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  • Television in Black-and-White America

    Race and National Identity

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $28.99 USD Ahora $23.79 USD

  • Mission Unaccomplished

    American War Films in the Twenty-First Century

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts

    The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • The Theatre of August Wilson

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Demographic Angst

    Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.49 USD

  • The Men Who Knew Too Much

    Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Containment Culture

    American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Men Who Knew Too Much

    Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD