The Afterlife of the Hollywood Western [[electronic resource] /] / by Pete Falconer |
Autore | Falconer Pete |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (227 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.436278 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures—History
Film genres United States—Study and teaching Film History Genre American Culture |
ISBN | 1-137-54671-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The rhetoric of genre -- Chapter 3: “Fixing” the Western -- Chapter 4: The Wild West and the Dirty South, or, by their teeth ye shall know them -- Chapter 5: Once upon a time -- Chapter 6: Old men and old movies -- Chapter 7: The Western’s greatest hits -- Chapter 8: Hybrids and transpositions. |
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Age of the Geek : Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media / / edited by Kathryn E. Lane |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 297 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.230973 |
Soggetto topico |
Popular Culture
Ethnology - America Culture Sex Film genres Communication American Culture Gender Studies Genre Studies Media and Communication |
ISBN | 3-319-65744-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299998903321 |
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American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy : The Fragmented Kaleidoscope / / by Thomas J. Cobb |
Autore | Cobb Thomas J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 pages) |
Disciplina |
791.43658
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Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - United States
American Cinema and TV American Culture US Politics |
ISBN | 3-030-42678-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1: Rehabilitations of idealism - action, satire and the late 1990s -- Chapter 2: Unanticipated synergy - lost innocence in early 2000s war cinema -- Chapter 3: ‘The thaw’ - the 2004 election and questions of cultural diplomacy -- Chapter 4: Imperial overstretch and the nihilistic frontier - Western political allegory in the late 2000s -- Chapter 5: Apex of allegory - Blockbuster responses to the end of the Bush era -- Chapter 6 (concluding chapter): Forever fragmented - Obama to Trump and the new identitarianism of IR dichotomies. |
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The American Civil War and the Hollywood War Film [[electronic resource] /] / by John Trafton |
Autore | Trafton John |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 194 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/658737 |
Soggetto topico |
United States—Study and teaching
Motion pictures—History United States—History American Culture Film History US History |
ISBN | 1-137-49702-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Civil War, Pathos Formula, and Genre Memory -- 1. Civil War Paintings and the War Panorama 2. Panorama, Phantasmagoria, and Subjective Vision in War Cinema -- 3. War Photography -- 4. Photography and the War Film -- 5. The Soldier Diary -- 6. Civil War Epistolary and the Hollywood War Film -- Coda. |
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The American Exception, Volume 1 [[electronic resource] /] / by Frank J. Lechner |
Autore | Lechner Frank J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 253 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Soggetto topico |
Social sciences—Philosophy
United States—Study and teaching United States—History Social Theory American Culture US History |
ISBN | 1-137-58717-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2.“A Shining City”? Perspectives on the American Exception -- 3. “A Sea of Faith”: The American Religious Exception -- 4.“Equal Justice under Law”: The American Legal Exception -- 5. “Almost an Island unto Itself”: The American Sports Exception. |
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Lechner Frank J
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The American Exception, Volume 2 [[electronic resource] /] / by Frank J. Lechner |
Autore | Lechner Frank J |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 239 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Soggetto topico |
Cultural studies
United States—Study and teaching United States—History Cultural Studies American Culture US History |
ISBN | 1-137-58720-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. “People of Plenty”: The American Economic Exception -- 2. “Land of Liberty”: The American Governmental Exception -- 3. “No Business Like Show Business”: The American Media Exception -- 4. “Dangerous Nation”: The American Power Exception. . |
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American Horror Fiction and Class [[electronic resource] ] : From Poe to Twilight / / by David Simmons |
Autore | Simmons David |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 201 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Collana | Palgrave Gothic |
Soggetto topico |
United States—Study and teaching
Culture—Study and teaching Fiction Popular Culture Film genres American Culture Cultural Theory Genre |
Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
ISBN | 1-137-53280-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Establishing the Place of Class in US Gothic and Horror Fiction -- 2. Class and Horror Fiction during the Early Twentieth Century -- 3. Class and Horror Fiction at Mid-Century -- 4. Representing Class during the Horror Boom of the 1970s and 1980s -- 5. Horror Fiction and Class in the Contemporary1. Introduction: Establishing the Place of Class in US Gothic and Horror Fiction -- 2. Class and Horror Fiction during the Early Twentieth Century -- 3. Class and Horror Fiction at Mid-Century -- 4. Representing Class during the Horror Boom of the 1970s and 1980s -- 5. Horror Fiction and Class in the Contemporary Period. Period. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255088903321 |
