young American"" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village ""Little Renaissance"" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics. In Beloved Community , Casey Blake …
American Photography and the American Dream
Häftad, 1991
790 kr
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James Guimond's powerful study reveals how documentary photographers have expressed or contested the idea of the American Dream throughout the twentieth century. In Guimond's formulation issues like growth, equality, and national identity came under the rubric of the Dream as it has been used to …
Horrible Prettiness
Burlesque and American Culture
Häftad, 1991
528 kr
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Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of ""British Blondes"" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was …
Contested Culture
The Image, the Voice, and the Law
Häftad, 1991
528 kr
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Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, …
Early Downhome Blues
A Musical and Cultural Analysis
Häftad, 1995
544 kr
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Hailed as a classic in music studies when it was first published in 1977, Early Downhome Blues is a detailed look at traditional country blues artists and their work.Combining musical analysis and cultural history approaches, Titon examines the origins of downhome blues in African American society. …
Staging Depth
Eugene O'neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse
Av Joel Pfister
Häftad, 1995
785 kr
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Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's …
Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Evolution
Häftad, 1997
613 kr
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The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an 'age of surplus' under corporate auspices. From …
Measure of Perfection
Phrenology and the Fine Arts in America
Häftad, 1998
683 kr
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Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developments in the period. He goes on to reveal the …
Reading Football
How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
Häftad, 1998
528 kr
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Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football , the first contemporary book about football's formative years. …
Landscapes of the New West
Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing
Av Krista Comer
Häftad, 1999
575 kr
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In the early 1970s, empowered by the civil rights and women's movements, a new group of women writers began speaking to the American public. Their topic, broadly defined, was the postmodern American West. By the mid-1980s, their combined works made for a bona fide literary groundswell in both …
American Alchemy
The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture
Häftad, 2000
515 kr
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California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture. In American Alchemy , however, Brian …
Slippery Characters
Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
Häftad, 2000
607 kr
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In the 1920s, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew ; in the 1990s, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former …
Romancing the Folk
Public Memory and American Roots Music
Häftad, 2000
471 kr
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In American music, the notion of ""roots"" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied for influence over the public imagination in …
Race of Singers
Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen
Häftad, 2000
515 kr
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When Walt Whitman published ""Leaves of Grass"" in 1855, he dreamed of inspiring ""a race of singers"" who would celebrate the working class and realize the promise of American democracy. By examining how singers such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springstein both embraced and reconfigured …
Tender Violence
Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism
Av Laura Wexler
Häftad, 2000
631 kr
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Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a ""doctrine vision"" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of America around the dawn of the 20th century. These women photographers, white and middle class, constructed images of war …
Nature's State
Imagining Alaska As the Last Frontier
Av Susan Kollin
Häftad, 2001
500 kr
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The invention of Alaska in the popular imagination; An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Nature's State looks behind the myth of Alaska as America's ""last frontier,"" a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination. Susan Kollin traces how this …
Making Something Happen
American Political Poetry Between the World Wars
Häftad, 2001
575 kr
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Rethinking American activist poetry of the 1920s and 1930s; ""Poetry makes nothing happen,"" wrote W.H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s - the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, …
Modern Bodies
Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
Häftad, 2002
471 kr
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This text exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous. It was in 1930 that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of ""dance as an art of and from America"". Dancers such as …
Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture
Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s-1950s
Häftad, 2003
515 kr
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Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in US films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the late 1920s through the early years of the Cold …
America's Culture of Terrorism
Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word
Häftad, 2003
515 kr
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Although the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 shocked the world, America has confronted terrorism at home for well over a century. With the invention of dynamite in 1866, Americans began to worry about anonymous acts of mass violence in a way that differed from previous generations' fears of …
John Brown's Body
Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War
Häftad, 2004
515 kr
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Singing ""John Brown's Body"" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many …
Panic!
Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction
Häftad, 2006
526 kr
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During the economic depression of the 1890s and the speculative frenzy of the following decade, Wall Street, high finance, and market crises assumed unprecedented visibility in the United States. Fiction writers published scores of novels that explored this new cultural phenomenon. In ""Panic!"", …
Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage
High Culture Vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana
Häftad, 2010
587 kr
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Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as ""Tocquevillian."" In the work of three towering American literary …
Our Daily Bread
Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West
Av Geoff Mann
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working people's identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and developed. In ""Our Daily Bread"", Mann …
Sensational Modernism
Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America
Häftad, 2007
526 kr
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Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, ""Sensational Modernism"" uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind, and fiction by writers …
Civic Myths
A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship
Av Brook Thomas
Häftad, 2007
526 kr
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As questions of citizenship generate new debates for this generation of Americans, Brook Thomas argues for revitalizing the role of literature in civic education. Thomas defines civic myths as compelling stories about national origin, membership, and values that are generated by conflicts within …
Real Thing
Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
Av Miles Orvell
Häftad, 1989
453 kr
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This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred …
