Lexington Books: 3858 books
Irish Migrants in New Communities
Seeking the Fair Land?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history...
by Lisa Benton-Short, Raymond Blanton, Timothy J. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated...
by Angela R. Demovic
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
B-drinking is a strategy whereby dancers, waitresses, and otherwise legally employed women illegally solicit drinks from tourists for pay. Unique to the ethnographic literature on strip clubs, Bourbon Street, B-Drinking, and the Sexual Economy of Tourism focuses on the role of alcohol sales in the...
Recollecting Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of Mark Helprin
The Love That Moves the Sun and the Other Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
This book studies several of Mark Helprin’s novels in terms of their relation to Dante’s Divine Comedy. The authors demonstrate that A Soldier of the Great War, In Sunlight and in Shadow, and Winter’s Tale substantially correspond to, respectively, Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso....
The Federal Theatre Project in the American South
The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935, she envisioned a national theatre comprised of...
Writing the Harlem Renaissance
Revisiting the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The contributors in this study examine the historical Harlem community during its renaissance period as well as its present-day community. A cursory investigation of the existent that focus on the Harlem community during its renaissance of the early twentieth century reveals that the compilations...
Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb
Of Our Own Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans....
Speaking Green with a Southern Accent
Environmental Management and Innovation in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...
Raoul Peck
Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which power and politics traverse the work of Peck...
American Remakes of British Television
Transformations and Mistranslations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like...
by Tamara L. Falicov, Ben Goldsmith, Janice Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites...
Screening the Nonhuman
Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as...
When France Was King of Cartography
The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2007
Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a rich source for historians and historians of science investigating patronage, the governmental initiatives and support for science, and the governmental involvement in early modern commerce. Over the course of nearly two centuries (1594-1789),...
by Scott Malia
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Giorgio Strehler Directs Carlo Goldoni uses Giorgio Strehler’s Goldoni productions (and Arlecchino servitore di due padroni in particular) as a means to defining his directorial aesthetic. The book provides a framework for examining the director’s career that is expansive rather than restrictive,...