Simmons David
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American Revenge Narratives : A Collection of Critical Essays / / edited by Kyle Wiggins |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 288 p. 4 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 306.0973 |
Soggetto topico |
United States—Study and teaching
Popular Culture Motion pictures—United States America—Literatures Communication American Culture American Cinema and TV North American Literature Media and Communication |
ISBN | 3-319-93746-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction – Kyle Wiggins -- 2. Wakening “The Eyes of Dreamers”: Revenge in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café – Lisa Hoffman-Reyes -- 3. Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Tragedy of Revenge and Reparation – Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem -- 4. Masculinity in Don DeLilllo’s White Noise: Mapping the Self, Killing the Other – Michael James Rizza -- 5. From Revenge to Restorative Justice in Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRose – Seema Kurup -- 6. The Great (White) Wail: Percival Everett’s The Water Cure and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia – Beth A. McCoy -- 7. The Modern American Revenge Story – Kyle Wiggins -- 8. “What if nature were trying to get back at us?”: Animals as Agents of Nature's Revenge in Horror Cinema – Michael Fuchs -- 9. A Cinema of Vengeance: Vietnam Veterans, Traumatic Recovery, and Historical Revisionism in 1980s Hollywood – Marc Diefenderfer -- 10. Vengeance is Mine: Gender and Vigilante Justice in Mainstream Cinema – Paul Doro -- 11. “Revenge, at first though sweet, / Bitter ere long back on itself recoils:” Patriarchy and Revenge in Unforgiven and True Grit – Jim Daems -- 12. Tearing Down the Eiffel Tower: Post-9/11 Fears and Fantasies in Taken – Terence McSweeney. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300031603321 |
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American Women's Regionalist Fiction : Mapping the Gothic / / edited by Monika Elbert, Rita Bode |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 372 p. 2 illus.) |
Disciplina | 813.08729099287 |
Collana | Palgrave Gothic |
Soggetto topico |
Fiction
America - Literatures Sex Books - History Ethnology - America Culture Fiction Literature North American Literature Gender Studies History of the Book American Culture |
ISBN | 3-030-55552-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- New England Gothic: Resisting Nation -- Nancy Sweet, “Gothic Woods and the Shining City on a Hill: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’” -- Melissa McFarland Pennell, “New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Giles Corey and the Salem Witchcraft Episode” -- Cécile Roudeau, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic: ‘Lady Ferry’ and the Uncanny Durability of Colonial History” -- New England’s Landscapes and the Eco-Gothic -- Rita Bode, “Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke” -- Daniel Mrozowski, “Hallowed Ground: The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman” -- Cynthia Murillo, “Life By Landscape: The Sublime and the Spectacle of Transcendence in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Wharton” -- Southern Gothic: Folklore, Superstition, Race -- Alicia Mischa Renfroe ‘That Dim Abode’: Uncanny Region in Rebecca Harding Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier” -- Wendy Ryden, “Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in Bayou Folk” -- Ellen Weinauer, “The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s The Household of Bouverie” -- Jeffrey Weinstock, “Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic” -- Valerie Levy, ““Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Folklore” -- West Coast Gothic -- Lesley Ginsberg, “Mary Austin’s California Gothic” -- Dara Downey, “Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic” -- Laura Laffrado, “’It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others have Faded into the Mists’: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains’” -- Laura Mielke, “Zitkala Sa’s Defiant Gothicism” -- Midwest Hauntings -- Monika Elbert, “Alice Cary and Margaret Fuller: Mundane Musings and Great Lakes Hauntings” -- Stéphanie Durrans, “Specters of the Great Plains: Cather’s My Antonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel” -- Jane Anne Fleming, “Gothic Spaces and the “Homeland”: Resisting Exceptionalism in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction”. |
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Anatomy of the Superhero Film / / by Larrie Dudenhoeffer |
Autore | Dudenhoeffer Larrie |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Disciplina | 741.43652 |
Soggetto topico |
Film genres
Motion pictures Motion pictures—United States United States—Study and teaching Genre Film Theory American Cinema and TV American Culture |
ISBN | 3-319-57922-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. X-Ray Visions: An Introduction to an Anatomy of the Superhero Film -- Chapter 2. Chart 1: An X-Ray into the Endo-Prosthetic Superbody -- Chapter 3. Chart 2: An X-Ray into the Exo-Prosthetic Superbody -- Chapter 4. Chart 3: An X-Ray into the Epi-Prosthetic Superbody -- Chapter 5. Chart 4: An X-Ray into the Ecto-Prosthetic Superbody -- Chapter 6. Imaging Results: An Addendum on Superhuman Embodiment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255095603321 |
Dudenhoeffer Larrie
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