" Theodore Dreiser staked his reputation on fearless expression in his fiction, but he never was more outspoken than when writing about American politics, which he did prolifically. Although he is remembered primarily as a novelist, the majority of his twenty-seven books were nonfiction treatises. To Dreiser, everything was political. His sense for the hype and hypocrisies of politics took shape in reasoned but emphatic ruminations in ..."
Diana, A Cultural History Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess by JudeDavies Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-73688-3, ISBN: 0-333-73688-5
"This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class, the royal, national identity, and the human. The book then goes on to assess the issues at ..."
"Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic repre ..."
"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."
"Americanization - the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA - has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed understanding of the cultural processes of Americanization. Included are chapters on music, art, film and literature. Designed with classroom use in mind, it provides a number of different routes into the debates and probl ..."