The unembarrassed muse : the popular arts in America
Author | : R. B. Nye |
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Release | : 1972 |
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Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Russel Blaine Nye |
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Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : Russel Blaine Nye |
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Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Russell Nye |
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Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Jenn Brandt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501320580 |
The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.
Author | : Robert G. Athearn |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
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Briefly describes life in the West, and discusses the ephemeral nature of the region, western towns, the tourist industry, agriculture, fiction, and the ecology movement.
Author | : Robert W. Rydell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226732347 |
When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach of American mass culture extends into every corner of the globe. Most believe this is a twentieth-century phenomenon, but here Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes prove that its roots are far deeper. Buffalo Bill in Bologna reveals that the process of globalizing American mass culture began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, by the end of World War I, the United States already boasted an advanced network of culture industries that served to promote American values. Rydell and Kroes narrate how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies developed after the Civil War—tools central to hastening the reconstruction of the country—actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad. As symbols of America's version of the "good life," cultural products became a primary means for people around the world, especially in Europe, to reimagine both America and themselves in the context of America's growing global sphere of influence. Paying special attention to the role of the world's fairs, the exporting of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show to Europe, the release of The Birth of a Nation, and Woodrow Wilson's creation of the Committee on Public Information, Rydell and Kroes offer an absorbing tour through America's cultural expansion at the turn of the century. Buffalo Bill in Bologna is thus a tour de force that recasts what has been popularly understood about this period of American and global history.
Author | : David L. Minter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521467490 |
This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the "Southern Renaissance" of the 1930s.
Author | : John G. Cawelti |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226098672 |
A study of the popular plot formulas, and chief practitioners, of the detective and crime story, western, and social melodrama, assessing their artistic and cultural significance.
Author | : Jean-Paul Gabilliet |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2013-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1628469994 |
Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form. A thorough introduction by translators and comics scholars Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen brings the book up to date with explorations of the latest innovations, particularly the graphic novel. The book is organized into three sections: a concise history of the evolution of the comic book form in America; an overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, detailing specific controversies such as the creation of the Comics Code in the mid-1950s; and the problematic legitimization of the form that has occurred recently within the academy and in popular discourse. Viewing comic books from a variety of theoretical lenses, Gabilliet shows how seemingly disparate issues—creation, production, and reception—are in fact connected in ways that are not necessarily true of other art forms. Analyzing examples from a variety of genres, this book provides a thorough landmark overview of American comic books that sheds new light on this versatile art form.