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  1. American employers' interests and migrant labour in historical perspective
    Autor*in: Okólski, Marek
    Erschienen: March 2023
    Verlag:  Centre of Migration Research, [Warsaw]

    The paper is the result of a larger effort to identify in contemporary history the links between employer interests and labour migration and the allocation of migrants in the labour market. The author focuses on the specifics of these relationships... mehr

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    The paper is the result of a larger effort to identify in contemporary history the links between employer interests and labour migration and the allocation of migrants in the labour market. The author focuses on the specifics of these relationships in the United States, under different political and economic conditions. In particular, he addresses conditions that prevailed during the early period of colonisation and settlement in North America, during the development and flourishing of the plantation economy, during the phase of intensive industrialisation and in the current period of globalisation. He discusses the ways in which employer interests related to the influx and employment of immigrants are expressed, including lobbying. The analysis contained in the paper demonstrates the persistence of employers interests related to migrant labour, despite changing political and economic circumstances.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: CMR working papers ; 131 = 189
    Schlagworte: labour migration; employer interests; United States
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 62 Seiten)
  2. The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States
    a systematic literature review
    Autor*in: Schotte, Simone; Leone, Tharcisio; Gisselquist, Rachel M.
    Erschienen: January 2023
    Verlag:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action (AA) policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most... mehr

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    This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action (AA) policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most influential national experiences: caste-based AA in India and race-based AA in the United States. We find that AA has been successful in extending the opportunities available to target groups in both countries, with the Indian reservation policy showing stronger effects on the representation of minorities than non-quota measures in the US. Evidence on the impact of AA on the performance and actual achievements of target groups is more diverse. This is primarily due to mixed findings regarding the prevalence of academic mismatch among students admitted via AA, which has been investigated primarily in the US context. Evidence on the spillover effects of AA to non-target groups is scarce but points to negative replacement effects among over-represented groups.

     
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    ISBN: 9789292673239
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    Schriftenreihe: WIDER working paper ; 2023, 15
    Schlagworte: affirmative action; systematic review; inequalities; India; United States
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 31 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Give me your best shot!
    diffusion of complete versus booster Covid-19 vaccines across US counties
    Autor*in: Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A.
    Erschienen: July 2023
    Verlag:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    This paper compares drivers of full COVID-19 vaccinations and booster doses across U.S. counties. Booster doses are contingent upon someone receiving the primary doses, and the risk attitudes and propensities to get vaccinated may be different across... mehr

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    This paper compares drivers of full COVID-19 vaccinations and booster doses across U.S. counties. Booster doses are contingent upon someone receiving the primary doses, and the risk attitudes and propensities to get vaccinated may be different across individuals, along with the supply chain differences across the primary and booster doses. Results show that new covid cases do not significantly impact vaccinations, while supply chain aspects via pharmacies had a positive impact. The effects of income, race, age, and education were largely consistent with intuition. Further, political ideologies mattered, while government decentralization did not. There were differences in the signs, magnitudes, and significance of the influence of some drivers across primary versus booster doses. Robustness checks include using alternative estimation techniques and examining differences across counties with low- and high vaccination rates. Policy implications are discussed.

     
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    hdl: 10419/279309
    Schriftenreihe: CESifo working papers ; 10559 (2023)
    Schlagworte: Covid-19; vaccination; pandemic; booster; government; supply chain; pharmacies; political ideology; risk attitudes; county; United States
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 26 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. The limits of hegemony
    U.S. banks and Chilean firms in the Cold War
    Autor*in: Aldunate, Felipe; González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London, London

    Governments in hegemonic states use economic sanctions to induce changes in other countries. What happens to international business networks when these sanctions are in place? We use new historical firm-level data to document the destruction of... mehr

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    Governments in hegemonic states use economic sanctions to induce changes in other countries. What happens to international business networks when these sanctions are in place? We use new historical firm-level data to document the destruction of financial relations between U.S. banks and Chilean firms after socialist Salvador Allende took office in 1970. Business reports and stock prices suggest that firms were mostly unaffected by having fewer links with U.S. banks. Substitution of financial relations towards domestic banks appears to be the key mechanism explaining these findings.

