Representing and Imagining America /

Representing and Imagining America / / Philip John Davies.

In America, perhaps more than in any other western society, reality, legend and myth overlap. Americans have always been proprietorial about their country and its presentation. The international authors of this book open a range of windows on our study of the USA. Covering issues of culture and soci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Davies, Philip John,
MitwirkendeR:
Barden, Thomas E.,
Bell, Kathleen,
Cartmell, Deborah,
Chibnall, Steve,
Davies, Philip John,
Hall, Jim,
Hunter, I. Q.,
Knight, Stephen,
Le Beau, Bryan F.,
Lewis, Adrian,
Maskill, Ellen,
McDonald, Jason,
Millard, Kenneth,
Mills, Stephen F.,
Munslow, Alun,
Ralph, James,
Ryan, David,
Sadler, David,
Scott, Ian,
Shain, Yossi,
Spindler, Michael,
Stoakes, Geoff,
Varvogli, Aliki,
Wells, Paul,
Woolf, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1996
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Notes on Contributors --   |t Representing and Imagining America --   |t Part I Imagining the Foundations --   |t 1. Imagining the Nation: The Frontier Thesis and the Creating of America --   |t 2. Imagining the Frontier --   |t 3. The Magic Kingdom: Europe in the American Mind --   |t 4. America Imagines Itself in its National Holidays: Collective Memories of the Founding Fathers --   |t Part II Representing Regions and Ethnicity --   |t 5. Folklore and American Democratic Literature --   |t 6. Not Letting the Side Down: Negotiating Cultural Differences in White Readings of Affo-American Literature --   |t 7. Scarlett, Rhett and the Wild Frontier --   |t 8. Conceptual Metaphors for American Ethnic Formations --   |t 9. Contradictory Southerner: Sam Ervin Confronts Multicultural America --   |t 10. The Foreign Policy Role of US Diasporas and its Domestic Consequences --   |t Part III Imagining Modem America: Living on the Edge --   |t 11 They Don’t Have a Name for What He Is’: Serial Killer Culture --   |t 12. Textualizing the Margins: Recuperating Alienation in American Crime Fiction --   |t 13 Urban Reality and the Metafictional Novel --   |t Part IV Representing America to the World --   |t 14 Comic Schemes and American Dreams: Preston Sturges and Hollywood --   |t 15. Counterfeit Yanks: War, Austerity and Britain’s American Dream --   |t 16. Barnett Newman, Abstract Expressionism and American Cultural Conventions --   |t 17. Representing the Company: The Rise of the Autonomous Corporation with the Loss of the Founding Father --   |t Part V Representing Ideology --   |t 18 US Expansionism: From the Monroe Doctrine to the Open Door --   |t 19. America and Ideology: Roosevelt to Wilson --   |t 20. JFK, Vietnam and the Public Mind --   |t 21. Defending the West: Ideology and US Foreign Policy during the Cold War --   |t Part VI Imagining Democracy --   |t 22 Undemocratic Vistas: Radical Form and Radical Critique in Dos Passos’s U.S.A. --   |t 23. Mr Innocence Goes to Washington: Hollywood and the Mythology of American Politics --   |t 24. Electing America 
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650 0 |a Cinematography. 
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