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67 produkter
Critifiction
Postmodern Essays
Häftad, 1993
430 kr
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Examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time.This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction …
Hauntings
Popular Film and American Culture 1990-1992
Häftad, 1994
463 kr
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Explores the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines.We are haunted by what we cannot fully identify, by what we cannot make identical to what we already are, have, and know. AIDS is visible, as is the South Central Los Angeles riot/revolt, the …
Spectacular Vernaculars
Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism
Häftad, 1995
477 kr
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Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.Spectacular Vernaculars examines hip-hop's cultural rebellion in terms of its specific implications for postmodern …
Cross-Addressing
Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders
Häftad, 1996
450 kr
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Using a "cultural studies" approach to the question of what constitutes literary study at the end of the twentieth century, the contributors address identity politics in specific cultural instances.The sixteen original essays by scholars from around the world examine concerns common to writers who …
Passport to Hollywood
Hollywood Films, European Directors
Häftad, 1998
415 kr
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Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic BooksIn Passport to Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by directors …
Counterpleasures
Inbunden, 1999
1040 kr
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Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging …
Romantic Desire in (Post)modern Art and Philosophy
Av Jos de Mul
Häftad, 1999
487 kr
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An erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy.In this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of …
Mail-Orders
The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture
Av Sunka Simon
Inbunden, 2002
1535 kr
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Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.While the advent and structure of electronic mail has been discussed in web caucuses, newspapers, hypertext theory, and communication theory, it has not yet been considered in conjunction …
Performing Whiteness
Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema
Häftad, 2003
455 kr
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Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Performing Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical …
Post-Marxist Theory
An Introduction
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.Poststructuralist Marxism, or post-Marxism, is a theoretical viewpoint that elaborates and revises the work of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. Unlike traditional Marxism, which …
Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2005
549 kr
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Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Elizabeth Klaver considers how autopsies are performed in a variety of contexts, from the "real" thing in hospitals and county …
Roll Over Adorno
Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media
Inbunden, 2006
1286 kr
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Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.What happens when Theodor Adorno, the champion of high, classical artists such as Beethoven, comes into contact with the music of Chuck Berry, the de facto king of rock 'n' roll? In a …
Hauntings
Popular Film and American Culture 1990-1992
Inbunden, 1994
1111 kr
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Explores the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines.We are haunted by what we cannot fully identify, by what we cannot make identical to what we already are, have, and know. AIDS is visible, as is the South Central Los Angeles riot/revolt, the …
It Looks At You
The Returned Gaze of Cinema
Häftad, 1994
426 kr
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A study of the "returned gaze" from the cinema screen, demonstrating that the films that we watch watch us, guide us, control our gaze, and enforce societal codesThis book is a study of one of the most insidious and pervasive phenomena in the study and reception of cinema: the "returned gaze" from …
Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes
Legacies of Postmodern Theory
Av H. L. Hix
Häftad, 1995
462 kr
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Explores the consequences of postmodern theory and answers the question, "What did postmodern theory begin?"In a series of topical explorations structured like a sonata, H. L. Hix identifies the consequences of postmodern theory through such issues as grief, freedom, beauty, obscenity, love, and …
Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression
Essays in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Häftad, 1995
393 kr
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Offers a radical, "Third World" approach to current debates on canon revision, multiculturalism, Eurocentrism, and reforms in education and culture.In Part One, the author examines what is at stake in the complex relations between theory and practice in exchanges involving Paul de Man, Mikhail …
Fear, Truth, Writing
From Paper Village to Electronic Community
Häftad, 1995
373 kr