     
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    hdl: 10419/284302
    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London ; no. 952 (June 2023)
    Schlagworte: firms; banks; Cold War; United States; Salvador Allende
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 66 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Understanding the growth of solitary leisure in the U.S., 1965 - 2018
    Autor*in: Rinderknecht, R. Gordon; Negraia, Daniela Veronica; Lohmann, Sophie; Zagheni, Emilio
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

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    Schriftenreihe: MPIDR working paper ; WP 2023, 025 (May 2023)
    Schlagworte: social isolation; time use; population change; United States; historical trends; technology
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 50 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. Losing the plot
    film and feeling in the modern novel
    Autor*in: Dabashi, Pardis
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    "It is widely understood that the modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the "tyranny" of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of Victorian, plot-driven novels, Pardis Dabashi shows that plot... mehr

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    "It is widely understood that the modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the "tyranny" of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of Victorian, plot-driven novels, Pardis Dabashi shows that plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner-writers known for their moviegoing affinities and connections to early film-Dabashi uses the relationship between literature and the cinema to reveal a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of Larsen, Barnes, and Faulkner to the tensions in their works, tensions between the formal properties of the novels and the characters in them. In making a distinction between what the novel is doing and what their characters desire, these authors ponder how it is one thing to withhold plot as a gesture of modernist aesthetics, and quite another to be denied the comfort of plot's architecture in one's living and breathing existence"--

     
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  7. The Irish and the imagination of race
    white supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century
    Autor*in: O'Malley, Patrick R.
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville ; London

    "This book analyzes the role of Irishness in the nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Centering the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, it asks how the... mehr

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    "This book analyzes the role of Irishness in the nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Centering the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, it asks how the seemingly liberationist politics of many mid-nineteenth-century Irish nationalist writers could fail to comprehend the ethical necessity of opposing both race-based chattel enslavement in the United States and the structures of white supremacy that underwrote and ultimately outlived it. Many of the writers O'Malley focuses on drew specifically upon the image of Black suffering as support for their arguments for Irish political enfranchisement; yet, in doing so, they frequently fell into what he identifies as a failure of translation, a misrepresentation of the fundamental differences between Irish and Black experience under the regimes of white supremacy"--

     
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    Quelle: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9780813950570; 0813950570; 9780813950563; 0813950562
    Weitere Schlagworte: English literature / Irish authors / History and criticism; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; White supremacy movements / Influence; Racism / United States / Influence; Slavery / United States / Influence; Irish / United States / History / 19th century; Nationalism / Ireland / History / 19th century; Prejudices in literature; United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Influence; Littérature anglaise / Auteurs irlandais / Histoire et critique; Littérature anglaise / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche / Influence; Racisme / États-Unis / Influence; Esclavage / États-Unis / Influence; Nationalisme / Irlande / Histoire / 19e siècle; Préjugés dans la littérature; English literature / Irish authors; English literature; White supremacy movements; Racism; United States; Slavery; Irish; History; Nationalism; Ireland; Prejudices in literature; 19th century
    Umfang: x, 311 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Nineteenth-century Irishness and the construction of race -- The Gothic Palimpsest of Black and Irish histories -- From Irish Bardicism to the white nationalist verse epic -- Irish American Whiteness in The Garies and their Friends -- John Mitchel and the polemic of white grievance -- Performing sympathy in The Octoroon -- Coda: The Irish national tale and confederate nostalgia
  8. Perplexing plots
    popular storytelling and the poetics of murder
    Autor*in: Bordwell, David
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Columbia University Press, New York

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  9. Faulknerista
    Autor*in: Kodat, Catherine Gunther
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

    "Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as... mehr

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    "Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book's nine chapters place Faulkner's work in the context of current debates concerning the politics of white authors who write about race, queer sexualities, and the use of the N-word in literature and popular culture. The Faulknerista of the title is a critic who tackles these debates without fear or favor, balancing admiration with skepticism in a manner that establishes a new model for single-author scholarship that is both historically grounded (for women have been writing about Faulkner, and talking back to him, since the beginning of his career) and urgently contemporary. Beginning with an introduction that argues for the critical importance of women's engagement with Faulkner's fiction, through comparative discussions pairing it with works by Toni Morrison, Jean-Luc Godard, Quentin Tarantino, and David Simon, Faulknerista offers a valuable resource for students, scholars, and general readers, written in an accessible style and aimed at stimulating discussions of Faulkner's work and the rich interpretive challenges it continues to present"--

     
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    ISBN: 9780807178492; 9780807179178
    Schriftenreihe: Southern literary studies
    Schlagworte: Interpretation; Literarisches Werk
    Weitere Schlagworte: Faulkner, William (1897-1962); Faulkner, William / 1897-1962 / Criticism and interpretation; American fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Women and literature / United States / History; Faulkner, William / 1897-1962; American fiction; Women and literature; United States; 1900-1999; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Umfang: xiii, 295 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: Musings of a Faulknerista -- Putting it all on one pinhead -- Pulp fictions -- Writing a fable for America -- A postmodern Absalom, Absalom!, A modern beloved : the dialectic of form -- Posting Yoknapatawpha -- "C'est vraiment dégueulasse" : last words in A bout de souffle and If I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Making camp : go down, Moses -- Unhistoricizing Faulkner -- What television is for; or, from "The Brooch" to The wire
  10. American women's history on film
    Autor*in: Welch, Rosanne; Lamphier, Peg A.
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California; Denver, Colorado

    "This book focuses on 10 films and the females who have influenced American history from1954 through 2018, looking at the range of occupations that existed in these films"-- mehr

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    "This book focuses on 10 films and the females who have influenced American history from1954 through 2018, looking at the range of occupations that existed in these films"--

     
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  11. Monstrous things
    essays on ghosts, vampires, and things that go bump in the night
    Autor*in: Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina

    "An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores both popular and obscure pieces about the undead and unholy. Beginning with the author's personal reflections on frightful manifestations in... mehr

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    "An indispensable resource for students and researchers of paranormal myth and media, this book explores both popular and obscure pieces about the undead and unholy. Beginning with the author's personal reflections on frightful manifestations in media, chapters interrogate the roots and representations of well-known supernatural entities, and are divided into three sections that contextualize ghosts, vampires and monsters. The section dedicated to ghosts explores spectrality in the work of Herman Melville and Toni Morrison. In the vampires section, the author considers the undead bloodsucker's relationship to antisemitism, suicide, and cinema. The third section includes pieces that explore the otherizations of monsters in films like It Follows, 2017's IT and It Comes at Night. Considerations of monstrosity in the age of global pandemics, terrorism and "stranger danger" are also addressed at length."

     
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  12. Imaginary empires
    women writers and alternative futures in early US literature
    Autor*in: O'Malley, Maria
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

    "In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women's engagement in the formation of empire. Her analysis unearths a variety of responses to contact, exchange, and... mehr

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    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    "In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women's engagement in the formation of empire. Her analysis unearths a variety of responses to contact, exchange, and cohabitation in the early United States, stressing the possibilities inherent in the literary to foster participation, resignification, and rapprochement. New readings of The Female American, Leonora Sansay's Secret History, Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic, and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl confound the metaphors of ghosts, haunting, and amnesia that proliferate in many recent studies of early US literary history. Instead, as O'Malley shows, these writings foreground acts of foundational violence involved in the militarization of domestic spaces, the legal impediments to the transfer of property and wealth, and the geopolitical standing of the United States. Racialized and gendered figures in the texts refuse to die, leave, or stay silent. In imagining different kinds of futures, these writers reckon with the ambivalent role of women in empire-building as they negotiate between their own subordinate position in society and their exertion of sovereignty over others. By tracing a thread of virtual history found in works by women, Imaginary Empires explores how reflections of the past offer a means of shaping future sociopolitical formations"--

     
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    ISBN: 9780807178485
    RVK Klassifikation: HT 1732
    Schlagworte: Frauenliteratur; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>; Alternativgeschichte
    Weitere Schlagworte: American fiction / Women authors / 18th century / History and criticism; American fiction / Women authors / 19th century / History and criticism; Alternative histories (Fiction), American / History and criticism; Women in literature; United States / In literature; Alternative histories (Fiction), American; American fiction / Women authors; Literature; Women in literature; United States; 1700-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Umfang: x, 230 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Contents: The "fantasy" of a woman in charge in the female American -- Talking sex and revolution in Saint-Domingue in Sansay's Secret history -- The militarization of home in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie -- The limits of the imaginary in the reconstructed US in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic -- Massachusetts in the American imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl
  13. Persuading the public
    the evolution of popular presidential communication from Washington to Trump
    Autor*in: Pluta, Anne C.
    Erschienen: [2023]023
    Verlag:  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence

    "Scholars of the US presidency, Jeffrey Tulis most famously, often claim that around the turn of the twentieth century-with the rise of what is known as the modern presidency-the office made a sharp shift from a more constitutional presidency,... mehr

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    "Scholars of the US presidency, Jeffrey Tulis most famously, often claim that around the turn of the twentieth century-with the rise of what is known as the modern presidency-the office made a sharp shift from a more constitutional presidency, focused on the traditional work of statecraft and constrained by a constitutional norm against discussing public policy with the public, to a rhetorical presidency in which the president seeks to engage directly with the public and appeal to the nation as the basis for governance. Anne Pluta rethinks this narrative by examining anew the development of the popular communication practices of American presidents between 1789 and 2021, with a particular focus on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This period is often overlooked by political scientists and is essential to understanding later developments in presidential rhetoric. Using a multimethod approach, Pluta argues that presidents from the start were political opportunists seeking a connection with the public. Their opportunities and incentives change through time as a function of technological innovation, the changing party system, the expansion of American democracy, and the evolving media landscape"

     
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  14. True west
    Sam Shepard's life, work, and times
    Autor*in: Greenfield, Robert
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  Crown, New York

    "An intimate portrait of the iconic playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard, whose wide-ranging and enduring body of work places him at the center of the American canon, from an award-winning biographer. True West is the story of an American... mehr

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    "An intimate portrait of the iconic playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard, whose wide-ranging and enduring body of work places him at the center of the American canon, from an award-winning biographer. True West is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. This sweeping biography charts Shepard's long and complicated journey from a small town in southern California to his standing as an internationally known playwright and movie star. The son of an alcoholic father, Shepard crafted a public persona as an authentic American archetype: the loner, the cowboy, the drifter, a stranger in a strange land. Despite his great critical and financial success, he seemed, like so many of his characters, to remain perpetually dispossessed. Much like Robert Greenfield's biographies of Jerry Garcia and Timothy Leary, this book delves deeply into Shepard's life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it. True West takes readers through the world of downtown theater in lower Manhattan in the early sixties, the jazz scene at the Village Gate, fringe theatre in London in the seventies, Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour, the making of classic films like Zabriskie Point, Days of Heaven, and The Right Stuff, and Broadway productions of Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love. For this definitive biography, Greenfield interviewed dozens of people who knew Shepard well, many of whom had never before spoken on the record about him. While exploring his relationships with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange across the long arc of his brilliant career, Greenfield makes the case for Shepard not just as a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock 'n' roll to serious theater"--

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780525575955; 0525575952
    RVK Klassifikation: HU 8341
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First edition
    Schlagworte: Shepard, Sam;
    Weitere Schlagworte: Shepard, Sam (1943-2017); Shepard, Sam / 1943-2017; Dramatists, American / 20th century / Biography; Actors / United States / Biography; Shepard, Sam / 1943-2017; Actors; Dramatists, American; United States; 1900-1999; Biographies; Biographies
    Umfang: xii, 432 Seiten, 8 unnumerierte Seiten Bildtafeln, Illustrationen, 25 cm
  15. Women in American operas of the 1950s
    undoing gendered archetypes
    Autor*in: Hershberger, Monica
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  University of Rochester Press, Rochester

    "In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera repertory that would be deeply responsive to American culture and American concerns. They did not break free, however, of the age-old paradigm so... mehr

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    "In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera repertory that would be deeply responsive to American culture and American concerns. They did not break free, however, of the age-old paradigm so typically expressed in European opera: that is, of women as either saintly and pure or sexually corrupt, with no middle ground. As a result, in American opera of the 1950s, women risked becoming once again opera's inevitable victims. Yet the sopranos who were tasked with portraying these paragons of virtue and their opposites did not always take them as their composers and librettists made them. Sometimes they rewrote, through their performances, the roles they had been assigned. Sometimes they used their lived experiences to invest greater authenticity in the roles. With chapters on The Tender Land, Susannah, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Lizzie Borden, this book analyzes some of the most performed yet understudied works in the American-opera canon. It acknowledges Catherine Clément's famous description of opera as "the undoing of women," while at the same time illuminating how singers like Beverly Sills and Phyllis Curtin worked to resist such undoing, years before the official resurgence of the American feminist movement. In short, they ended up helping to dismantle powerful gendered stereotypes that had often reigned unquestioned in opera houses until then"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781648250613; 9781648250668
    Schriftenreihe: Eastman studies in music ; 187
    Schlagworte: Oper; Frau <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Women in opera; Opera / United States / 20th century; Opera; Women in opera; United States; 1900-1999
    Umfang: x, 228 Seiten, Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, 23 cm
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    American opera at mid-century -- A conniving gold digger : Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor -- A "really vicious monster" : Lizzie Andrew Borden -- A chaste white woman : Laurie Moss -- A dangerous jezebel : Susannah Polk -- Epilogue "The world so wide" : beyond the virgin or the whore in the twenty-first century
  16. Horror noire
    a history of Black American horror from the 1890s to the present
    Autor*in: Means Coleman, Robin R.
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York ; London

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    RVK Klassifikation: MS 7960
    Auflage/Ausgabe: Second edition
    Schlagworte: Schwarze <Motiv>; Horrorfilm; Schwarze
    Weitere Schlagworte: Horror films / United States / History and criticism; African Americans in motion pictures; Race in motion pictures; African Americans in motion pictures; Horror films; Race in motion pictures; United States; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Umfang: xxi, 380 Seiten
  17. The American dream and American cinema in the age of Trump
    from object relations to social relations
    Autor*in: Clarke, Graham S.; Clarke, Ross
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    "The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump uses both film theory and insights from object relations theory in order to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the 'American Dream'. This fascinating book looks at how... mehr

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    "The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump uses both film theory and insights from object relations theory in order to examine how recent films address and reflect the state of the 'American Dream'. This fascinating book looks at how the American Dream is one of the organizing ideas of American cinema, and one of the most influential cultural outputs of the twenty-first century, at a time of internal crisis. In an era characterized by populism, climate change, and economic uncertainty, the book considers nine auteur films in how they illustrate the challenges of contemporary America. Graham S. Clarke and Ross Clarke present a bifocal perspective on some of the most well-received American films of recent years and how they relate to the American Dream in the context of the Trump presidency. For each of the nine films discussed, two different accounts are presented side by side so that each film is considered from an (internal world) object relations psychoanalytic point of view as well as an (external world) film and cultural theory perspective. This unique approach is complemented by discussion of political and critical theory, providing a thorough and engaging analysis. Challenging and insightful, The American Dream and American Cinema in the Age of Trump will be of great interest to scholars of cinema, popular culture, American studies and psychoanalytic studies"--

