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  • Starring Madame Modjeska

    On Tour in Poland and America

    by Beth Holmgren ...
    The "important . . . meticulously researched" prize-winning biography of the pre-eminent Polish star of the nineteenth century global stage (CosmopolinReview.com).In reintroducing "a little-remembered actress to a new American audience" biographer Beth Holgram delivers a revelatory portrait of Helena Modjeska—from unparalleled European success to her reign as the most acclaimed, and most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jewish Inn in Polish Culture

    Between Practice and Phantasm

    by Judith Kalik, Benjamin Vogel, Beth Holmgren, Glenn Dynner, Eliza Rose, Alexander Lindskog, Iwona Kurz, Magdalena Zatorska, Sławomir Sikora ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    The Jewish inn (żydowska karczma) was a central pillar of economic and social life in Polish lands before the Second World War. While its primary role was to provide hospitality, it also functioned as a multifaceted hub for business, leisure, and religious festivities, reflecting its vital role in the community.In The Jewish Inn: Between Practice and Phantasm, editors Halina Goldberg and Bożena ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Kazaaam! Splat! Ploof!

    The American Impact on European Popular Culture since 1945

    by Gordana Crnkovic, Steinar Bryn, B Lee Cooper, Laura E. Cooper, Gordana P. Crnkovic, Marianne Debouzy, Herbert J. Eagle, C Anthony Giffard, Giulia Guarnieri, Beth Holmgren, Beverly James, Uta G. Poiger, Sabrina P. Ramet, Rodney Stark ...
    Observing European debates about EuroDisney, McDonald's, Hollywood films and television programs, and other vehicles of alleged 'Americanization,' one might imagine that Europe was in serious risk of losing its distinct cultural identity in the melting pot of American pop culture. The loaded charge of 'kitsch' is a central aspect of the debate, with Disney stories, for example, branded as ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Polish Cinema Today

    A Bold New Era in Film

    by Helena Goscilo, Beth Holmgren ...
    A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleStructured according to key themes, Polish Cinema Today analyzes the remarkable innovations in Polish cinema emerging a decade after the 1989 dissolution of the Soviet bloc, once its film industry had evolved from a socialist state enterprise into a much more accessible system of film production, with growing expertise in distribution and marketing. ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Americans Experience Russia

    Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present

    Edited by Choi Chatterjee, Beth Holmgren ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can be found, none has yet examined how Americans’ encounters with Russian/Soviet society shaped their ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures

    From the Bad to the Blasphemous

    Edited by Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    Investigating the genesis of the prosecuted "crimes" and implied sins of the female performing group Pussy Riot,the most famous Russian feminist collective to date, the essays in Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to Blasphemous examine what constitutes bad social and political behavior for women in Russia, Poland, and the Balkans, and how and to what ... Read more

    $61.99 USD