European Perspectives on the United States – serie
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film
Inbunden, 2022
3586 kr
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film recalibrates the celebrated author’s early career and brings fresh understanding to the life of one of America’s truly great literary figures. Scholars have previously focused on Fitzgerald’s connection with Hollywood when he worked in Tinseltown as a screenwriter …
Up in Arms: Gun Imaginaries in Texas
Inbunden, 2022
1908 kr
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Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical …
American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire
Inbunden, 2022
2643 kr
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Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that “Most men appear never to have considered what a house is” (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that …
Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature
Av Pia Wiegmink
Inbunden, 2022
2786 kr
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Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature. …
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video
Inbunden, 2023
2590 kr
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Often identified as one of the most genuine and enduring American film genres, the road movie has never been explored in the context of experimental filmmaking. To fill this gap, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels provides the first book-length study of over eighty unique and often obscure films and …
Europeans Are Lovin' It? Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886–2015
Inbunden, 2023
2800 kr
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From the French origin of Coca-Cola to McDonald’s sponsorship of the 2015 Milan Expo, the book presents the first comparative history of these multinational corporations in two Western European countries, addressing some compelling questions: to what extent our increasingly globalized world is …
Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2024
2343 kr
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The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture examines the gothic mode deployed in a variety of texts that touch upon inherently US American themes, demonstrating its versatility and ubiquity across genres and popular media. The volume is divided into four main thematic sections, …
No Single Trajectory
Transnational and Transmedia Explorations of the American West
Inbunden, 2024
2083 kr
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This book presents papers by eleven European scholars that explore the ambivalent representations of an American West that follows “no single trajectory, creating instead a series of lines and rhythms, always moving, crossing, and folding” (Neil Campbell).The papers explore the use of the American …
Latinx Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture and New Media
Inbunden, 2024
2260 kr
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This volume provides a partial mapping of the ambivalent representational forms and cultural politics that have characterized Latinx identity since the 1990s, looking at literary and popular culture texts, as well as new media expressions. The chapters tackle themes related to the diversity of …
African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2024
2186 kr
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The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century comprises fourteen essays, each focussing on recent, widely known fiction by acclaimed African American authors. This volume showcases the originality, diversity, and vitality of contemporary African American literature, which has reached …
Transnational Post-Westerns
Inbunden, 2025
1814 kr
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This book deals with an emerging subgenre of films made in a variety of countries that make critical references to American Westerns but deal with the social, racial and political situation of the countries where they were made. Following Neil Campbell’s definition of post-Westerns as films “coming …
"Like Men They Stood": Black Male Vulnerability as Resistance to Stereotypes in Fiction Written by African American Women
Inbunden, 2025
1911 kr
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What if vulnerability could reshape how we understand Black masculinity? “Like Men They Stood” reveals how late twentieth-century African American women authors represent Black men in ways that disrupt familiar readings of their portrayals as purely stereotypical. Through reframed interpretations, …
“This America, Man”
The Literary and Cultural Origins of 21st Century American Television Series
Inbunden, 2026
1872 kr
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Everyone knows that American television changed irrevocably with the premiere of The Sopranos in 1999 and its followers like The Wire in the early 2000s, going from shallow entertainment to wildly popular art. But just what was it that changed from pre- to post-Sopranos TV? Written for both …
From Sunshine to Noir
Revisiting Sixties Los Angeles in Postmillennial Crime Narratives
Inbunden, 2026
1758 kr
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Why does twenty-first-century noir keep returning to 1960s Los Angeles? This book shows how contemporary novels and films – from Inherent Vice to Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood – use noir to investigate memory, power, and resistance under late capitalism. It examines how Sixties Los Angeles becomes …