     
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    RVK Klassifikation: AP 50000
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First published
    Schriftenreihe: The psychoanalysis and popular culture series
    Schlagworte: American dream; Film
    Weitere Schlagworte: American Dream in motion pictures; Psychoanalysis and motion pictures / United States; Motion pictures / United States / Psychological aspects / History / 21st century; Motion pictures / Social aspects / United States / History / 21st century; Motion pictures / Political aspects / United States / History / 21st century; Trump, Donald / 1946- / Influence; Rêve américain au cinéma; Psychanalyse et cinéma / États-Unis; Cinéma / Aspect social / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle; Trump, Donald / 1946-; American Dream in motion pictures; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Motion pictures / Political aspects; Motion pictures / Psychological aspects; Motion pictures / Social aspects; Psychoanalysis and motion pictures; United States; 2000-2099; History
    Umfang: xii, 240 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Introduction: the American dream and a binocular approach to analysing film -- External worlds -- Internal worlds -- The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) -- Roma (Cuaron, 2018) -- First reformed ((The Old Guard) Schrader, 2017) -- Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) -- Joker (Phillips, 2019) -- You were never really here (Ramsay, 2017) -- Windows (McQueen, 2018) -- Us (Peele, 2019) -- Once upon a time in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019) -- Conclusion: reflections on the USA presidential elections and the end of Trump
  18. Modern American poetry and the architectural imagination
    the harmony of forms
    Autor*in: Gill, Jo
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York

    Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century. Taking the work of five key poets as case studies,... mehr

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    Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century. Taking the work of five key poets as case studies, and drawing on the work of a rich range of other writers, architects, artists, and commentators, this study proposes that by examining the sustained and productive - if hitherto overlooked - engagement between the two disciplines, we enrich our understanding of the complexity and interrelationship of both. Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination begins by tracing the rise of what was conceived of as "modern" (and often "international style") architecture and by showing how poetry and architecture in the early decades of the century developed in tandem, in dialogue, and within a shared, and often transnational, context. The book then moves on to examine the material, aesthetic, and social conditions that helped shape both disciplines, offering new readings of familiar poems and bringing other pertinent resources to light. It considers the uses to which poets of the period put the insights of architecture - and vice versa. In closing, the book turns to modern and contemporary architects' written accounts of their own practice, in memoirs and other commentaries, and examines how they have assimilated, or resisted, the practice and vision of poetry

     
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  19. Called to the camera
    Black American studio photographers
    Beteiligt: Piper, Brian; Mason, John Edwin; Williams, Carla; Lord, Russell; Taylor, Susan M.
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  New Orleans Museum of Art, [New Orleans, La.] ; Yale University Press, New Haven ; London

    From photography's beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of popular media to produce affirming portraits for their clients, as well as a wide range of photographic work rooted in their... mehr

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    From photography's beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of popular media to produce affirming portraits for their clients, as well as a wide range of photographic work rooted in their communities. Called to the Camera offers a comprehensive history of this work, from the nineteenth-century daguerreotypes of James Presley Ball to the height of Black studios in the mid-twentieth century, and considers contemporary photographers responding to Black studio traditions today. In addition to showcasing famous photographers such as Ball, James Van Der Zee, and Addison Scurlock, this volume brings attention to dozens of other artists across the country, including Florestine Perrault Collins, Austin Hansen, and Henry Clay Anderson. The book features more than one hundred extraordinary vintage photographs, many of them unique objects and some, like those by the Hooks Brothers Studio, published here for the first time. Highlighting Black subjects on both sides of the camera, Called to the Camera presents a broader and more inclusive history of photography

     
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    Beteiligt: Piper, Brian; Mason, John Edwin; Williams, Carla; Lord, Russell; Taylor, Susan M.
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9780300267389
    Schlagworte: Fotostudio; Schwarze <Motiv>; Porträtfotografie; Schwarze
    Weitere Schlagworte: African American portrait photographers / Exhibitions; African American photographers / Exhibitions; African Americans / Portraits / Exhibitions; Portrait photography / United States / History / Exhibitions; Photographes portraitistes noirs américains / Expositions; Photographes noirs américains / Expositions; Photographie / États-Unis / Histoire / Expositions; Portraits (Photographie) / États-Unis / Expositions; ART / American / African American & Black; African American photographers; Photography; History; United States; History; Exhibition catalogs; Photobooks
    Umfang: 226 Seiten, 29 cm
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    Frontispizseite: exhibition dates: New Orleans Museum of Art, September 15, 2022 - January 8, 2023

