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Includes bibliographical references and index
Hemispheric Jamestown - Anna Brickhouse -- - Hemispheric genealogies of "race" : creolization and the cultural geography of colonial difference across the eighteenth-century Americas - Ralph Bauer -- - "Famosa Filadelfia" : the hemispheric American city and constitutional debates - Rodrigo Lazo -- - Other country : Mexico, the United States, and the gothic history of conquest - Jesse Alemán -- - American Mediterranean : Haiti, Cuba, and the American South - Matthew Pratt Guterl -- - Expropriating the Great South and exporting "local color" : global and hemispheric imaginaries of the of the first reconstruction - Jennifer Rae Greeson -- - Mercurial space of "Central" America : New Orleans, Honduras, and the writing of the Banana Republic - Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- - "I'm the everybody who's nobody" : genealogies of the New World slave in Paul Robeson's performances of the 1930s - Michelle A. Stephens -- - Promises and perils of U.S. African American hemispherism : Latin America in Martin Delany's Blake and Gayl Jones's Mosquito - Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo -- - PEN and the sword : U.S.-Latin American cultural diplomacy and the 1966 PEN Club Congress - Deborah Cohn -- - Hemispheric routes of "El Nuevo Arte Nuestro" : the Pan American Union, cultural policy, and the Cold War - Claire F. Fox -- - Memín Pinguín, rumba, and racism : Afro-Mexicans in classic comics and film - Robert McKee Irwin -- - "Out of this world" : Islamic irruptions in the literary Americas - Timothy Marr -- - Of hemispheres and other spheres : navigating Karen Tei Yamashitaʹs literary world - Kandice Chuh -- - Northern borderlands and Latino Canadian diaspora - Rachel Adams -- - Afterword : the times of hemispheric studies - Susan Gillman
This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies
"Un-American" Hollywood
politics and film in the blacklist era
Erschienen:
c2007
Verlag:
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-336) and index
Are you now or have you ever been a Christian? the strange history of The robe as political allegory / Jeff Smith -- Un-American : Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in concrete / Erica Sheen -- "A living part of the class struggle" : Diego Rivera's The flower carrier and the Hollywood left / Frank Krutnik -- A monarch for the millions : Jewish filmmakers, social commentary, and the postwar cycle of boxing films / Peter Stanfield -- The violent poetry of the times : the politics of history in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The lawless / Doug Dibbern -- Dark passages : jazz and civil liberty in the postwar crime film / Sean McCann -- Documentary realism and the postwar left / Will Straw -- Cloaked in compromise : Jules Dassin's "naked" city / Rebecca Prime -- The progressive producer in the studio system : Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw -- The house I live in : Albert Maltz and the fight against anti-Semitism / Art Simon -- Red Hollywood in transition : the case of Robert Rossen / Brian Neve -- Swashbuckling, sapphire, and salt : un-American contributions to TV costume adventure series in the 1950s / Steve Neale -- Hollywood, the new left, and FTA / Mark Shiel -- Red Hollywood / Thom Anderson