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Book Synopsis Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling by : Jeffry John Stein
Download or read book Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling written by Jeffry John Stein and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about what movies do for us. It is about how movies exhibit the contradictions, truths, and fantasies surrounding our bedrock American beliefs in things held sacred, including, in this case, our creed of family. It is about why we again and again attend the dark universal tabernacles in which these sermons are offered. The depth of analysis offered here will also bring new insights to those concerned with parenting issues, self understanding, and media consciousness - all increasingly relevant areas of concern in contemporary life. And, for those interested in telling stories that will truly "move" the rest of us, this book will serve as a secret doorway to the inner sanctum of human characters responding to the places and times of their lives. Finally, this book will bring revelation and liberation to reader's lives by showing them how to look through movies into themselves as they have never done before. In the specific examples of archetypal life journeys illuminated through these films, they will experience empathy with the ineffability of their existence. And, in transubstantiating with these movie characters amidst history, culture, and family, they will journey through their own conundrums in arcs that bring them moments of at-one-ment.
Book Synopsis Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling by : Jeffry John Stein
Download or read book Life, Myth, and the American Family Unreeling written by Jeffry John Stein and published by Upublish.Com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about what movies do for us. It is about how movies exhibit the contradictions, truths, and fantasies surrounding our bedrock American beliefs in things held sacred, including, in this case, our creed of family. It is about why we again and again attend the dark universal tabernacles in which these sermons are offered. The depth of analysis offered here will also bring new insights to those concerned with parenting issues, self understanding, and media consciousness - all increasingly relevant areas of concern in contemporary life. And, for those interested in telling stories that will truly "move" the rest of us, this book will serve as a secret doorway to the inner sanctum of human characters responding to the places and times of their lives. Finally, this book will bring revelation and liberation to reader's lives by showing them how to look through movies into themselves as they have never done before. In the specific examples of archetypal life journeys illuminated through these films, they will experience empathy with the ineffability of their existence. And, in transubstantiating with these movie characters amidst history, culture, and family, they will journey through their own conundrums in arcs that bring them moments of at-one-ment.
Book Synopsis The Way We Never Were by : Stephanie Coontz
Download or read book The Way We Never Were written by Stephanie Coontz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American family Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life. The 1950s do not present a workable model of how to conduct our personal lives today, Coontz argues, and neither does any other era from our cultural past. This revised edition includes a new introduction and epilogue, exploring how the clash between growing gender equality and rising economic inequality is reshaping family life, marriage, and male-female relationships in our modern era. More relevant than ever, The Way We Never Were is a potent corrective to dangerous nostalgia for an American tradition that never really existed.
Book Synopsis An American Family Myth by : Norine G. Johnson
Download or read book An American Family Myth written by Norine G. Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like the widows of other American tragedies, Verna must discover the strength to survive and provide for her family. An American family myth begins in 1916 ... Psychologist Norine Johnson brings her knowledge of post-traumatic stress and family to this novel ..."--Jacket back.
Book Synopsis The Way We Never Were by : Stephanie Coontz
Download or read book The Way We Never Were written by Stephanie Coontz and published by . This book was released on 1994-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "a man's home was his castle" to "traditional families never asked for a handout", this provocative book explodes cherished illusions about the last two centuries of American family life to expose the falseness, sentimentality, and self-righteousness of our accepted familial morays.
Book Synopsis Dismantling the Myth of the American Family by : Robin Vella Riehl
Download or read book Dismantling the Myth of the American Family written by Robin Vella Riehl and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hollowness of American Myths in Sam Shepard ́s "Buried Child" by : Simone Leisentritt
Download or read book The Hollowness of American Myths in Sam Shepard ́s "Buried Child" written by Simone Leisentritt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Englisches Seminar), course: PS II Literary Studies: Family Scenes: The American Family on Stage, language: English, abstract: “This study holds that the coherence of the [American] nation owes much to the potency of its communal ‘stories’, those myths given prominence in cultural consciousness.” (Wade 3). According to Wade, the American culture is based on certain myths, on complex systems of attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic for a specific society or group (cf. Collins Dictionary 1077). The history of the nation and the experience of westward expansion resulted in certain myths that are still present in the American imagination (cf. Companion Drama 286). U.S. playwright Sam Shepard is known for his interest in national myths, which he defines as mysteries that speak to the emotions and feelings of people, and in the prominence of such myths in modern society (cf. Graham 112). Thus, Shepard sees his plays as tools for cultural conversation by which he questions American myths (cf. Companion Drama 291). One of Shepard ́s most popular plays is the family drama Buried Child, which unfolds the dark secret of a family living in a farm house in Midwestern Illinois (cf. BC ). This term paper will focus on two myths which are dominant in Buried Child: The myth of the generic middle-class family in the U.S. and the myth of the American Midwest. How does Sam Shepard reveal these myths in his family drama, and how does he demonstrate their hollowness? The first chapter will be based on the myth of the generic American family, on its definition, its appearance in the play, and on the question how this myth is criticized. The second chapter will focus on the myth of the American Midwest in the same line.