    Director's foreword / Susan M. Taylor -- Introduction / Russell Lord -- "Where there's beauty we take it, and where there's none we can make it:" the work of Black American photography studios / Brian Piper -- Nobody's "faithful servant:" Henry Martin represents himself / John Edwin Mason -- The art of seeing as being seen / Carla Williams
  20. The music for "Victory at sea"
    Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, and the making of a TV masterpiece
    Autor*in: Ferencz, George Joseph
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, USA

    "Victory at Sea, NBC-TV's innovative 1952-53 WWII documentary, was eventually broadcast to more than 100 million viewers worldwide. Its episodes chronicled the war's conflicts while highlighting the US Navy's contributions, NBC having sourced footage... mehr

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    "Victory at Sea, NBC-TV's innovative 1952-53 WWII documentary, was eventually broadcast to more than 100 million viewers worldwide. Its episodes chronicled the war's conflicts while highlighting the US Navy's contributions, NBC having sourced footage from the military, governments, and newsreel agencies of 14 nations. Victory's special distinction was its music, with each episode's nonstop score recorded by the acclaimed NBC Symphony Orchestra. The music was credited to Richard Rodgers--then at the height of his fame--as composer, and Robert Russell Bennett as arranger and conductor. In fact, Rodgers composed twelve piano themes; Bennett developed these endlessly for orchestra and, in addition, composed many hours of the score outright. Part One chronicles Victory's gestation and production at NBC, its reception, the series' afterlife in syndication and home video, and the score's "Gold Record" sales success on RCA records. Part Two examines each episode in turn, focusing on how the Bennett-scored music pairs with screen action. Every transformation of the much-used Rodgers themes is cited, along with the episodes' musical inter-relationships. The hundreds of musical examples generously sample the score's 11 and a half hours of music. NBC's Victory has been neglected by Richard Rodgers's biographers and by film historians. As the series celebrates its 70th anniversary, the Rodgers-Bennett score here finally receives recognition for its artistry and power"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781648250620
    Schriftenreihe: Eastman studies in music ; v. 190
    Schlagworte: Zweiter Weltkrieg <Motiv>; Filmmusik; Fernsehserie
    Weitere Schlagworte: Rodgers, Richard (1902-1979): Victory at sea; Rodgers, Richard / 1902-1979 / Victory at sea; Bennett, Robert Russell / 1894-1981; Victory at sea (Television program); Television music / United States / History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 / Television and the war; Bennett, Robert Russell / 1894-1981; Victory at sea (Rodgers, Richard); Victory at sea (Television program); Television music; War and television; United States; 1939-1945; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Umfang: x, 386 Seiten, Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Porträts, 23 cm
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    Part one: Victory's inception, production, and impact. Henry Salomon, NBC, the U.S. Navy and Victory's genesis; Assembling Victory's production team, preparing an episode; Victory's debut season : sponsorship (or not?), promotion, scheduling, and awards; Richard Rodgers : twelve themes for Victory, the "thirteen hour score" legend and two breakout hits; Robert Russell Bennett : preparing for Victory, music for a global war, and the importance of F# -- The NBC Symphony -- and Victory's 1952-1953 recording sessions; The Victory scripts' poetics -- Robert Montgomery, C.S. Forester, and Victory; Victory on records : the commercial and "house" LPs; Victory abridged : for film (1954) and television (1960); Victory's predecessors and successors -- Part two: The twenty-six Victory episodes. Introduction; EP1, "Design for war"; EP2, "The Pacific boils over"; EP3, "Sealing the breach"; EP4, "Midway is east"; EP5, "Mediterranean mosaic"; EP6, "Guadalcanal"; EP7, "Rings around Rabaul"; EP8, "Mare nostrum"; E9, "Sea and sand"; EP10, "Beneath the Southern Cross"; EP11, "The magnetic north"; EP12, "the conquest of Micronesia"; EP13, "Melanesian nightmare"; EP14, "Roman renaissance"; EP15, "D-Day", EP16, "Killers and the killed"; EP17, "The turkey shoot"; EP18, "Two if by sea"; EP19, "Battle of Leyte Gulf"; EP20, "Return of the allies"; EP21, "Full fathom five"; EP22, "The fate of Europe"; EP23, "Target Suribachi"; EP24, "The road to Mandalay"; EP25, "Suicide for glory"; EP26, "Design for peace"; Postscript -- Appendix one: Robert Russell Bennett : a grandson's Victory remembrance -- Appendix two : Victory at sea : a chronology -- Appendix three : Digest of Victory's music-scoring statistics -- Appendix four : sample shot list (EP26) -- Appendix five : The 1959 companion book
  21. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
    Britain and the American dream ; with Benjamin Franklin, William Strahan, Samuel Johnson, John Wilkes, Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Paine
    Autor*in: Moore, Peter
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    "A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit... mehr

