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American Encounters
Author | : Angela L. Miller |
Publsiher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : 0130300047 |
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"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.
Digital Encounters
Author | : Cecily Raynor,Rhian Lewis |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2023-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781487538811 |
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To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production. Drawing on a spectrum of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine literature, art, and political activism as they dialogue with programming languages, social media platforms, online publishing, and geospatial metadata. Implicit within these connections are questions of power, privilege, and stratification. The book critically examines issues of inequitable access and data privacy, technology’s capacity to divide people from one another, and the digital space as a site of racialized and gendered violence. Through an expansive approach to the study of connectivity, Digital Encounters illustrates how new connections – between analog and digital, human and machine, print text and pixel – alter representations of self, Other, and world.
Americanization and Anti Americanism
Author | : Alexander Stephan |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1571816739 |
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The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer and its effects on local societies and their attitudes toward the United States. This volume presents Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two unusually destructive wars, massive ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster. Drawing on examples from history, culture studies, film, radio, and the arts, the authors explore the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism, as reflected in the reception and rejection of American popular culture and, more generally, in European-American relations in the "American Century." Alexander Stephan is Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security and Public Policy at Ohio State University, where he directs a project on American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the world.
Epic Encounters
Author | : Melani McAlister |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2005-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520932012 |
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Epic Encounters examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. In this innovative book—now brought up-to-date to include 9/11 and the Iraq war—Melani McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This remarkable and pathbreaking book skillfully weaves lively and accessible readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history. The new chapter, titled "9/11 and After: Snapshots on the Road to Empire," considers and brilliantly analyzes five images that have become iconic: (1) New York City firemen raising the American flag out of the rubble of the World Trade Center, (2) the televised image of Osama bin-Laden, (3) Afghani women in burqas, (4) the statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad, and (5) the hooded and wired prisoner in Abu Ghraib. McAlister's singular achievement is to illuminate the contexts of these five images both at the time they were taken and as they relate to current events, an accomplishment all the more remarkable since—to paraphrase her new preface—we are today struggling to look backward at something that is still rushing ahead.
The German American Encounter
Author | : Frank Trommler,Elliott Shore |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1571812407 |
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While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.
Close Encounters of Empire
Author | : Gilbert Michael Joseph,Catherine LeGrand,Ricardo Donato Salvatore |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822320991 |
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Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
Queer Externalities
Author | : W. C. Harris |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781438427676 |
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Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U.S.
Alien Encounters
Author | : Mimi Thi Nguyen,Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2007-04-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822339226 |
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DIVA collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows./div