The co. Today, while it may still be an essential concept in Islamic cultures, in the West, honor has been disparaged and dismissed as obsolete. In this lively and authoritative book, James Bowman traces the curious and fascinating history of this ideal, from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment and to the killing fields of World War I and the despair of Vietnam.
Bowman reminds us that the fate of honor and the fate of morality and even manners are deeply interrelated. As a prolific performer of western folk songs and country-western music, Autry gained popularity in the s by developing a persona that appealed to rural, small-town, and newly urban fans. It was during this same time, Duchemin explains, that Autry threw his support behind the thirty-second president of the United States.
Autry responded by promoting Americanism, war preparedness, and friendly relations with Latin America. New Deal Cowboy enhances our understanding of Gene Autry as a western folk hero who, during critical times of economic recovery and international crisis, readily assumed the role of public diplomat, skillfully using his talents to persuade a marginalize. This is achieved through examination of the respective fan communities, business practices, and universality of the characters.
This work locates and understands the aspects of translation and adaptation that inform the spread of culture that have as yet been underexplored in the context of comic books. It represents a large-scale attempt to incorporate adaptation and translation studies into comics studies, through a lens of fan studies used to examine both the American and German fan communities, as well as the work of Don Rosa.
This work builds on the efforts of other scholars, including Janet Wasko and Illaria Meloni, while expanding the historical understanding of what might be the worlds best-selling comics. His areas of study include American Studies, Intercultural Communications, and 21st Century American culture, emphasizing comic art and fan communities. These nostalgic narratives obscure many other histories of postwar childhood, one of which has more in common with the war years and the sixties, when children were mobilized and politicized by the U.
Children battled communism in its various guises on television, the movies, and comic books; they practiced safety drills, joined civil preparedness groups, and helped to build and stock bomb shelters in the backyard.
Author : William W. Author : Alex Lubin Publisher: Univ. Author : Michael A. Author : Steven M. Author : Victoria M. Author : Matthew J. The raw ethnic material of Pryor's short-lived television show led to a series of African-American sitcoms in the s that presented common American experiences—from family life to college life—with black casts.
Mainstream entertainment has often co-opted and sanitized fringe amusements in an ongoing process of redefining the cultural center and its boundaries.
Social control and respectability vied with the bold, erotic, sensational, and surprising, as entrepreneurs sought to manipulate the vagaries of the market, control shifting public appetites, and capitalize on campaigns to protect public morals.
Rock 'n Roll was one such fringe culture; in the s, Elvis blurred gender norms with his androgynous style and challenged conventions of public decency with his sexually-charged performances.
By the end of the s, Bob Dylan introduced the social consciousness of folk music into the rock scene, and The Beatles embraced hippie counter-culture. Don McLean's anthem "American Pie" served as an epitaph for rock's political core, which had been replaced by the spectacle of hard rock acts such as Kiss and Alice Cooper. While Rock 'n Roll did not lose its ability to shock, in less than three decades it became part of the established order that it had originally sought to challenge.
With Amusement for All provides the context to what Americans have done for fun since , showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships between social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the way in which the entertainment world has reflected, refracted, or reinforced the values those forces represent in America. The refusal of ten members of the film industry to answer the question in led to the decision by studio bosses to fire them and never to hire known Communists in the future.
The Hearings led to scores of actors, writers and directors being named as Communists or sympathisers. All were blacklisted and fired. Hollywood's Blacklists is a history of the political and cultural factors relevant to understanding the why and the how of the various investigations of the alleged Communist infiltration of Hollywood.
What was HUAC? What values were at stake in the confrontation between Left and Right that saw the former so resoundingly defeated and expelled from Hollywood? Answers to these and other questions are offered via analyses of the motives of the various players and of the tactics deployed by HUAC to reward collaboration and punish dissent.
Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance. Skip to content. Commies Cowboys and Jungle Queens. Author : William W. Wolf Women and Phantom Ladies. Romance and Rights. Author : Alex Lubin Publsiher : Univ.
Romance and Rights Book Review:. Native Americans in Comic Books. Author : Michael A. Media Representations of September Author : Steven M. Chermak,Steven Chermak,Frankie Y. Media Representations of September 11 Book Review:. Honor Book Review:. They treated such issues as the atomic and hydrogen bombs, communism, and the Korean War, and they offered heroes and heroines to deal with these problems. Using five representative cartoon stories, historian William Savage looks at.
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