1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524872203321

Autore

Kroes Rob

Titolo

Prison Area, Independence Valley : American Paradoxes in Political Life and Popular Culture / / Rob Kroes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hanover, New Hampshire : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2015

©2015

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Re-mapping the transnational

Disciplina

306.097309/05

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States

Political culture - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 2009-

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

United States Civilization 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The George W. Bush administration and European anti-Americanism -- The ascent of the falling man : an iconic image of 9/11 -- Cool hand luck : how America played its hand entertaining the world -- Musical America : staging the U.S.A. to the sounds of music -- A spaghetti southern : landscapes of fear in Quentin Tarantino's Django unchained -- Freaks on display : a tale of empathy and ostracism -- American responses to the Holocaust : atrocity photographs as nomadic objects -- Barack Hussein Obama : two portrait sketches -- Obama and the paradox of American global power : dreams of democracy and the imperial imperative -- Taking exception.

Sommario/riassunto

A major voice in transnational American studies addresses politics and culture in post-9/11 America



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00328831

Autore

BOASE, T. S. R.

Titolo

Death in the Middle Ages : mortality, judgment and remembrance / T.S.R. Boase

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Thames and Hudson, c1972

ISBN

05-00-57007-8

Descrizione fisica

144 p. ; 22 cm.

Soggetti

Medioevo - Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia