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  • The Evolution of the Western

    The American Frontier in Film and Television

    by Martin Kich ...
    Explore the enduring influence of the Western – the quintessential American film genre – and its essential role in US and world culture.Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, like Unforgiven ... Read more

    Was $89.09 USD Now $32.39 USD

  • Pop Goes the Decade

    The Sixties

    by Martin Kich, Aaron Barlow ...
    Series series Pop Goes the Decade
    Analyzing complex social and political issues through their manifestations in popular culture, this book provides readers a strong foundational knowledge of the 1960s as a decade.1969 went out in a way that could never have been imagined in 1960. While the president at the end of the decade had been vice president at the start, the intervening years permanently changed American culture.Pop Goes ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age

    Interdisciplinary Essays

    Edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi, Martin Kich ...
    The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical levels of postcolonial studies. By studying film, literature, history and architecture, they arrive at new ideas about immigration, gender, cultural ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • The Movement

    How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

    by Clara Bingham ...
    **This “**indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from the author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.Through the captivating individual voices ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Beginning postcolonialism

    Second edition

    by John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area.Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Who We Be

    The Colorization of America

    by Jeff Chang ...
    Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today.During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope—another four-letter word—is still plunged into endless culture wars.How ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • America on Film

    Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

    by Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin ...
    A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuriesAmerica on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. Celebrated authors and academics Harry M. ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Anthropology and Social Theory

    Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

    by Sherry B. Ortner ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Celluloid Indians

    Native Americans and Film

    by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick ...
    Native American characters have been the most malleable of metaphors for filmmakers. The likeable Doc of Stagecoach (1939) had audiences on the edge of their seats with dire warnings about “that old butcher, Geronimo.” Old Lodgeskins of Little Big Man (1970) had viewers crying out against the demise of the noble, wise chief and his kind and simple people. In 1995 Disney created a beautiful, peace ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Questions of Travel

    Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

    by Caren Kaplan, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this “traveling theory,” and shows how various discourses of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hollywood's West

    The American Frontier in Film, Television, & History

    by Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    "An excellent study that should interest film buffs, academics, and non-academics alike" ( Journal of the West).Hollywood's West examines popular perceptions of the frontier as a defining feature of American identity and history. Seventeen essays by prominent film scholars illuminate the allure of life on the edge of civilization and analyze how this region has been represented on big and small ... Read more

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    Was $48.99 USD Now $43.99 USD