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    "A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down--and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the "American dream." Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution" --

     
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  22. The art of NASA
    the illustrations that sold the missions
    Autor*in: Bizony, Piers
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Motorbooks, an imprint of The Quarto Group, Beverly, MA, USA

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  23. In the shadow of The Birth of a Nation
    racism, reception and resistance
    Beteiligt: Stokes, Melvyn (Hrsg.); McEwan, Paul (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland

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    ISBN: 9783031047367
    Schlagworte: Rezeption; Rassismus <Motiv>
    Weitere Schlagworte: Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915); Race in motion pictures; United States / Race relations; Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915); Race in motion pictures; Race relations; United States
    Umfang: xviii, 310 Seiten, Illustrationen
  24. Understanding superhero comic books
    a history of key elements, creators, events and controversies
    Autor*in: Grand, Alex
    Erschienen: [2023]
    Verlag:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina

    "This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how superheroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their... mehr

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    "This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how superheroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their respective eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and reflecting an amalgam of influences. It covers in detail the iconic superhero comic book creators and their unique contributions that impacted the medium, including Julius Schwartz and the science-fiction origins of superheroes; the collaborative design of the Marvel Universe by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Steve Ditko; Jim Starlin's incorporation of the death of superheroes in comic books; John Byrne and the revitalization of superheroes in the modern age; and Alan Moore's deconstruction of superheroes"

     
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    Beteiligt: Steranko, Jim
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    ISBN: 9781476690391
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 7120
    Schlagworte: Comic; Interpretation; Motiv; Superheld
    Weitere Schlagworte: Comic books, strips, etc / United States / History and criticism; Comic books, strips, etc; Superheroes in comics; United States; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Comics criticism
    Umfang: xi, 346 Seiten, Illustrationen
  25. First family
    George Washington's heirs and the making of America
    Autor*in: Good, Cassandra A.
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  Hanover Square Press, Toronto, Ontario

    "In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, as well as meet the children he helped raise and trace their complicated roles in American history."--Inside jacket "While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never... mehr

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    "In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, as well as meet the children he helped raise and trace their complicated roles in American history."--Inside jacket "While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised numerous children together. In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, as well as meet the children he helped raise and trace their complicated roles in American history. The children of Martha Washington's son by her first marriage--Eliza, Patty, Nelly and Wash Custis--were born into life in the public eye. Raised in the country's first "first family," they remained well-known as Washington's family and keepers of his legacy throughout their lives. By turns petty and powerful, glamorous and cruel, the Custises used Washington as a means to enhance their own power and status. As enslavers committed to the American empire, the Custis family embodied the failures of the American experiment that finally exploded into civil war--all the while being celebrities in a soap opera of their own making. First Family brings new focus and attention to this surprisingly neglected aspect of George Washington's life and legacy. As the country grapples with concerns about political dynasties and the public role of presidential families, the saga of Washington's family offers a human story of historical precedent." -- Amazon.com

     
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