Author: Marcus Klein
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299143046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Marcus Klein makes major contributions to American studies, literary criticism, and intellectual and social history. In a perfectly crystalline and crystallized way, he brilliantly exhibits how the American imagination was rapidly, unexpectedly, and utterly transformed as we made for the twentieth century. Klein demonstrates how immigration, popular literature, the rise of ethnicity, new psychological fears, and old fables mixed together to make modern America. No one has seen the underside of the American imagination so clearly and originally; but once we are allowed to see what Klein does, our understanding of our history and its vicissitudes is changed for good."--Jay Martin, University of Southern California
Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes
Author: Marcus Klein
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299143046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Marcus Klein makes major contributions to American studies, literary criticism, and intellectual and social history. In a perfectly crystalline and crystallized way, he brilliantly exhibits how the American imagination was rapidly, unexpectedly, and utterly transformed as we made for the twentieth century. Klein demonstrates how immigration, popular literature, the rise of ethnicity, new psychological fears, and old fables mixed together to make modern America. No one has seen the underside of the American imagination so clearly and originally; but once we are allowed to see what Klein does, our understanding of our history and its vicissitudes is changed for good."--Jay Martin, University of Southern California
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299143046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Marcus Klein makes major contributions to American studies, literary criticism, and intellectual and social history. In a perfectly crystalline and crystallized way, he brilliantly exhibits how the American imagination was rapidly, unexpectedly, and utterly transformed as we made for the twentieth century. Klein demonstrates how immigration, popular literature, the rise of ethnicity, new psychological fears, and old fables mixed together to make modern America. No one has seen the underside of the American imagination so clearly and originally; but once we are allowed to see what Klein does, our understanding of our history and its vicissitudes is changed for good."--Jay Martin, University of Southern California
Street Scenes
Author: Esther Romeyn
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816645213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816645213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Getting at the Author
Author: Barbara Hochman
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558497641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
How typography conveys and affects meaning from the Bible to comic books
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558497641
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
How typography conveys and affects meaning from the Bible to comic books
The Web of Iniquity
Author: Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Post-Civil War detective fiction, written mostly by women, considered in relation to other forms of sentimental and domestic fiction.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Post-Civil War detective fiction, written mostly by women, considered in relation to other forms of sentimental and domestic fiction.
The Western
Author: Jeffrey M. Wallmann
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724235
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Wallmann's sweep through the western is a careful, incisive, and blessedly non-theoretical examination of the implications of the western from the beginning to the present, taking the reader deep into the heart of the subject and offering original and perceptive theories of how the western reflects the evolution of America."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724235
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Wallmann's sweep through the western is a careful, incisive, and blessedly non-theoretical examination of the implications of the western from the beginning to the present, taking the reader deep into the heart of the subject and offering original and perceptive theories of how the western reflects the evolution of America."--BOOK JACKET.
Reading the West
Author: Michael Kowalewski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521565592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521565592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The American West of myth and legend has always exerted a strong hold on the popular imagination, and the essays in Reading the West examine some of the basis of that fascination. Reading the West, first published in 1996, is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars and critics on the literature of the American West in the last two centuries. It showcases new ways of reading and understanding western writing. Arguing for the importance of 'place' in literature, these essays explore what makes representative literary works 'western'. They also explore the multicultural and ecological dimensions of western writing. This volume helps enrich our understanding of a distinguished body of literary work which has sometimes been unjustly ignored. It deals not only with literature but with the changing conception of the West in the American imagination.
The Western
Author: David Lusted
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317874919
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike. Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading. Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse, and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station, Pursued and Ulzana's Raid.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317874919
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has been understood in film criticism. Until the 1980s, more Westerns were made than any other type of film. For fifty of those years, the genre was central to Hollywood's popularity and profitability. The Western explores the reasons for its success and its latter-day decline among film-makers and audiences alike. Part I charts the history of the Western film and its role in film studies. Part II traces the origins of the Western in nineteenth-century America, and in its literary, theatrical and visual imagining. This sets the scene to explore the many evolving forms in successive chapters on early silent Westerns, the series Western, the epic, the romance, the dystopian, the elegiac and, finally, the revisionist Western. The Western concludes with an extensive bibliography, filmography and select further reading. Over 200 Westerns are discussed, among them close accounts of classics such as Duel in the Sun, The Wild Bunch and Unforgiven, formative titles like John Ford's epic The Iron Horse, and early cowboy star William S. Hart's The Silent One together with less familiar titles that deserve wider recognition, including Comanche Station, Pursued and Ulzana's Raid.
The Six-gun Mystique Sequel
Author: John G. Cawelti
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
To this structural analysis he adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
To this structural analysis he adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history."--BOOK JACKET.
The Invention of the Western Film
Author: Scott Simmon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555814
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521555814
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Table of contents
The Annotated Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0804168881
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library. A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep helped to define a genre. Today it remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. This comprehensive, annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel, bringing the gritty and seductive world of Chandler's iconic private eye Philip Marlowe to life. The Annotated Big Sleep solidifies the novel’s position as one of the great works of American fiction and will surprise and enthrall Chandler’s biggest fans. Including: -Personal letters and source texts -The historical context of Chandler’s Los Angeles, including maps and images -Film stills and art from the early pulps -An analysis of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the novel
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0804168881
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library. A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep helped to define a genre. Today it remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. This comprehensive, annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel, bringing the gritty and seductive world of Chandler's iconic private eye Philip Marlowe to life. The Annotated Big Sleep solidifies the novel’s position as one of the great works of American fiction and will surprise and enthrall Chandler’s biggest fans. Including: -Personal letters and source texts -The historical context of Chandler’s Los Angeles, including maps and images -Film stills and art from the early pulps -An analysis of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the novel