Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy

Steven J Michels

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Sinclair Lewis was one of the most astute observers of American social and political life. Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy is a highly readable ... Lees meer

Popular Culture and Foreign Policy

Umut Yukaruç

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Popular Culture and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey and the Valley of the Wolves: Ambush analyzes Turkish Foreign Policy from an interdisciplinary ... Lees meer

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

Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy

Steven J Michels

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Sinclair Lewis was one of the most astute observers of American social and political life. Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy is a highly readable ... 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

Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes

Andrew Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's best-known works to the work... Lees meer

Short Stories and Political Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This book examines the intersection of fictional narratives and political philosophy, focusing specifically on the use of short stories to teach the c... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including ... 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 applies historical and contemporary political and rhetorical theor... 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

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

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 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 Final Frontier

Joel R Campbell, Gigi Gokcek

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This book examines politics in terms of space fiction, international relations and theory, using the Star Wars and Star Trek television and movie fran... 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

Mad Men

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• For seven seasons, AMC's Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes... Lees meer