How do works from film and literature -- Sister Carrie, Meet Me in St. Louis, and A History of Violence, for example -- imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? Adam …
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Chapter: 1 introduction -- Chapter: 2 yearning for the ussr -- Chapter 3: economic bedlam -- Chapter 4: social glue -- Chapter 5: glory days -- Chapter 6: the politics of the past and present -- Chapter 7: uncertainty in the future. This book explores the extent to which and th…
An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.
An indispensable study of exploitation cinema's continuing allure Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items that are more accessible than ever. In this wide-ranging new stu…
"Heroic poetry was central to the construction of Anglo-Saxon values, beliefs, and community identity and its subject matter is often analyzed as a window into Anglo-Saxon life. However, these poems are works of art as well as vehicles for ideology. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads…