Raiding the Icebox. Reflections on Twentieth-century Culture, Hardback - Peter Wollen

Provides a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how artistic statements of the er...

A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Timothy SnyderNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 190 x 262 x 27Cover type: HardbackIllus...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the publ...

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first underst...

This volume collects a series of influential early twentieth-century essays on the role of museumsPublisher: Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Depa...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

Paperback edition of Judt's final book, which was written up by Snyder from conversations he had with the great historian as he suffered from a fat...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): John Rennie ShortNumber of pages: 182Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

A safety pin was all that kept Spectacular Bid from becoming the eleventh Thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown. This work examines Spectacular Bid...

Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

Contributor(s): Author: Furio JesiTranslator: Richard BraudeIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used b...

First published as a special issue of Global Discourse, this book explores the theoretical position of post-Marxism and investigates its significan...

The emergence of photography and film in the twentieth century helped to establish a dominant culture of images. This extended treatment of the poe...

Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Peter SelgTranslator: Pauline WehrleNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 7...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last cent...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Associate Pr...

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and th...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Nicolette JonesIllustration(s): 46 illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 246 x 30...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USAAuthor(s): Isaac ButlerIllustration(s): Images throughout and an 8pg B&W insertNumber of pages: 512Publication ...

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth-Century offers an accessible and fresh approach to an object of interdisciplinary research that is curr...

Reducere. Biblical inerrancy is under attack. Now more than ever, the church needs to carefully consider what it stands to lose should this crucial doctrine ...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...