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Don DeLillo after the Millennium - Currents and Currencies (Hardcover): Jacqueline A. Zubeck Don DeLillo after the Millennium - Currents and Currencies (Hardcover)
Jacqueline A. Zubeck; Contributions by Karim Daanoune, Scott Dill, Graley Herren, Jesse Kavadlo, …
R3,943 R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 Save R1,168 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author's work published in the 21st century: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn't DeLillo tackle? Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence, global warming and cryogenics, Don DeLillo continues to ponder the significance of present cultural currents and to anticipate the waves of the future. Performance art and ethics, drama and euthanasia, space studies and the constrictions of time, DeLillo perspicaciously reads our culture, giving voice to the rhythms of our vernacular and diction. Rich and resonant, his work is so multifaceted in its attention that it accommodates a wide variety of critical approaches while its fine and filigreed prose commends him to a poetic appreciation as well. Don DeLillo after the Millennium brings together an international cast of scholars who examine DeLillo's work from many critical perspectives, exploring the astonishing output of an author who continues to tell our stories and show us ourselves.

Don DeLillo after the Millennium - Currents and Currencies (Paperback): Jacqueline A. Zubeck Don DeLillo after the Millennium - Currents and Currencies (Paperback)
Jacqueline A. Zubeck; Contributions by Karim Daanoune, Scott Dill, Graley Herren, Jesse Kavadlo, …
R1,104 Discovery Miles 11 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author's work published in the 21st century: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn't DeLillo tackle? Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence, global warming and cryogenics, Don DeLillo continues to ponder the significance of present cultural currents and to anticipate the waves of the future. Performance art and ethics, drama and euthanasia, space studies and the constrictions of time, DeLillo perspicaciously reads our culture, giving voice to the rhythms of our vernacular and diction. Rich and resonant, his work is so multifaceted in its attention that it accommodates a wide variety of critical approaches while its fine and filigreed prose commends him to a poetic appreciation as well. Don DeLillo After the Millennium brings together an international cast of scholars who examine DeLillo's work from many critical perspectives, exploring the astonishing output of an author who continues to tell our stories and show us ourselves.

Excavating Indiana Jones - Essays on the Films and Franchise (Paperback): Randy Laist Excavating Indiana Jones - Essays on the Films and Franchise (Paperback)
Randy Laist
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the rousing sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world religions, Indiana Jones--archeologist, adventurer, and ophidiophobe--has become one of the most recognizable heroes of the big screen. Since his debut in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones has gone on to anchor several sequels, and a fifth film is currently in development. At the same time, the character has spilled out into multiple multimedia manifestations and has become a familiar icon within the collective cultural imagination. Despite the longevity and popularity of the Indiana Jones franchise, however, it has rarely been the focus of sustained criticism. In Excavating Indiana Jones, a collection of international scholars analyzes Indiana Jones tales from a variety of perspectives, examining the films' representation of history, cultural politics, and identity, and also tracing the adaptation of the franchise into comic books, video games, and theme park attractions.

Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels (Hardcover, New edition): Randy Laist Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels (Hardcover, New edition)
Randy Laist
R2,167 Discovery Miles 21 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

More than any other major American author, Don DeLillo has examined the manner in which contemporary American consciousness has been shaped by the historically unique incursion into daily life of information, military, and consumer technologies. In DeLillo's fictions, technological apparatuses are not merely set-pieces in the characters' environments, nor merely tools to move the plot along, they are sites of mystery and magic, whirlpools of space-time, and convex mirrors of identity. Television sets, filmic images, automobiles, airplanes, telephones, computers, and nuclear bombs are not simply objects in the world for DeLillo's characters; they are psychological phenomena that shape the possibilities for action, influence the nature of perception, and incorporate themselves into the fabric of memory and identity. DeLillo is a phenomenologist of the contemporary technoscape and an ecologist of our new kind of natural habitat. Through a close reading of four DeLillo novels, Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels examines the variety of modes in which DeLillo's fictions illustrate the technologically mediated confluence of his human subjects and the field of cultural objects in which they discover themselves. The model of interactionism between human beings and technological instruments that is implicit in DeLillo's writing suggests significant applications both to the study of other contemporary novelists as well as to contemporary cultural studies.

