"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.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 provocati ..."
Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Paperback) by TyrusMiller Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-7321-7, ISBN: 1-4744-7321-0
"Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and ..."
Singular Examples(1st Edition) Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) by TyrusMiller, Marjorie Perloff, Rainer Rumold Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2009 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2512-4, ISBN: 0-8101-2512-9
"This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postw ..."
"Over the past twenty years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature. Through essays, excerpts and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, and some of the most influential authors of the twentieth century have been featured in its pages. The spring issue of the Revew o ..."
Late Modernism Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars by TyrusMiller Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21648-8, ISBN: 0-520-21648-2
"Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years. In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, ..."
"99 Poets/1999 presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, culture, and temperament. With contributions from the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and China, the volume features responses to questions posed by the guest editor Charles Bernstein—responses that range from historical to imaginary and from philosophical to poetic.Each poet wa ..."
The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by TyrusMiller Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2016 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-64573-8, ISBN: 1-107-64573-5
"The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882 1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the ..."
The Culture of People's Democracy Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945-1948 (Historical Materialism Books (Haymarket Books)) by György Lukács, TyrusMiller Paperback, 374 Pages, Published 2014 by Historical Materialism ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-337-4, ISBN: 1-60846-337-0
"Engaged with questions of realist and modernist world-views in art, the relations of literary history to politics, and the role of cultural intellectuals in public life, this book of essays collects some of Lukács most influential writings. Translated into english for the time, these pieces offer a new look at one of the most significant Marxist thinkers of the twentieth-century."
"Peter Forgacs, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. "Cinema s Alchemist" offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which Forgacs reshapes such film footage, originally intended for private and personal viewing, into extraordinary films dedicated to remembering th ..."