Mid-20th-century Culture – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 2

Douglas Coupland's Literature and Art

The first collection of scholarly essays about major works across fiction, non-fiction, and visual art by cult writer and artist Douglas Coupland, this book looks at Coupland's work and its interest in to…

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Julia Tischler
Cultivating Race

Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustic…

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Kirk Ellis
They Kill People

A deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns.On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and Bonnie…

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David Cottis
How Stage Playwrights Saved the British Cinema, 1930-1956

Examines the film careers and work of British playwrights who worked as screenwriters between 1930-1956.During the period between the 1927 Cinematograph Films Act and the 'new drama' of the 1950s, many Br…

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Daniel Rachel
Don't Look Back in Anger

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music…

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Sabur& Yoshida,
Diary of a Farmer at the Foot of Mt. Kanpū

On March 13, 1935, in a small village on the craggy Oga Peninsula in northeastern Japan, an industrious vegetable farmer named Yoshida Saburō began writing a one-year chronicle of his life and community, …

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Henry Carroll
The 1980s

Discover the 1980s afresh with this decade-defining book, evocatively illustrated and expertly curated by one of our most popular writers on visual culture.

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Mark Hlavacik
Willing Warriors

"How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to address complaints about its libraries. Like so many …

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American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1940s

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! At long last,…

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Kevin L Ferguson, Melissa Lenos
Generation X

"This all-in-one resource provides an illuminating overview of Generation X and its enduring impact on American life in such realms as music, television and film, literature, advertising, and societa…

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Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister
The Bonkbuster

What were women reading in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s? This book presents a major study of the "bonkbuster," an incredibly popular genre of women's fiction in the late 20th century.The bonkbuste…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

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Paul Mcewan
Cinema's Original Sin

How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.

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It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps, Expanded Edition

Expanded edition covering the Adventure Magazine genre of Cold-War masculinity including new material wartime xenophobic American magazine articles and advertisements.

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Alison Fields
Lone Star

A deft history and analysis of John Sayles' 1996 cinematic masterpiece. Alison Fields places Lone Star in a western film framework and emphasizes Lone Star's ability to highlight the conflicts between soc…

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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a crit…

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Tabassum Ruhi Khan
Downton Abbey

This book examines Downton Abbey's dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and privilege in narrative structuring and to understand audiences' uncritical acceptance of …

lieferbar ab 27.11.2025.

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