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Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and
this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work,
from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic
continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can
get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original essays
from an international group of scholars, this collection argues
that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood
caution and convention, against American hyper-consumerism and
imperial militarism, against narrative vapidity and spoon-fed
mediocrity, and against the brutalizing notion and cruel vision of
the "American Dream."
September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American
consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which
to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real
and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues
to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings
that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an
international body of scholars that examines America's recent
history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound
discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and
demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a
historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the
complex relations of a globalized world. Essays in Reframing 9/11
share a collective drive to encourage new and original approaches
for understanding the issues both within and beyond the official
political rhetoric of the events of the "The Global War on Terror"
and issues of national security. >
September 11th, 2001 remains a focal point of American
consciousness, a site demanding ongoing excavation, a site at which
to mark before and after "everything" changed. In ways both real
and intangible the entire sequence of events of that day continues
to resonate in an endlessly proliferating aftermath of meanings
that continue to evolve. Presenting a collection of analyses by an
international body of scholars that examines America's recent
history, this book focuses on popular culture as a profound
discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and
demystifies the day's events in order to contextualize them into a
historically grounded series of narratives that recognizes the
complex relations of a globalized world. Essays in Reframing 9/11
share a collective drive to encourage new and original approaches
for understanding the issues both within and beyond the official
political rhetoric of the events of the "The Global War on Terror"
and issues of national security. >
Terry Gilliam has been making movies for more than forty years, and
this volume analyzes a selection of his thrilling directorial work,
from his early films with Monty Python to The Imaginarium of Doctor
Parnussus (2009). The frenetic genius, auteur, and social critic
continues to create indelible images on screen--if, that is, he can
get funding for his next project. Featuring eleven original essays
from an international group of scholars, this collection argues
that when Gilliam makes a movie, he goes to war: against Hollywood
caution and convention, against American hyper-consumerism and
imperial militarism, against narrative vapidity and spoon-fed
mediocrity, and against the brutalizing notion and cruel vision of
the "American Dream."
In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short
Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have
assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by
literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics
argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American
writers is integral to the development of the short story in each
country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary
short story has attained. This collection provides original
analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as
some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted
to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matter,
themes, and approaches that both Russian and American short story
writers explored across borders and time. Stories by Gogol,
Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Krzhizhanovsky as well as short
stories by Washington Irving, Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Richard
Wright, Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates
populate this essential, multivalent collection. Perhaps more
important now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, these
essays will remind readers how much Russian and American culture
share, as well as the extent to which their respective literatures
are deeply intertwined.
Classroom on the Road: Designing, Teaching, and Theorizing
Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel explores real-world,
out-of-the-box examples of faculty-led student travel that
challenge the dominant paradigms of conventional tourism.
Contributors share teaching methods that can be adapted for a
variety of university travel scenarios and encourage students to be
responsible and thoughtful members of the global community who seek
out valuable experiences in other cultures to go beyond the
standard consumption of touristy cliches. Furthermore, this book
contributes to existing discourse about travel by going beyond
being "just" a tourist to become a person who impacts-and is
impacted by-other cultures and the commensurate politics of place.
Contributors discuss issues of cultural imperialism, economic
disparity, and responsible travel that can help protect unique
destinations from the homogenizing effects of global capitalism,
encouraging respectful and responsible travel.
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European Writers in Exile (Hardcover)
Robert C. Hauhart, Jeff Birkenstein; Contributions by Katherine Ashley, Katarzyna Balzewska, Rowena Clarke, …
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European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that
address the writers' universal existential dilemma, when viewed
through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I
write, and to whom? While we often understand the term "exile" to
refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home
country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be
defined so narrowly, and the contributors to this volume explore a
range of interesting and evolving definitions. Various countries in
Europe have long been both a refuge for people and writers from
many countries and a strife-torn region which has forced many to
flee within the continent or beyond it. The phrase "in exile"
involves writers moving across borders in multiple directions and
for multiple reasons, including for reasons of duress or personal
quest, and these themes are addressed and critiqued in these
essays. This volume naturally examines the cataclysmic and
near-universal exilic experiences relating to the world wars,
including essays on Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Hannah Arendt
and Leo Strauss. Additionally, essays address the unique early
twentieth-century experiences of Emile Zola, Franz Kafka, Joseph
Conrad, and James Joyce. More contemporary essay subjects include
Milan Kundera, Norman Manea, Eva Hoffman, Caryl Phillips, and W. G.
Sebald. This collection of transnational, globalized European
literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our
contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural,
historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. How does
literary production in an increasingly globalized world-when seen
from exile-affect a view back towards a country or region left
behind? Or, conversely, how does exile push a writer to look
outward to new (trans-)nationalized space(s)? These and other
questions are important to investigate. Taken in sum, European
Writers in Exile offers an academically rigorous, important, and
cohesive volume.
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