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Jazz and Postwar French Identity
Improvising the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally...
Crosstalk
Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial,...
Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster
Social Critique in Films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Can blockbuster films be socially relevant or are they just escapist diversions to entertain the masses and enrich the studios? Not every successful film contains thoughtful commentary, but some that are marketed as pure entertainment do seriously engage social issues. Popular science fiction films...
Faith in Bikinis
Politics and Leisure in the Coastal South since the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
While traditional industries like textile or lumber mills have received a majority of the scholarly attention devoted to southern economic development, Faith in Bikinis presents an untold story of the New South, one that explores how tourism played a central role in revitalizing the southern economy...
Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery
William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824–1900; 1826–1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his “master’s” devoted...
Virtuous Vice
Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2000
In this daring study of queer life and the public sphere, Eric O. Clarke examines the effects of inclusion within public culture. Departing from studies that emphasize homophobia and its mechanisms of exclusion, Virtuous Vice details how mainstream efforts to represent queers affirmatively continually...
They Live
A Novel Approach to Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
“One of the cleverest, most accessibly in-depth film books released this year . . . a smart-ass novelist exploring a cheesy-cheeky ‘80s sci-fi flick” (Hartford Advocate).
Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters...
Consumer Culture Reborn
The Cultural Politics of Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Horse in Early Modern English Culture
Bridled, Curbed, and Tamed
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic,...
Why TV Is Not Our Fault
Television Programming, Viewers, and Who's Really in Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
For more than five decades, we've been told by pundits, commentators, advertisers, scholars, and politicians that television is both a window on the world and a mirror reflecting our culture. We've been led to believe that it shows us the world's events through news programs and, through entertainment...
Starstruck
When a Fan Gets Close to Fame
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Why are we so obsessed with fame? In Starstruck, former autograph hound and current entertainment journalist Michael Joseph Gross searches for the answer as he travels from Hollywood to Dollywood, Neverland to Middle Earth. He chases after Mick Jagger with a professional autograph collector; gets...
The Georgia Straight
A 50th Anniversary Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This highly illustrated and beautifully produced coffee-table book brings together over 100 of the Georgia Straight's iconic covers, along with short essays, insider details and contributor reflections, putting each of these issues of the publication into its historical context.
For 50 years...
by Ralph G. Giordano
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
On the surface, the 1950s was a time of post-war prosperity and abundance. However, in spite of a relaxation of immigration policies, the "good life" in the 50s was mainly confined to white non-ethnic Americans. A new Cold War with the Soviet Union intended to contain the threat of Communism,...
Human Rights
Concepts, Contests, Contingencies
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic...