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Author : Anne MacLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in America, a Background to Contemporary Drug Abuse written by Anne MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Beuka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349732109
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)
Download or read book SuburbiaNation written by R. Beuka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.
Author : Merrill Schleier
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484488
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Race and the Suburbs in American Film written by Merrill Schleier and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of interest in the suburbs in film, television, and fiction in the last fifteen years, concentrating exclusively on the relationship of race to the built environment. Suburb films began as a cycle in response to both America's changing urban geography and the re-segregation of its domestic spaces in the postwar era, which excluded African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx from the suburbs while buttressing whiteness. By defying traditional categories and chronologies in cinema studies, the contributors explore the myriad ways suburban spaces and racialized bodies in film mediate each other. Race and the Suburbs in American Film is a stimulating resource for considering the manner in which race is foundational to architecture and urban geography, which is reflected, promoted, and challenged in cinematic representations.
Author : Laura Gail Pettler
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498711197
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases written by Laura Gail Pettler and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individuals who perpetrate murder sometimes pose or reposition victims, weapons, and evidence to make it look like events happened in a different way than what actually transpired. Until now, there has been scarce literature published on crime scene staging.Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases is the first book to look at this practice, p
Author : Angus McFadzean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154863X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Suburban Fantastic Cinema written by Angus McFadzean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982) and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset, chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order, thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values. This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre, such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995), and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in Stranger Things (2016–) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood films as the primary cinematic representation of late-twentieth-century American childhood.
Author : Lynn Spigel
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326960
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Welcome to the Dreamhouse written by Lynn Spigel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div
Author : Christine Berberich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317184726
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life written by Christine Berberich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish, memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are the specific qualities of experience that we can locate in the spaces in and through which we live? While the essays most often begin with the broadly literary - the memoir, the travelogue, the novel, poetry - the contributors approach the topic in diverse and innovative ways. The collection is divided into five sections: ’Peripheral Cultures’, dealing with dislocation and imagined landscapes'; ’Memory and Mobility’, concerning the road as the scene of trauma and movement; ’Suburbs and Estates’, contrasting American and English spaces; ’Literature and Place’, foregrounding the fluidity of the fictional and the real and the human and nonhuman; and finally, ’Sensescapes’, tracing the sensory response to landscape. Taken together, the essays interrogate important issues about how we live now and might live in the future.
Author : Evan Rapport
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149683125X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Damaged written by Evan Rapport and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research, and new interviews, Damaged provides fresh interpretations of race and American society during this period and illuminates the contemporary importance of that era. Evan Rapport outlines the ways in which punk developed out of dramatic changes to America’s cities and suburbs in the postwar era, especially with respect to race. The musical styles that led to punk included transformations to blues resources, experimental visions of the American musical past, and bold reworkings of the rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s, revealing a historically oriented approach to rock that is strikingly different from the common myths and conceptions about punk. Following these approaches, punk itself reflected new versions of older exchanges between the US and the UK, the changing environments of American suburbs and cities, and a shift from the expressions of older baby boomers to that of younger musicians belonging to Generation X. Throughout the book, Rapport also explores the discourses and contradictory narratives of punk history, which are often in direct conflict with the world that is captured in historical documents and revealed through musical analysis.
Author : Paul Loukides
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879726232
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Stars 3 written by Paul Loukides and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of five volumes of new scholarship on American movie conventions. The 19 essays explore cinematic representations of such material items as food, weapons, clothing, tools, technology, and art and literature. Not illustrated. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Tiffini Travis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Skinheads written by Tiffini Travis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fascinating examination of one of the most notorious countercultures in the United States. Skinheads: A Guide to An American Subculture is an insider's look at the history of skinheads in the United States, from their emergence from the U.S. hardcore underground in the 1980s in New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, to the current scene that thrives in many major metropolitan areas today. What makes this revelatory book so compelling is its one-of-a-kind view of skinhead culture from the inside out. Coauthor Perry Hardy is a skinhead, bass player for the band, The Templars, and veteran member of the American skinhead scene since the onset of the movement. Based on his experiences, plus interviews with dozens of skinheads of all kinds, Skinheads draws back the curtain to reveal a world that more often is simply a haven for those disaffected from society, rather than a subculture of hatred or violence.
Author : Gordon E. Slethaug
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773587861
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Hit the Road, Jack written by Gordon E. Slethaug and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All travelers know the seductive power of the open road and its suggestions of possibility, escape, renewal, and reinvention. Hit the Road, Jack is an interdisciplinary exploration of the significance of the road as reality and metaphor. Engaging with varied cultural mediums such as literature, reality television, philosophy, and political rhetoric, this collection delves deeply into the symbolic implications of the road. Insightful and accessible essays draw upon both classic "road" texts and films, while investigating themes of individual and national freedom, independence and mobility, and destiny. Referencing postmodern theory, gender and queer studies, as well as personal reminiscence and narrative research, Hit the Road, Jack considers the impact that identity - particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation - has on the way various journeys are taken. While literary depictions of the road have a long history, scholarship about the phenomenon is sparse. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the study of the road, bringing to light aspects of its iconic status in American culture. Contributors include Paul Attinello (Newcastle University), Stacilee Ford (University of Hong Kong), Eleanor Heginbotham (University of Maryland), Susan Kuyper (Des Moines Area Community College), Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong), Cotton Seiler (Dickinson University), Max J. Skidmore (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Gordon Slethaug (University of Southern Denmark), Michael Truscello (Mount Royal University), and Wendy Zierler (Hebrew Union College -Jewish Institute of Religion, New York).
Author : Michael Z. Newman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144652
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Indie written by Michael Z. Newman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By locating the American indie in the historical context of the Sundance-Miramax era, the author considers indie cinema as an alternative American film culture.
Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134292503
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book British Fiction of the 1990s written by Nick Bentley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared in British fiction during the 1990s, this book brings together leading academics in the field.
Author : Philip Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134723555
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book E.M. Forster written by Philip Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Author : Karl Whitney
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 147460742X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Hit Factories written by Karl Whitney and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, Karl Whitney embarks upon a journey to explore the industrial cities of British pop music. Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Coventry, Bristol: at various points in the past these cities have all had distinctive and highly identifiable sounds. But how did this happen? What circumstances enabled those sounds to emerge? How did each particular city - its history, its physical form, its accent - influence its music? How were these cities and their music different from each other? And what did they have in common? Hit Factories tells the story of British pop through the cities that shaped it, tracking down the places where music was performed, recorded and sold, and the people - the performers, entrepreneurs, songwriters, producers and fans - who made it all happen. From the venues and recording studios that occupied disused cinemas, churches and abandoned factories to the terraced houses and back rooms of pubs where bands first rehearsed, the terrain of British pop can be retraced with a map in hand and a head filled with music and its many myths.
Author : Ernest Mathijs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442615672
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps written by Ernest Mathijs and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few studies of Canadian cinema to date have engaged deeply with genre cinema and its connection to Canadian culture. Ernest Mathijs does just that in this volume, which traces the inception, production, and reception of Canada's internationally renowned horror film, Ginger Snaps (2000). This tongue-in-cheek Gothic film, which centres on two death-obsessed teenage sisters, draws a provocative connection between werewolf monstrosity and female adolescence and boasts a dedicated world-wide fan base. The first book-length study of this popular film, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps is based on the author's privileged access to most of its cast and crew and to its enthusiasts around the world. Examining themes of genre, feminism, identity, and adolescent belonging, Mathijs concludes that Ginger Snaps deserves to be recognized as part of the Canadian canon, and that it is a model example of the kind of crossover cult film that remains unjustly undervalued by film scholars.
