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

Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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The Pet Shop Boys and the Political

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and p…

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Doug Brod
Born with a Tail

"When Anton LaVey burst onto the San Francisco scene right before the Summer of Love, he parlayed his eerie obsessions into a philosophy and lifestyle that capitalized on a New Age rage. With his sig…

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Emma Marriott
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

A perfect gift for Downton Abbey fans, this official film companion gives an unprecedented look at the art and making of the third film in the Downton Abbey franchise.

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Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister
The Bonkbuster

Offers a dedicated and detailed theorization and genre study of the "bonkbuster," a phenomenally popular genre of women's fiction in the late 20th century.

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Walter Hopps, Deborah Treisman, Anne Doran
The Dream Colony

"An intimate tour through fifty years of American art history" (New Yorker) through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it-with an introduction by legendary artist Ed Ruscha

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Tabassum Ruhi Khan
Downton Abbey

This book examines Downton Abbey's dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and privilege in narrative structuring and to understand audiences' uncritical acceptance of …

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It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps, Expanded Edition

Expanded edition covering the Adventure Magazine genre of Cold-War masculinity including new material wartime xenophobic American magazine articles and advertisements.

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Paul Mcewan
Cinema's Original Sin

How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

"In The Enchanting Kinora, Elizabeth Evans examines the Kinora in its technological, industrial and socio-cultural context to explore how early attempts to domesticate moving images were configured. …

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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a crit…

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Alison Fields
Lone Star

A deft history and analysis of John Sayles' 1996 cinematic masterpiece. Alison Fields places Lone Star in a western film framework and emphasizes Lone Star's ability to highlight the conflicts between soc…

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John K Young
The Roots of Cane

"This book proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, and of the modernist period more generally, Jean Toomer's Cane (1923)--or rather, a way not to re…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Magic Rays of Light is an original and ambitious history of the largely unknown early years of television in Britain. A detailed cultural study of the first demonstrations, of the extensive experimental b…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Popular memory holds that television in Britain began with the 1953 Coronation. But as Magic Rays of Light reveals, extensive programming throughout the 1930s was creatively rich, complex and excitingly i…

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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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