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Eric Guthey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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management studies Cultural Criticism and american dreams
2005Co-Authors: Eric GutheyAbstract:reported that the ownerof a local insulation factory fired a line worker because she had refused to removea John Kerry Democratic presidential campaign sticker from the rear window ofher Chevrolet Lumina as it stood in the parking lot. Owner Philip Geddis had previously distributed pro-Republican leaflets extolling the benefits of PresidentGeorge Bush’s tax cuts in employees’ pay envelopes, and he reportedly told theemployee with the campaign sticker, Lynne Gobbell, that she either had to workfor him or for John Kerry. Remarked Gobbell, ‘It upset me and made me madthat he could put a letter in my check expressing his (political) opinion, but I can’tput something on my car expressing mine’.
Richard Wolin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the terms of Cultural Criticism the frankfurt school existentialism poststructuralism
1995Co-Authors: Robert C Holub, Richard WolinAbstract:Despite their differences in origin, the three influential schools of twentieth-century continental Cultural Criticism--the Frankfurt School, existentialism, and poststructuralism--have long been treated as an ensemble and with critical hesitancy. Examining these schools as responses to the apparent collapse of Western civilization in the twentieth-century and as formidable intellectual challenges to the Cultural legacies of the Enlightenment, this book provides a productive base for Criticism and broadens our understanding of their histories and reception.
Michael Kammen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the lively arts gilbert seldes and the transformation of Cultural Criticism in the united states
1997Co-Authors: Michael KammenAbstract:He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald--and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he had played a leading role in the "liquidation of genteel culture in America." Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters. Equally important, Kammen uses Seldes's life as a lens through which to bring into sharp focus the dramatic shifts in American culture that occurred in the half-century after World War I. Born in 1893, Seldes saw in his lifetime an astonishing series of innovations in popular and mass culture: silent films and talkies, the phonograph and the radio, the coming of television, and the proliferation of journalism aimed at mainstream America in such venues as Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. (His monthly column in Esquire was called "The Lively Arts.") Seldes was more than a witness to these changes, however; he was the leading champion of popular culture in his time, and a skilled practitioner as well. Kammen, the first scholar to enjoy access to Seldes's unpublished papers, illuminates his immense influence as the earliest Cultural critic to insist that the lively arts--vaudeville, musical revues, film, jazz, and the comics--should be taken just as seriously as grand opera, the legitimate theatre, and other manifestations of high culture. As he traces Seldes's remarkable evolution from an acknowledged aesthete and highbrow to a Cultural democrat with a passion for the popular arts, Kammen recaptures the critic's prescience, wit, and generosity for a newly expanded audience. We witness Seldes's triumphs and travails as managing editor of The Dial, the most influential literary magazine of its time, and read of New York's endlessly feuding publications and literary rivalries. Kammen offers wonderfully detailed accounts of The Dial's introduction of "The Wasteland" in its November 1922 issue; Seldes's review of Ulysses for The Nation, one of the first (if not the very first) to appear in the U.S.; and the complete story of the writing, publication, and critical reception of The Seven Lively Arts, Seldes's most influential book. And Kammen also covers Seldes's astonishingly versatile later career as a freelance writer (on every conceivable subject), historian, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, radio scriptwriter, the first program director for CBS Television, and the founding dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. One of popular culture's earliest and most eloquent champions, Seldes was nonetheless publicly worried as early as 1937 that the popularity of radio, film, and television would mean the demise of the "private art of reading." By 1957 he was warning that "with the shift of all entertainment into the area of big business, we are being engulfed into a mass-produced mediocrity." At a time when many thoughtful Americans despair of popular culture, The Lively Arts revisits the opening salvos in the ongoing debate over "democratization" versus "dumbing down" of the arts. It offers a penetrating and timely analysis of Gilbert Seldes's pioneering conviction that the popular and the great arts must not only co-exist but enrich one another if we are to realize the innovation and intensity of American culture at its best.
Robert Eaglestone - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the future of trauma theory contemporary literary and Cultural Criticism
2014Co-Authors: Gert Buelens, Samuel Durrant, Robert EaglestoneAbstract:Knowledge, "afterwardsness" and the future of trauma theory / Robert Eaglestone -- Fascism and the sacred: sites of inquiry after (or along with) trauma / Dominick Lacapra -- Beyond eurocentrism: trauma theory in the global age / Stef Craps -- Affect, body, place: trauma theory in the world / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Trauma ties: Chiasmus and community in Lebanese civil war literature / Nouri Gana -- The end of trauma theory, or on not seeking protection from external stimuli / Sam Durrant -- That which you are denying us: refugees, rights and writing in Arendt / Lyndsey Stonebridge -- Time, personhood, politics -- /Jenny Edkins -- The biopolitics of trauma / Pieter Vermeulen -- Future shock: science fiction and the trauma paradigm / Roger Luckhurst.
Janet Wolff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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resident alien feminist Cultural Criticism
1995Co-Authors: Janet WolffAbstract:List of Plates. 1. The Female Stranger: Marginality and Modes of Writing. 2. Eddie Cochran, Donna Anna and the Dark Sister: Personal Experience and Cultural History. 3. Memoirs and Micrologies: Walter Benjamin, Feminism and Cultural Analysis. 4. Death and the Maiden: Does Semiotics Justify Murder? 5. Dance Criticism: Feminism, Theory and Choreography. 6. The Artist and The Flaneur: Rodin, Rilke and Gwen John in Paris. 7. On the Road Again: Metaphors of Travel in Cultural Criticism. 8. Angry Young Men and Minor (Female) Characters: The Idea of +ACI-America+ACI- in 1950s Popular Culture. Index.
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on the road again metaphors of travel in Cultural Criticism
1993Co-Authors: Janet WolffAbstract:Theory is a product of displacement, comparison, a certain distance. To theorize, one leaves home (Clifford, 1989: 177). A model of political culture appropriate to our own situation will necessarily have to raise spatial issues as its fundamental organizing concern. I will therefore provisionally define the aesthetic of such new (and hypothetical) Cultural form as an aesthetic of cognitive mapping (Jameson, 1984: 89). While it is important to recognize the specific power of intellectual practices, they cannot be separated from our existence as nomadic subjects in everyday life… Cultural critics are co-travelers. (Grossberg, 1988: 388–9)