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
• This book argues that, as a popular text, the Turkish television series Valley of the Wolves: Ambush functions as a site for consent production for fo... Lees meer

Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer

Brian A Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Walker Percy is one of America's great novelists, and he ought to be known as a political thinker as well. In Walker Percy and the Politics of the Way... Lees meer

Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy

Steven J Michels

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• This book examines each of Lewis's novels on key themes in the history of political thought and democracy, including freedom and purpose, success and ... 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
• Inspired and in honor of the work of noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols, the essays in this volume explore political ideas and implications in a... 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

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

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

Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda

Jay Douglas Steinmetz

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• In Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907-1927, Jay Douglas Steinmetz provides an original and detailed accou... 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

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

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

Rabelais's Contempt for Fortune

Timothy Haglund

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Francois Rabelais wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel at the height of the Renaissance, when top-caliber thinkers aimed to unite the best of freshly redisc... 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

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

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

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 Political Christopher Nolan

Jesse Russell

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Many of Christopher Nolan's films ironically both embrace the tradition of surrealist and Avant-Garde filmmaking while simultaneously providing (at le... Lees meer

Popular Culture and the Political Values of Neoliberalism

George A Gonzalez

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics, Literature, & Film
• Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere. C... 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

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

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