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This book describes and examines the fear of exposure one faces when creating for cultural consumption. Examining the work of Cixous, Foucault, Irigaray, Spinoza, Hegel, Hakim Bey, Heidegger, Kathy Acker, Derrida, and Kierkegaard, the author finds spaces where fear and anxiety give way to …
Fire and Roses
Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body
Häftad, 1995
394 kr
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Interprets postmodernity in relation to the body—the "somatological a priori," and applies current critical theory to issues of gender, popular culture fashion, and magic, as well as the Western philosophical/theological tradition.Covering a wealth of authors and literature from Baudrillard to …
Posts
Re Addressing the Ethical
Häftad, 1996
386 kr
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An innovative study of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and genealogy, relating the ethical to the problematic of the text as a post or a sending in the work of Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan, Kristeva, and Foucault, and phrasing the ethical as the questions of how to read and write after.Posts is a …
Postmodernism - Local Effects, Global Flows
Häftad, 1996
453 kr
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Offers readable case studies in postmodern economics, philosophy, literary criticism, feminism, pedagogy, poetry, painting, historiography, and cultural studies, showing disorganization as characteristic of postmodern times.Through informative, original, and incisive case studies in postmodern …
Bodily Discursions
Genders, Representations, Technologies
Av Deborah S. Wilson, Christine Moneera Laennec
Häftad, 1996
401 kr
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This collection of feminist essays from a variety of disciplines explores the idea of the body as a site for the production of political ideologies.Bodily Discursions offers a multiplicity of feminist perspectives on the body, especially the female body, from a variety of disciplines: literary …
Dali and Postmodernism
This Is Not an Essence
Häftad, 1997
406 kr
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Demonstrates that Dali's Surrealism anticipates postmodern tactics, and inaugurates "New Dali Studies" by offering an original interpretation of his relationship with the Surrealist canon.By taking Dali's "paranoiac-critical method" to the delirious extents Dali himself recommended, LaFountain …
Bookend
Anatomies of a Virtual Self
Av Joe Amato
Häftad, 1997
394 kr
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Enacts and evokes the changes and creative possibilities emerging from contemporary literary technologies (electronic media).Bookend challenges distinctions between prose and poetry as well as between popular and academic culture, embodying a wide array of poetic techniques to argue that form and …
Other Germanies
Questioning Identity in Women's Literature and Art
Av Karen Jankowsky, Carla Love
Häftad, 1997
426 kr
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Explores notions of personal and cultural identity, and offers an introduction to the work of women in literature, film, dance, and visual art in Germany.This book introduces American audiences to Germany through the perspectives of members of various ethnic groups within the newly unified country …
From Hegel to Madonna
Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism"
Häftad, 1998
401 kr
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Moves from the discourses of dialectical negation to cultural-populist affirmation—that is, from Hegel to Madonna Studies—in order to envision a mode of critique that can persuasively describe and explain the cultural contradictions of late capitalism.From Hegel to Madonna presents a genealogical …
Bodies at Risk
Unsafe Limits in Romanticism and Postmodernism
Häftad, 1998
462 kr
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Taking a post-psychoanalytic, queer-theoretical approach, this book links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods through the examination of a variety of imaginative texts, from canonical poetry and fiction to avant-garde music and film.Taking a fundamentally …
Speeding to the Millennium
Film and Culture 1993-1995
Häftad, 1998
427 kr
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Intersperses headline events, popular film, postmodern theory, and fictional vignettes in order to capture the elusive cultural imaginary of our twentieth-century fin de siecle.Natoli offers observations from a postmodern point of view of American culture "speeding" toward the millennium in the …
Transparency of Spectacle
Meditations on the Moving Image
Inbunden, 1998
1111 kr
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Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema …
Transparency of Spectacle
Meditations on the Moving Image
Häftad, 1998
401 kr
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Considers the ephemeral nature of the cinematic experience as we now apprehend it, and examines the ways in which technological advances in film and moving image production have changed this experience over the course of the last thirty-odd years.While agreeing that the "digitization" of the cinema …
Labyrinths of the Mind
The Self in the Postmodern Age
Av Daniel R. White, Gert Hellerich
Häftad, 1998
401 kr
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Applies postmodern theory to the working assumptions and consequent practices of therapy in various disciplines, from clinical psychology to schooling.Labyrinths of the Mind critically engages and creatively transforms the patterns of postmodern culture. It envisions strategies of self-discovery …
