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  • The Martian Trilogy

    It is the 1930s and John P. Moore, an ambitious author, has just had his first story, a science fiction tale featuring the adventures of scientists and journalists taking the first trip to the planet Mars, published in Amazing Stories.But you won't find that story, along with its two sequels, inside the pages of any copy of Amazing Stories – not in a pulp magazine collector's vault, not on the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Johnny Guitar

    Collections series Reel West Series
    The first book on the groundbreaking 1954 Western by director Nicholas Ray, controversial in its time, now celebrated as a groundbreaking example of high camp, LGBTQ themes, and the outer limits of the Hollywood system.What to make of Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray’s high-drama psychological Western from 1954? The film met with a mixed reception on its release but over the years has assumed cult ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Black Pulp

    Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow

    A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justiceIn recent years, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Marvel’s Black Panther, and HBO’s Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just ... En savoir plus

    $109.99 CAD

  • "I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now"

    Phrenology, Detection, and Cultural Hierarchy in S. S. Van Dine

    This article reads Willard Huntington Wright's work against his anxieties about cultural hierarchy and value, utilizing archival work in Wright's papers at the University of Virginia and unearthing a previously unknown series of crime stories that he published under another pseudonym a decade before his success as bestselling detective novelist S. S. Van Dine. The author argues that Wright's work ... En savoir plus

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Word on the Streets

    The American Language of Vernacular Modernism

    From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism—one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and ethnicity.The dawn of the modernist era witnessed a transformation of popular writing that demonstrated an ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

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  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

    Modifié par Timothy Parrish ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • America Noir

    Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era

    par David Cochran ...
    In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers challenged the social pieties prevalent during the Cold War, such as the superiority of the American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family. Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone featured victims of vast, faceless, bureaucratic powers. Jim Thompson's noir thrillers, such as The Grifters, ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

    Modifié par John N. Duvall ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cinematic Flashes

    Cinephilia and Classical Hollywood

    Cinematic Flashes challenges popular notions of a uniform Hollywood style by disclosing uncanny networks of incongruities, coincidences, and contingencies at the margins of the cinematic frame. In an agile demonstration of "cinephiliac" historiography, Rashna Wadia Richards extracts intriguing film fragments from their seemingly ordinary narratives in order to explore what these unexpected moments ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Realism for the Masses

    Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947

    par Chris Vials ...
    Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the left social movements of the ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • American Night

    The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

    par Alan M. Wald ...
    American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald’s multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD