Mid-20th-century Culture – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 3

Robert Calder
Somerset Maugham and the Cinema

William Somerset Maugham (1874--1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century---and his works have been among the most cinematically transformed in history. For more …

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amateur filmmaking devices and represents one of the earliest attempts to create a domest…

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John Wells,
American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1960s Volume Two

"The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of full-color hardcovers where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! John Wel…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Margot Canaday
Queer Career

A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited at…

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Dennis Mcnally
The Last Great Dream

"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Marie Sophie Beckmann
Films That Spill

Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, perfo…

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Kim Luperi, Danny Reid
Pre-Code Essentials

From Turner Classic Movies and the creators of @precodedotcom, this is the essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era---a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before str…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Laura Ryan
D. H. Lawrence and Black Modernism

The first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernist writers - Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean …

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Marie Sophie Beckmann
Films That Spill

Films That Spill is a comprehensive study of the Cinema of Transgression, a hitherto underexamined moment in US underground film culture. Reconsidering the concept of transgressive cinema not only as a de…

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Achille Castaldo
Ascetic Images

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural producers of the twentieth century.The product of centuries of systemic violence and act…

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Andrea Horbinski
Manga's First Century

"Manga are big. And in the growing field of manga studies, Andrea Horbinski's work is a standout. With years of deep research, rich new insights, and sparkling prose, Manga's First Century will delig…

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Roland Betancourt
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiencesWhen Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory a…

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Aldo Cazzullo
The God of Our Fathers

"I began reading the Bible at my father's bedside." During the last weeks of his father's life, Aldo Cazzullo begins rereading the Bible to better understand the world his devout father inhabite…

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John Crowe Ransom,
Land!

Ransom's Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites John Crowe Ransom's poetic sensibilities with his argument for an agrarian economy as an alternative to capitalism.

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