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“eric d smith”

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  • Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022

    Genre, History, Event

    by Eric D. Smith ...
    Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Unruly Voices

    Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Accessible, entertaining, anecdotal. A good introduction to issues in contemporary civics as well as a measured and thoughtful response to major themes and figures in cultural studies.Civility in politics is a subject throughout, and analyses of both Obama's rhetoric and the use of lowest-common-denominator insults in public debate will be well-timed going into the 2012 election campaignNot just ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Limits of Critique

    by Rita Felski ...
    "Felski frees critics from relying on critique as the gatekeeper of literary studies and offers a prescient guide to life in a postcritical world." — Los Angeles Review of BooksWhy must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines ... Read more

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  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    by Paisley Rekdal ...
    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Steven Spielberg and Philosophy

    We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book

    by Dean A. Kowalski ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    "This lively collection of essays on the ideas underpinning his films enriches and enlarges our understanding of Spielberg's complex body of work." —Joseph McBride, author of Steven Spielberg: A BiographyFew directors have had as powerful an influence on the film industry and the movie-going public as Steven Spielberg. Whatever the subject—dinosaurs, war, extra-terrestrials, slavery, the Holocaust ... Read more

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  • Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond

    by Robin Wood ...
    This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the Reagan era and into the twenty-first century. For the new edition, Robin Wood has written a substantial new preface that explores the interesting double context within which the book can be ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Literature after Feminism

    by Rita Felski ...
    Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature after Feminism is the first work to comprehensively rebut such caricatures, while also offering a clear-eyed assessment of the relative merits of various feminist ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

    Edited by Steven Connor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Who Would You Kill to Save the World?

    by Claire Colebrook ...
    Series series Provocations
    Winner of the 2024 Hugh J. Silverman Book PrizeWho Would You Kill to Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world—and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines “the world” as affluent Western society and “saving the world” as preventing us from becoming the othered ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature

    Edited by Brian McHale, Len Platt ...
    The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Aesthetic Resistance and Dis-interest

    That Which Will Not Allow Itself to Be Said

    by John Steppling ...
    The collusion of galleries, collectors and curators, following the model of studio film and network TV, has equated popularity with quality. The problem then is to recuperate something of the lost radical conscience of art and culture.Art is a recreation of our own psychic formation (mimesis) as well as being shaped by its ‘otherness’ and by history. All stories are crime stories, all stories are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD