Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558495869
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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"Sets out to trace the vicissitudes of America's self-image since World War ll as they showed up in popular culture: war toys, war comics, war reporting, and war films. It succeeds brilliantly ... Engelhardt's prose is smart and smooth, and his book is social and cultural history of a high order." Boston Globe, from the bookjacket.
Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.
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Author: Bob Batchelor
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0313357811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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This three-volume collection of original essays examines cult pop culture, the often-seedy underbelly of American popular culture. • 60 essays examine cult topics based on linked subject matter • Organization by subject enables readers to quickly find what interests them most • A "Further Reading" section, including websites, films, and multimedia sources, helps readers to delve into cult pop culture topics in greater depth
Author: Paul Levine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137267666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The period from 1945 to the present day may not constitute an American century, but it can be seen as the American Moment: the time when, for good or ill, the United States became the predominant political, military, economic and cultural power in the world. This revised and updated new edition introduces the historic and tumultuous developments in American politics, foreign policy, society and culture during this period. It includes coverage of key recent events, such as the: - 2008 election of Barack Obama - global recession - protracted war in Iraq and Afghanistan - rise of the internet - transformation of American Society and Culture - challenges of new immigration and multi-culturalism - changing global status of the US in the new millennium. Examining the American Moment in a global context, the authors emphasise the interaction between politics, society and culture. America Since 1945 encourages an awareness of how central currents in art, literature, film, theatre, intellectual history and media have developed alongside an understanding of political, economic and social change.
Author: Evelyn A. Schlatter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292774841
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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During the last third of the twentieth century, white supremacists moved, both literally and in the collective imagination, from midnight rides through Mississippi to broadband-wired cabins in Montana. But while rural Montana may be on the geographical fringe of the country, white supremacist groups were not pushed there, and they are far from "fringe elements" of society, as many Americans would like to believe. Evelyn Schlatter's startling analysis describes how many of the new white supremacist groups in the West have co-opted the region's mythology and environment based on longstanding beliefs about American character and Manifest Destiny to shape an organic, home-grown movement. Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the old ideal of the West as a land of opportunity waiting to be settled by self-reliant traditional families. Some even envision the region as a potential white homeland. Groups such as Aryan Nations, The Order, and Posse Comitatus use controversial issues such as affirmative action, anti-Semitism, immigration, and religion to create sympathy for their extremist views among mainstream whites—while offering a "solution" in the popular conception of the West as a place of freedom, opportunity, and escape from modern society. Aryan Cowboys exposes the exclusionist message of this "American" ideal, while documenting its dangerous appeal.
Author: Marilyn J. Matelski
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786416738
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across five decades. The essays, written especially for this volume, explore topics such as frontier justice, Cold War fervor, government-sponsored terrorism, the "back-to-Nam" films, films as a venue for propaganda, and war's far-reaching effects on personal values, family relationships, and general civility. The movies used in these analyses vary from conventional battle epics like Bridge on the River Kwai and The Green Berets to motion pictures with a war motif either as part of the story (The Way We Were) or as a historical setting (The Graduate). Some of the films are satirical (Dr. Strangelove); some are propagandistic (The Alamo, Big Jim McLain). Other films include Black Hawk Down, True Lies, The Deer Hunter, Patriot Games and Let There Be Light. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Diederik Oostdijk
Publisher: Vu University Press Amsterdam
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Exploring topics such as poetry, politics, and cultures of war, this collection of 16 essays tells alternative, contradictory, and complicated stories about World War II, demonstrating that the United States was not always a champion of liberty and justice as some would like the general public to believe.
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 9781560259381
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Profiles in Dissent is a collection of remarkably fresh and provocative interviews with some of the iconoclastic thinkers and activists of our time. These candid conversations — ranging from Howard Zinn to Chalmers Johnson, Cindy Sheehan to Mike Davis, Ann Wright, who retired from the State Department to protest the Iraqi invasion and became "a felon for peace," to Boston Globe columnist James Carroll — focus on the Bush administration's imperial dreams and ham-handed acts. They suggest new ways to frame American global policy, while catching something of the white heat of our moment, and offer a chronicle and original perspectives on our troubling times. Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com — who has been called "the I.F. Stone of the internet" — brings the immediacy of the moment to his introductions and his questions. His daily Tomgrams contain his parsing of contemporary news events, as well as his posting of original content from some of America's leading progressive thinkers. A quarter million readers a month visit his website (and hundreds of thousands more read his dispatches posted elsewhere on the Internet).
Author: Director the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Stanley Weintraub
Publisher: E P Dutton
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945.
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Recounts the final thirty days of the war, focusing on the momentous meeting of President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin at Potsdam to end the war, the last-minute diplomacy with the Japanese, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. 25,000 first printing. BOMC. History Bk Club.
Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558495869
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Book Description
"Sets out to trace the vicissitudes of America's self-image since World War ll as they showed up in popular culture: war toys, war comics, war reporting, and war films. It succeeds brilliantly ... Engelhardt's prose is smart and smooth, and his book is social and cultural history of a high order." Boston Globe, from the bookjacket.
Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Book Description
With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.
![Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream [3 volumes] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/jqd92sX1hAoC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Bob Batchelor
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0313357811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 736
View
Book Description
This three-volume collection of original essays examines cult pop culture, the often-seedy underbelly of American popular culture. • 60 essays examine cult topics based on linked subject matter • Organization by subject enables readers to quickly find what interests them most • A "Further Reading" section, including websites, films, and multimedia sources, helps readers to delve into cult pop culture topics in greater depth
Author: Paul Levine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137267666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
View
Book Description
The period from 1945 to the present day may not constitute an American century, but it can be seen as the American Moment: the time when, for good or ill, the United States became the predominant political, military, economic and cultural power in the world. This revised and updated new edition introduces the historic and tumultuous developments in American politics, foreign policy, society and culture during this period. It includes coverage of key recent events, such as the: - 2008 election of Barack Obama - global recession - protracted war in Iraq and Afghanistan - rise of the internet - transformation of American Society and Culture - challenges of new immigration and multi-culturalism - changing global status of the US in the new millennium. Examining the American Moment in a global context, the authors emphasise the interaction between politics, society and culture. America Since 1945 encourages an awareness of how central currents in art, literature, film, theatre, intellectual history and media have developed alongside an understanding of political, economic and social change.
Author: Evelyn A. Schlatter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292774841
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
View
Book Description
During the last third of the twentieth century, white supremacists moved, both literally and in the collective imagination, from midnight rides through Mississippi to broadband-wired cabins in Montana. But while rural Montana may be on the geographical fringe of the country, white supremacist groups were not pushed there, and they are far from "fringe elements" of society, as many Americans would like to believe. Evelyn Schlatter's startling analysis describes how many of the new white supremacist groups in the West have co-opted the region's mythology and environment based on longstanding beliefs about American character and Manifest Destiny to shape an organic, home-grown movement. Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the old ideal of the West as a land of opportunity waiting to be settled by self-reliant traditional families. Some even envision the region as a potential white homeland. Groups such as Aryan Nations, The Order, and Posse Comitatus use controversial issues such as affirmative action, anti-Semitism, immigration, and religion to create sympathy for their extremist views among mainstream whites—while offering a "solution" in the popular conception of the West as a place of freedom, opportunity, and escape from modern society. Aryan Cowboys exposes the exclusionist message of this "American" ideal, while documenting its dangerous appeal.
Author: Marilyn J. Matelski
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786416738
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224
View
Book Description
America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across five decades. The essays, written especially for this volume, explore topics such as frontier justice, Cold War fervor, government-sponsored terrorism, the "back-to-Nam" films, films as a venue for propaganda, and war's far-reaching effects on personal values, family relationships, and general civility. The movies used in these analyses vary from conventional battle epics like Bridge on the River Kwai and The Green Berets to motion pictures with a war motif either as part of the story (The Way We Were) or as a historical setting (The Graduate). Some of the films are satirical (Dr. Strangelove); some are propagandistic (The Alamo, Big Jim McLain). Other films include Black Hawk Down, True Lies, The Deer Hunter, Patriot Games and Let There Be Light. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Diederik Oostdijk
Publisher: Vu University Press Amsterdam
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
View
Book Description
Exploring topics such as poetry, politics, and cultures of war, this collection of 16 essays tells alternative, contradictory, and complicated stories about World War II, demonstrating that the United States was not always a champion of liberty and justice as some would like the general public to believe.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
View
Book Description
Author: Tom Engelhardt
Publisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 9781560259381
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
View
Book Description
Profiles in Dissent is a collection of remarkably fresh and provocative interviews with some of the iconoclastic thinkers and activists of our time. These candid conversations — ranging from Howard Zinn to Chalmers Johnson, Cindy Sheehan to Mike Davis, Ann Wright, who retired from the State Department to protest the Iraqi invasion and became "a felon for peace," to Boston Globe columnist James Carroll — focus on the Bush administration's imperial dreams and ham-handed acts. They suggest new ways to frame American global policy, while catching something of the white heat of our moment, and offer a chronicle and original perspectives on our troubling times. Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com — who has been called "the I.F. Stone of the internet" — brings the immediacy of the moment to his introductions and his questions. His daily Tomgrams contain his parsing of contemporary news events, as well as his posting of original content from some of America's leading progressive thinkers. A quarter million readers a month visit his website (and hundreds of thousands more read his dispatches posted elsewhere on the Internet).
Author: Director the Institute for the Arts and Humanities Stanley Weintraub
Publisher: E P Dutton
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945.
Languages : en
Pages : 730
View
Book Description
Recounts the final thirty days of the war, focusing on the momentous meeting of President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin at Potsdam to end the war, the last-minute diplomacy with the Japanese, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. 25,000 first printing. BOMC. History Bk Club.
