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Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Autor: Harry Eiss

Número de Páginas: 308

On Monday, 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. In the single largest act of destruction ever initiated by humans, a bomb with the equivalent force of 20,000 tons of TNT shattered Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of civilians, people who had become used to the American war planes flying overhead, planes that were purposely not dropping bombs on their city, to the point where the rush to the bomb shelters had become lackadaisical, and the normal activities continued with little interruption – getting the children up and off to school, opening the many small retail stores for the daily customers, perhaps stopping at a local café for morning coffee or tea, perhaps joining in on the group exercise classes. This is the precise instant we entered the postmodern world, one where the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. Speculative Fiction projects real possibilities beyond the now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes – science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero comics, graphic novels, and movies, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Cyber Punk, the ...

Co-opting Culture

Co-opting Culture

Autor: Garrick B. Harden , Robert Carley

Número de Páginas: 338

Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of "cultural studies". Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable toolkits for understanding culture, the editors have brought together a collection of essays that address the ways in which the cultures around race, sex, and gender are mediated through or intersect with politics, society, and economy. Some essays deal directly with the theoretical nature of this mediation, while others adopt these theoretical approaches to investigate specific cultural objects or communities. In doing so, these essays call attention to the particularities of form that constitute a kind of cultural logic around the objects under consideration.

Knowing Fear

Knowing Fear

Autor: Jason Colavito

Número de Páginas: 465

Tracing the development of horror entertainment since the late 18th century, this study argues that scientific discovery, technological progress, and knowledge in general have played an unparalleled role in influencing the evolution of horror. Throughout its many subgenres (biological horror, cosmic horror and others) and formats (film, literature, comics), horror records humanity's uneasy relationship with its own ability to reason, understand, and learn. The text first outlines a loose framework defining several distinct periods in horror development, then explores each period sequentially by looking at the scientific and cultural background of the period, its expression in horror literature, and its expression in horror visual and performing arts.

Index to Poetry in Periodicals, 1920-1924

Index to Poetry in Periodicals, 1920-1924

Autor: Granger Book Co. Editorial Board

Número de Páginas: 206
Directory of American Philosophers, 2018-2019

Directory of American Philosophers, 2018-2019

Autor: Elizabeth Stombock

Número de Páginas: 720

The new edition of this essential resource contains thousands of edited listings for university and college philosophy programs, research centers, professional organizations, academic journals, and philosophy publishers in both countries. It also includes contact information for over 15,000 philosophers in the U.S. and Canada, and a brief statistical overview of the field.

Fatal Abstractions

Fatal Abstractions

Autor: Patricia J. Thompson

Número de Páginas: 298

She suggests that the domestic/civic aspects of everyday life be recognized as co-responsible options and offers a case study of the demise of a hestian home economics department in the hermean environment of higher education to illustrate her points.

Constructing America's War Culture

Constructing America's War Culture

Autor: Thomas Conroy , Jarice Hanson

Número de Páginas: 188

In 1927, political scientist Harold Lasswell wrote about the strategies employed by the American government to sell the benefits of participating in World War I to a reluctant public. In Propaganda Techniques in World War I, Lasswell discussed the 'manipulative symbols to manipulate opinions and attitudes' (p 9). Ever since then, all wars have involved specialists who attempt to control the way the media report about war and the way media contribute to shaping public opinion. This collection of essays discusses how media have 'packaged' the war in Iraq. The chapters in this collection explore the way the media have presented the war to us by telling us human interest stories, supporting public policies, and crafting a narrative that supports the war. Some chapters focus on the way the Bush administration has actively promoted and attempted to control information; others tell of how the media have either been complicit in supporting the dominant narrative, or how the public has used the images in the media to negotiate attitudes toward the war, terrorism, and international relations. All of the chapters discuss the relationships among conflict, political agendas, the power of...

Book Review Index

Book Review Index

Número de Páginas: 1520

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Autor: Mark Hawkins-dady

Número de Páginas: 1024

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Brinkman's Cumulatieve catalogus van boeken de in Nederland en vlaanderen zijn uitgegeven of herdrukte

Brinkman's Cumulatieve catalogus van boeken de in Nederland en vlaanderen zijn uitgegeven of herdrukte

Número de Páginas: 870
'American Book Publishing Record' Cumulative

'American Book Publishing Record' Cumulative

Autor: R. R. Bowker Llc

Número de Páginas: 1256
The British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography

Autor: Arthur James Wells

Número de Páginas: 2000
American Philosophers Before 1950

American Philosophers Before 1950

Autor: Philip Breed Dematteis , Leemon B. Mchenry

Número de Páginas: 440

Essays on important figures in American philosophy that began or ended their careers elsewhere. Most of these philosophers were influenced by, or reacted against, the mainstream of thought in Great Britain and continental Europe. Discusses the two dominant approaches to philosophy, analytic and postmodern. Discusses the classical period of American philosophy as well as the rise of logical positivism and various forms of linguistic and conceptual analysis.

American Writers

American Writers

Autor: Leonard Unger

Número de Páginas: 640

The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.

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