The Feminization of American Culture, Paperback - Ann Douglas

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their root...

Reducere. Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and tra...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Reducere. An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of ...

Reducere. Esalen is on the edge. Located in Big Sur, California, just off Highway 1, Esalen is, geographically speaking, a literal cliff, hanging rather prec...

Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

Reducere. The ultimate guide to conception, birth, and everything in betweenUnlike those other bossy, tell-you-what-to-do pregnancy books, this funny, entert...

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Reducere. Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Ale...

Americanisation and demystification of America. 21st century Romanian perceptions of American culture - Irina David

Reducere. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas an American Slave By Frederick Douglas

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Reducere. Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the govern...

Specially-commissioned essays analyse the history, politics, art and literature of Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present day. A ...

Reducere. Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically--...

Reducere. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-et...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

Reducere. "The bookshelf next to my desk holds Christian classics and books I refer to often. Idols sits on that shelf, for Herb's lucid critique has been an...

Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-f...

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Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reducere. From what we eat and wear to how we spend our money and our leisure time, Americans have developed a unique culture that binds us together despite ...

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

Offers an original theoretical paradigm for thinking through race and nature by showing that diverse constructions of nature are deployed as a mean...

Reducere. In its heyday Motown Records was a household word, one of the most famous and successful black-owned businesses in American history, and, arguably,...

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Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

From the collages of Romare Bearden and paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat to the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison to the music of Louis A...

Reducere. A rich potpourri of articles and paintings on Gullah art, history, fiction, recipes, and language along with social commentary which clarifies the ...

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

DescriptionOur current less-is-more impulse may have contemporary trappings, says David E. Shi, but the underlying ideal has been around for centur...

Reducere. Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in f...

Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

Ann Swidler's work is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how the culture of love shapes th...

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