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  • Mission Unaccomplished

    American War Films in the Twenty-First Century

    by Alan Nadel ...
    An analysis of how post-9/11 war movies changed from following soldiers on specific missions to chronicling war as a day-to-day occupation.In 2003, the United States began a war in Iraq without a mission. Instead of fighting to restore peace—the traditional objective of warfare—servicemembers faced the grim reality that there was no goal. Lacking even certainty as to who was the enemy, soldiers ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Television in Black-and-White America

    Race and National Identity

    by Alan Nadel ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Alan Nadel’s provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for America, but it did reinforce it as the norm—particularly during the Cold War years. Nadel now shows just how instrumental it was in constructing a narrow, conservative, and very white vision of America ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts

    The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

    Edited by Ann C. Hall, Professor Alan Nadel ...
    Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists. Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the chapters collected here examine their representation, dramatic function, and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production. As ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Men Who Knew Too Much

    Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock

    Edited by Susan M. Griffin, Alan Nadel ...
    Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in their techniques, these demanding and meticulous artists fiercely defended authorial and directorial ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Theatre of August Wilson

    by Professor Alan Nadel, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Patrick Lonergan ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Demographic Angst

    Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

    by Alan Nadel ...
    Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor.Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Containment Culture

    American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

    by Alan Nadel, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Men Who Knew Too Much

    Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock

    Edited by Susan M. Griffin, Alan Nadel ...
    Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of double vision. Masters of their arts, manipulators of their audiences, prescient and pathbreaking in their techniques, these demanding and meticulous artists fiercely defended authorial and directorial ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

    Tales from the Pentagon

    by Rosa Brooks ...
    “A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and...wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, war was a temporary state of affairs. Today, America’s wars are everywhere and forever: our enemies change constantly and rarely wear uniforms, and virtually anything can become a weapon. As war ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Theory of Literature

    by Paul H. Fry ...
    Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?Fry engages with the major themes and strands ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Breach of Trust

    How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country

    by Andrew J. Bacevich ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    This New York Times bestseller is a blistering critique of the gulf between America's soldiers and the society that sends them off to war.In Breach of Trust, Andrew J. Bacevich takes stock of the separation between Americans and their military, tracing its origins to the Vietnam era and exploring its pernicious implications: a nation with an abiding appetite for war waged at enormous expense by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Authentically Black

    by John McWhorter ...
    The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of BabelJohn McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the issue of race in America today. In Authentically Black McWhorter argues that although African-Americans stress hard work and initiative in private, they have assumed the mantle of victimhood in the eyes of the public and have ... Read more

    $14.99 USD