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“nancy matelski”

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  • American Businesses in China

    Balancing Culture and Communication, 3d ed.

    by Nancy Lynch Street, Marilyn J. Matelski ...
    Since the publication of earlier editions of this book, China's political and economic landscapes have changed dramatically, with the rise of new leadership, evolving alliances, tariff wars, educational policies and technological advancements. Focusing on Chinese-American ventures, this expanded and revised edition chronicles the investments that have marked China's astonishing growth in the 21st ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • War and Film in America

    Historical and Critical Essays

    Edited by Marilyn J. Matelski, Nancy Lynch Street ...
    America's chief exports are war and entertainment; combined, they are the war films viewed all over the world. The film industry is a partner of the government; American film shapes the ways in which both Americans and others view war. The authors herein explore differing film perspectives across five decades.The essays, written especially for this volume, explore topics such as frontier justice, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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    A Battle of the Books (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Gail Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Richard Barnes, Mary Williams, Nancy Matelski, Ronald Foster ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publishers, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that he should declare the causes which impel him to the separation." So begins the alleged author's introduction to this work, which chronicles the conflict between a female author and her publisher. This ... Read more

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  • Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner ...
    For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death.This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the ... Read more

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  • The Long March

    How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

    by Roger Kimball ...
    In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex ... Read more

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  • Action Movies

    The Cinema of Striking Back

    by Harvey O'Brien ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • 1973 Nervous Breakdown

    Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America

    by Andreas Killen ...
    1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the oil crisis and the Watergate hearings. It was also a year of remarkable creative ferment. From landmark movies such as The Exorcist, Mean Streets, and American Graffiti to seminal books such as Fear of Flying and Gravity's ... Read more

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  • A Cinema of Loneliness

    by Robert Kolker ...
    An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade, incorporating discussions of directors like Judd Apatow and David Fincher while offering assessments of the recent, and in some cases final, work from the filmmakers--Penn, Scorsese, Stone, Altman, Kubrick- ... Read more

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  • Steven Spielberg and Philosophy

    We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book

    by Dean A. Kowalski ...
    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    "This lively collection of essays on the ideas underpinning his films enriches and enlarges our understanding of Spielberg's complex body of work." —Joseph McBride, author of Steven Spielberg: A BiographyFew directors have had as powerful an influence on the film industry and the movie-going public as Steven Spielberg. Whatever the subject—dinosaurs, war, extra-terrestrials, slavery, the Holocaust ... Read more

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  • The End of Victory Culture

    Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation

    by Thomas M. Engelhardt ...
    Series series Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
    In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden, “Wanted, Dead or Alive”); how his administration brought “victory culture” roaring back ... Read more

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  • Subversive Horror Cinema

    Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

    by Jon Towlson ...
    Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s ... Read more

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