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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “patrick s lawrence”
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  • Out of the Gutters

    Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics

    Edited by Patrick S. Lawrence, Jorge J. Santos Jr. ...
    Series series World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
    Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today’s book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today’s controversies different is the content of the alleged obscenity. Instead of targeting sex as such, censors now focus on ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Obscene Gestures

    Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

    by Patrick S. Lawrence ...
    Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Sense of Regard

    Essays on Poetry and Race

    by Martha Collins, Tony Hoagland, Randall Horton, Major Jackson, Timothy Liu, Kazim Ali, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Lucy Biederman, Jaswinder Bolina, Rafael Campo, Ken Chen, Travis Hedge Coke, Joanna Penn Cooper, Adebe DeRango-Adem, Paula Hayes, Garrett Hongo, Ailish Hopper, Leigh Johnson, Patrick S. Lawrence, Matthew Lippman, Charles H. Lynch, Philip Metres, Mihaela Moscaliuc, David Mura, Sara Marie Ortiz, Jason Schneiderman, Ravi Shankar, Tess Taylor, Timothy Leyrson, Dr. Gerald Maa, Camille T. Dungy ...
    A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Approaches to American Cultural Studies

    Edited by Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper ...
    Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts.Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sex Radical Cinema

    by Carol Siegel ...
    In this provocative study of cinematic and televisual representations of "sex radicalism," Carol Siegel explores how representations of sexually explicit content on film have shaped American cultural visions of sex and sexual politics in the 21st century. Siegel distinguishes between a liberal approach to visual representations, which has over-emphasized normative equal opportunity while ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Persistence of Whiteness

    Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

    Edited by Daniel Bernardi ...
    The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • After the Program Era

    The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University

    Edited by Loren Glass ...
    Series series New American Canon
    The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl’s The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English department in the United States housed some version of a creative writing program by the time of its publication, literary scholars had not previously considered that this institutional phenomenon was historically significant. McGurl’s groundbreaking ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives

    Composing Pasts and Futures

    by Jean Bessette ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    Winner, 2018 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book AwardGrassroots historiography has been essential in shaping American sexual identities in the twentieth century. Retroactivism in the Lesbian Archives examines how lesbian collectives have employed “retroactivist” rhetorics to propel change in present identification and politics. By appropriating and composing versions of the past, these ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Program Era

    Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

    by Mark McGurl ...
    In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Art of Cruelty

    A Reckoning

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles TimesWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

    The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out

    by Sean P. Griffin ...
    The first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay communityFrom its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But the Walt Disney Company has also had a long and complex relationship to the gay and lesbian community that is only now ... Read more

    $26.99 USD