Race and the Suburbs in American Film, Paperback - Merrill Schleier

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

DescriptionDon Graham's Giant is a larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the a...

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an in...

Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...

Reducere. This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the fa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert B. PippinThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unu...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

DescriptionA study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Litera...

Offers the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema ...

Appalachia resides in the American imagination at the intersections of race and class in a very particular way, in the tension between deep histori...

Reducere. Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races, " c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Literature Into Film Film Into Literature. Case Studies in American Literature and Film - Ileana Jitareu Chiru

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

She dove into the ocean simply to play with wild dolphins and whales, but emerged a decade later a different person. Hawaii-born author, therapist,...

Reducere. Two time periods. Two coasts. Lives intertwined and impacted forever . . .Greed, societal forces, religion, eugenics, and racial prejudice came tog...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

DescriptionIn The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qual...

Un film de fictune care se petrece in lumea fascinanta a unuia dintre cele grozave scandaluri ale anilor 1970, American Hustle/Teapa in stil americ...

Publisher: Indra PublishingAuthor(s): Myer BloomNumber of pages: 346Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 211 x 144 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, La...

Contributor(s): Author: Thomas C. LeonardIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda ...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

Reducere. Barry Seal: Trafic in stil American e povestea incredibil de adevarata a unui pilot care a reusit sa conduca una din cele mai mari operatiuni sub a...

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Susan GillmanIllustration(s): 26 halftonesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

Self-Sufficiency in the Suburbs Gardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everyth...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sean J. DrakeIllustration(s): 14 b-w photos, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. DescriptionImplications and Distinctions: Format, Content and Context in Contemporary Race Film considers performances of blackness in contemporary...

Uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the stu...

Reducere. The eastern screech owl, widespread over the eastern half of North America and noticeably tolerant of human activity, is one of America's most fami...

Reducere. In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--d...

Reducere. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung...