Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer

Brian A Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer is the first sustained treatment of Percy as a political thinker. The book argues that Percy provides a ... Lees meer

Between Science and Society

Douglas A Van Belle

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• In Between Science and Society: Charting the Space of Science Fiction, Douglas A. Van Belle uses interviews with 24 science fiction authors to analyze... Lees meer

Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This volume presents a series of essays in honor of noted scholar of political theory, Mary P. Nichols. The essays reflect Nichols' pathbreaking work ... Lees meer

Short Stories and Political Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion explores the relationship between fictional short stories and the classic works o... Lees meer

Theology and Geometry

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Too... Lees meer

Flattering the Demos

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This volume brings together reflections on the relationship between politics and storytelling, especially within the democratic context. Examples are ... Lees meer

Rabelais's Contempt for Fortune

Timothy Haglund

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Although he writes in a different genre than most other political thinkers, Francois Rabelais's contribution to political philosophy carries weight be... Lees meer

Between Empire and Republic

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This book uses literature to explain why pre-Confederation Canadians did not want to become Americans. The author argues that the perceived cultural d... Lees meer

Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda

Jay Douglas Steinmetz

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This history of the early American film industry identifies key political aspects in the rise of the classical Hollywood system. It uniquely identifie... Lees meer

Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Sometimes called the "literature of ideas," science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction's focus on technol... Lees meer

Why Moralize upon It?

Brian Danoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared that "the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate." The central claim of Why Moralize upon It? is that ... Lees meer

The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion

Üner Daglier

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Decades after its publication, Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses remains much talked about and little understood. The Unknown Sa... Lees meer

Age of Anxiety

Anthony M Wachs, Jon D Schaff

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety res... Lees meer

Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism

George A Gonzalez

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Reality is made up of absolute and casualty ideals. This book analyzes the lower aspects of absolute ideals that result in personal and social dysfunc... Lees meer

The Final Frontier

Joel R Campbell, Gigi Gokcek

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• The proposed book uses the Star Trek television/movie and Star Wars movie series to explain key international relations (IR) concepts and theories. It... Lees meer

The United States Constitution in Film

Eric T Kasper, Quentin D Vieregge

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This book analyzes how films have accurately or inaccurately portrayed the powers, rights, and freedoms within the U.S. Constitution, and it also expl... Lees meer

The American Road Trip and American Political Thought

Susan McWilliams Barndt

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Americans love road trips. They love to go on road trips. They love to read about road trips. They love to watch road trip stories unfold on televisio... Lees meer

The Political Christopher Nolan

Jesse Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Throughout his films, Christopher Nolan champions the Anglo-American Neo-Liberal world order. Nestled within this order, his characters are free to un... Lees meer

Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand

Aaron Weinacht

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America argues that the core commitments of the 1860's nihilism made their way to 20t... Lees meer

The Politics of Twin Peaks

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. Dav... Lees meer

Film and Faith

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion... Lees meer

AIDS-Trauma and Politics

Aimee Pozorski

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• AIDS-Trauma and Politics considers American literary representations of the social and political silence surrounding the AIDS crisis in the U.S. in th... Lees meer

The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion

Üner Daglier

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Decades after its publication, Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses remains much talked about and little understood. The Unknown Sa... Lees meer

Age of Anxiety

Anthony M Wachs, Jon D Schaff

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety res... Lees meer