9/11 Culture: America Under Construction - Brossura

Melnick, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 1405173718 ISBN 13: 9781405173711

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Riassunto

9/11 Culture serves as a timely and accessible introduction to the complexities of American culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

• Gives balanced examinations of a broad catalogue of artifacts from film, music, photography, literary fiction, and other popular arts
• Investigates the ways that 9/11 has exerted a shaping force on a wide range of practices, from the politics of femininity to the poetics of redemption
• Includes pedagogical material to assist understanding and teaching, including film and discographies, and a useful teachers' preface

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Recensione:

His remains an invaluable achievement, for its nuanced attention to such a broad range of materials, for its overall clarity of focus and for its welcome readability. (M/C Reviews, May 2010)

The book can serve as an excellent primary text assigned to students taken courses related to the same field. ( Southwest Journal of Cultures, 2009)

 

L'autore:

Jeffrey Melnick is Associate Professor of American Studies at Babson College. He is author of two books on Black-Jewish relations: A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song (1999) and Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South (2000). Melnick is an active public speaker has appeared many times on local and national radio and television.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1405173718
• ISBN 13: 9781405173711
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 200