The Twin Towers in Film - A Cinematic History of New York's World Trade Center (Paperback): Randy Laist The Twin Towers in Film - A Cinematic History of New York's World Trade Center (Paperback)
Randy Laist
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For thirty years, the twin towers of the World Trade Center soared above the New York City skyline, eventually becoming one of the most conspicuous symbolic structures in the world. They appeared in hundreds of films, from Godspell and Death Wish to Trading Places, Ghostbusters and The Usual Suspects. The politicians, architects and engineers who developed the towers sought to imbue them with a powerful visual presence. The resulting buildings provided filmmakers with imposing set pieces capable of conveying a range of moods and associations, from the sublime and triumphal to the sinister and paranoid.While they stood, they captured the imagination of the world with their enigmatic symbolism. In their dramatic destruction, they became icons of a history that is still being written. Here viewed in the context of popular cinema, the twin towers are emblematic of how architecture, film and narrative interact to express cultural aspirations and anxieties.

Looking for Lost - Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (Paperback): Randy Laist Looking for Lost - Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (Paperback)
Randy Laist
R974 R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Save R254 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lost has received widespread acclaim as one of the most innovative, intelligent, and influential dramatic series in television history. Central to Lost's success has been its capacity to evoke audience's interpretations of its mysteries, undiminished even with the series' definitive conclusion. This collection of fifteen essays by critics, academics, and philosophers examines the complete series from a diverse but interconnected array of perspectives. Complementary and occasionally conflicting interpretations of the show's major themes are presented, including the role of time, fate and determinism, masculinity, parenthood and the threat of environmental apocalypse.

UDL University - Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum (Paperback): Randy Laist, Nicole Brewer, Dana... UDL University - Designing for Variability Across the Postsecondary Curriculum (Paperback)
Randy Laist, Nicole Brewer, Dana Sheehan
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cinema U (Paperback): Randy Laist, Kip Kline Cinema U (Paperback)
Randy Laist, Kip Kline
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s (Paperback): Randy Laist Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s (Paperback)
Randy Laist
R1,571 Discovery Miles 15 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along with the proliferation of new reality-bending technologies, made hyperreality seem to come true. In the "lost decade" between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11, the nature of reality itself became a source of uncertainty, a psychic condition that has been recognizably recorded by that seismograph of American consciousness, Hollywood cinema. The auteur cinema of the 1970s aimed for gritty realism, and the most prominent feature of Reagan-era cinema was its fantastic unrealism. Clinton-era cinema, however, is characterized by a prevailing mood of hyperrealism, communicated in various ways by such benchmark films as JFK, Pulp Fiction, and The Matrix. The hyperreal cinema of the 1990s conceives of the movie screen as neither a window on a preexisting social reality (realism), nor as a wormhole into a fantastic dream-dimension (escapism), but as an arena in which images and reality exchange masks, blend into one another, and challenge the philosophical premises which differentiate them from one another. Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s provides a guided tour through the anxieties and fantasies, reciprocally social and cinematic, which characterize the surreal territory of the hyperreal.

Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s (Hardcover): Randy Laist Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s (Hardcover)
Randy Laist
R4,966 Discovery Miles 49 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along with the proliferation of new reality-bending technologies, made hyperreality seem to come true. In the "lost decade" between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11, the nature of reality itself became a source of uncertainty, a psychic condition that has been recognizably recorded by that seismograph of American consciousness, Hollywood cinema. The auteur cinema of the 1970s aimed for gritty realism, and the most prominent feature of Reagan-era cinema was its fantastic unrealism. Clinton-era cinema, however, is characterized by a prevailing mood of hyperrealism, communicated in various ways by such benchmark films as "JFK, Pulp Fiction," and "The Matrix." The hyperreal cinema of the 1990s conceives of the movie screen as neither a window on a preexisting social reality (realism), nor as a wormhole into a fantastic dream-dimension (escapism), but as an arena in which images and reality exchange masks, blend into one another, and challenge the philosophical premises which differentiate them from one another. "Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s "provides a guided tour through the anxieties and fantasies, reciprocally social and cinematic, which characterize the surreal territory of the hyperreal.

The '80s Resurrected - Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now (Paperback): Randy Laist The '80s Resurrected - Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now (Paperback)
Randy Laist
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 1980s is remembered as a time of big hair, synthetic music, and microwave cookery. It is also remembered as the heyday of conservative politics, socioeconomic inequality, and moral panics. It is dichotomously remembered as either a nostalgic age of innocence or a regressive moral wasteland, depending on who you ask, and when. But, most of all, it is remembered. In retro fashion trends, in '80s-based film and television narratives, and through countless rebooted movies, video games, superheroes, and even political slogans imploring us to Make America Great Again (Again). More than merely a historical period, "the '80s" has grown into a contested myth, ever-evolving through the critical and expressive lens of popular culture. This book explores the many shapes the '80s mythos has taken across a diverse array of media. Essays examine television series such as Stranger Things, Cobra Kai, and POSE, films such as Dallas Buyers Club, Summer of '84, and Chocolate Babies, as well as video games, pop music, and toys. Collectively, these essays explore how representations of the 1980s influence the way we think about our past, our present, and our future.

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