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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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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Trafton John
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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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Lechner Frank J
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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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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 |
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Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film / / edited by Julie Chappell, Mallory Young |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 301 |
Soggetto topico |
Culture
Gender Popular Culture United States—Study and teaching Motion pictures—United States Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Culture and Gender American Culture American Cinema and TV Contemporary Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-47259-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1.Introduction - Mallory Young -- 2.“How do you like my darkness now?”: Women, Violence, and the Good ‘Bad Girl’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Kaley A. Kramer -- 3. Hollywood’s Warrior Woman for the New Millennium - Kate Waites -- 4. Reading Kathleen Mallory: Trauma and Survival in the Detective Fiction of Carol O’Connell - Kathleen A. Kennedy -- 5. Vera Caspary’s Bedelia: Murder as a Domestic Art, or Lethal Home Economics - Kirsten T. Saxton -- 6. The Dirty Secret: Domestic Disarray in Chick Lit - Joanne Knowles -- 7. Good Teachers, Bad Teachers, and Comedic Performance in Popular American Cinema - Joel Gwynne -- 8. Mean Girls End Up Dead: The Dismal Fate of Teen Queen Bees in Popular Culture - Sara K. Day -- 9. Bad Girl, Bad Mother, Bad Queen: Catherine de’ Medici in Contemporary Fiction, Film, and History - William B. Robison -- 10. “Let Them Know That Men Did This”: Medusa, Rape, and Female Rivalry in Contemporary Film and Women’s Writing - Elizabeth Johnston -- 11. At the Crossroads: Carnival, Hybridity, Legendary Womanhood in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber - N.A. Pierce -- 12. Just Another Monster: Michonne’s Defiance in The Walking Dead - Samaa Abdurraqib -- 13. Bad Girls in Outer Space: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga and the Graphic Representation of Subversive Femininity - Mihaela Precup and Dragoş Manea. |
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The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958 / / by Glyne A. Griffith |
Autore | Griffith Glyne A |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 230 p.) |
Disciplina | 809 |
Collana | New Caribbean Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Comparative literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature Ethnology—Europe United States—Study and teaching Comparative Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Postcolonial/World Literature British Culture American Culture |
ISBN | 3-319-32118-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The Genesis of Caribbean Voices: People and Policies -- The Critics’ Circle -- Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-Colonial Community -- A Sustaining Epistolarly Community -- The Naipaul / Mittelholzer Years: 1954-58 -- Afterword. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155314303321 |
Griffith Glyne A
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Brands and Cultural Analysis / / by Arthur Asa Berger |
Autore | Berger Arthur Asa |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
658.827
306.30973 |
Collana | Palgrave pivot |
Soggetto topico |
Communication
Popular Culture United States—Study and teaching Digital media Branding (Marketing) Media and Communication American Culture Digital/New Media Branding |
ISBN | 3-030-24709-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I: Theoretical Considerations -- 1. Introduction: Thinking About Brands -- 2. What is a Brand? A Semiotic Analysis -- 3. Brands and the Psyche -- 4. Brands in Society, Society in Brands -- 5. Marketing Brands -- 6. Brands in History, History in Brands -- 7. Language and Brands -- 8. Visual Branding: Logos, Icons and Images -- Part II: Applications -- 9. The Branded Self -- 10. San Francisco as a Brand -- 11. Japan as a Brand -- 12. Brand Competition: Cruises -- 13. Brand Sacrality -- 14. Brand Discourse -- 15. Brand and Myth -- 16. Coda. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484655203321 |
Berger Arthur Asa
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