Book Synopsis Subverting the Myth of the American Family by : Joletta F. Nebel
Download or read book Subverting the Myth of the American Family written by Joletta F. Nebel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A World Of Their Own Making by : John Gillis
Download or read book A World Of Their Own Making written by John Gillis and published by . This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World of Their Own Making questions our idealized notion of "The Family," a mind-set in which myth and symbol still hold sway. As the families we live with become more fragile, the symbolic families we live by become more powerful. Yet it is only by accepting the notion that our rituals, myths, and images must be open to perpetual revision that we can satisfy our human needs and changing circumstances. Our families are worlds of our own making.
Book Synopsis The American Family by : David Peterson del Mar
Download or read book The American Family written by David Peterson del Mar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.
Book Synopsis Embattled Paradise by : Arlene S. Skolnick
Download or read book Embattled Paradise written by Arlene S. Skolnick and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skolnick offers a lucid and compassionate appraisal of the crisis of the American family, arguing that while the great economic and cultural transformations of the past generation are irreversible, they need not irreparably undermine our most precious family values.
Download or read book Family Myths written by Joyce Block and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We have all, at one time or another, felt locked into a particular pattern of relating to others despite our conscious wish to do otherwise, and often we have wondered how, having grown up in the same family, siblings could turn out so very differently. In Family Myths, Joyce Block explores how and why our families unconsciously construct identities for us which then shape our images of who we are and what we are destined to become." "The family Brain and the family Comedian, the Wild Child and the Sensitive Plant, the Mama's Boy and the Prodigal Son are but a few obvious examples of the characters that families create and then use to enact a particular family drama. But the curtain doesn't fall when we leave home; on the contrary, the performance is a continuous one, for we seek out and find new partners with whom we can live out our myths." "Basing her analysis on her clinical experience with individuals and families, Dr. Block challenges the notion that we are simply passive victims of our childhood. Without assigning blame, she exposes the personal investment we have in sustaining these false identities, even as she provides the encouragement to let go of them." "These personal myths need not continue to limit our potential and influence relationships with our parents, mates, children, and friends. Family Myths is an invaluable guide to breaking the spell that keeps us frozen in time and reviving the real self that is hibernating within."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Past, Present, and Personal by : John Demos
Download or read book Past, Present, and Personal written by John Demos and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the changing nature of the American family including issues of fatherhood, child abuse, adolescence, and old age.
Book Synopsis Domestic Revolutions by : Steven Mintz
Download or read book Domestic Revolutions written by Steven Mintz and published by New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the ways the American family has adapted to change over the past three hundred years, and discusses the families of American Indians, slaves, and immigrants.
Book Synopsis The Fall of the Great Modern American Family Myth in Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", "A Lie of the Mind", "Fool for Love", and "True West" by : Lynn Walker Shields
Download or read book The Fall of the Great Modern American Family Myth in Sam Shepard's "Buried Child", "A Lie of the Mind", "Fool for Love", and "True West" written by Lynn Walker Shields and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lord of the World by : Robert Hugh Benson
Download or read book Lord of the World written by Robert Hugh Benson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Who Killed the American Family? by : Phyllis Schlafly
Download or read book Who Killed the American Family? written by Phyllis Schlafly and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American family used to be the fundamental institution of our stable, liberty-loving, and very successful society. It is the essential building block of a free society with limited government. In the last hundred years, the American family has been attacked, debased, maligned, slandered, and vilified by every facet of society. Who Killed the American Family explains how changes in the law, in court decisions, in the culture, in education, and in entertainment have eroded the once-precious institution. Any one of these factors would not have been enough to impact our families, but together they added up to a mighty force. Veteran conservative activist and conservative thought leader Phyllis Schlafly not only exposes the tactical charge the Left has implemented, but she offers hope and a plan for stopping anti-marriage incentives and how to restore in our culture the sacred nature of the family unit.
