Austria and America
| Author | : Joshua Parker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Austria |
| ISBN | : 9783643958129 |
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Austria and America: 20th-Century Cross-Cultural Encounters
| Author | : Joshua Parker |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Austria |
| ISBN | : 3643908121 |
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Through literature, film, diplomatic relations, and academic exchanges, this volume examines key historical points in Austrian-American relations of the past century, pondering the roots of how and why "austrianness" was adapted to American culture, and how America's cultural lens focused on the two countries' exchanges. From Freud's early reception, to FDR's policy toward Austrian refugees in the Pacific, and from film adaptations to film-writing, literature and Freudianism during the McCarthy era, it reviews encounters between Austria and the United States, between Austrians and Americans, between each's images of the other, and the lives of those caught in between. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 15) [Subject: Politics, American Studies, Austrian Studies, Sociology]
Austria and America
| Author | : Joshua Parker |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3643905769 |
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While the end of the US's civil war marked a boom in US tourism in Europe, Austria's own civil war in 1934 both curtailed American tourism in Austria and marked a small, but important, wave of Austrian emigration to the US. The essays in this volume explore the ways Austrian-born immigrants in those years defined their own identities as American citizens; how they interpreted, performed, and profited from "American" modernity at home; and how their work - as immigrating authors, film makers, and musicians - impacted mainstream culture in the US, illuminating often overlooked connections, not only between Austria and America, but also between Austrians and Americans. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 14) [Subject: Social History, U.S. Studies, Austrian Studies, Migration Studies]
US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions
| Author | : Saskia Fürst |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3643909314 |
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This collection takes stock of current discourses in American studies on the political valence of American utopias, be they as religious diasporas or as socialist experiments, fantastic or realist, successful or failed. The included essays take into account the spatiality of utopias (especially in their visionary scope), analyze currents in literary utopias, and look at dystopian visions in literature. This volume strives to keep alive the long tradition of writers, artists, and scholars who warned against imminent disasters and envisioned ways to counter such ruinous bearings. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 17) [Subject: Sociology, Literary Studies]
Pioneer African American Educators in Washington, D.C.: Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes
| Author | : Marina Bacher |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : African American civic leaders |
| ISBN | : 3643909454 |
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Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Eva B. Dykes shaped the educational landscape in Washington, D.C., in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three pioneer educators serve as examples to describe the societal circles they were involved in. The many facets of their educational achievements are analyzed in the context of the educational elite of Washington. Cooper, Terrell, and Dykes not only had to live with race discrimination but also with gender discrimination. Unpublished archive material is used to illustrate how they interacted and how they treated each other. Marina Bacher is a scholar, author, and educator. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 18) [Subject: Education, Sociology, History]
Space Oddities
| Author | : Stefan L. Brandt |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2018-03-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3643507976 |
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"Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City" approaches a space (and place) central to the American imagination-the city. In particular, this volume discusses the paradoxes of American cities and American urban life. In this way, the book critically engages with the paradoxes of the American identity, embodied by cultural practices in, and cultural representations of, urban life in the United States. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 16) [Subject: Sociology, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies]
Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts
| Author | : Martin Kindermann |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2020-10-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030552691 |
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Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the “spatial turn,” contributors from disciplines ranging from geography and history to literary and media studies theorize narrative constructions of the city and cities, and analyze relevant examples from a variety of discourses, media, and cities. Subdivided into six sections, the book explores the interactions of city and text—as well as other media—and the conflicting narratives that arise in these interactions. Offering case studies that discuss specific aspects of the narrative construction of Berlin and London, the text also considers narratives of urban discontinuity and their theoretical implications. Ultimately, this volume captures the narratological, artistic, material, social, and performative possibilities inherent in spatial representations of the city.
Contemporary Quality TV
| Author | : Saskia M. Fürst |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2021-06-17 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3643911998 |
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Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics.
Beauty Ideals, Appearances, and Body Images in Disney’s Feature Films
| Author | : Lisa Buchegger |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3643912390 |
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Disney films reflect the current values and beliefs of society and have the power to influence their audiences in the perception of what is beautiful, and whether appearance does or does not matter. This book gives an overview of beauty ideals, body images, and appearances in Disney’s feature films. Seven main films are chosen for this analysis to allow for a comparison across time: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937), Cinderella (1950), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Frozen (2013). The survey determines to what extent Disney films make use of the beauty-goodness stereotype – the equation of appearance and personality. The characters are analyzed as to which bodily features they exhibit, and how these features are in tune with dominant beauty discourses during the times the films were made. Furthermore, the narratives are examined to find out how they topics ‘beauty’ and ‘appearance’ are rendered within them, demonstrating that earlier films frequently rely on traditional and stereotypical depictions and notions of beauty, whereas more recent productions represent more ambiguity and diversity.
Literatures of Urban Possibility
| Author | : Markku Salmela |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2021-05-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030709094 |
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This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or communities. The volume combines reflections on urban possibility from a range of geographical and cultural contexts—in addition to the English-speaking world, individual chapters analyse possible cities and possible urban lives in Turkey, Israel, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden. Moreover, by engaging with issues such as city planning, mass housing, gentrification, informal settlements and translocal identities, the book shows imaginative literature at work outlining what possibility means in cities.
