Similar titles: Cultural Critique

Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism: The Spanish Golden Age Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism The Spanish Golden Age Antonio Gomez-Moriana 1993 Spring
Gómez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazirillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina’s Don Juan play, and Columbus’s Diary. “Gómez-Moriana’s skillful handling of literary theory is matched by his thorough scholarship and excellent knowledge of history.” --Nicholas Spadaccini
Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History Ruthless Criticism New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, Editors 1993 Spring
The Phantom Public Sphere The Phantom Public Sphere Bruce Robbins, Editor 1993 Spring
In a postmodern society, can we still speak meaningfully of a public sphere? The contributors address this question by presenting the public sphere and the public/private opposition as a truly interdisciplinary field of inquiry. Among the issues discussed are Jesse Helms’s censorship campaign and the televised Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Senate hearings.
Clint Eastwood: A Cultural Production Clint Eastwood A Cultural Production Paul Smith 1993 Spring
Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics Ecstasy Unlimited On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics Laura Kipnis 1993 Spring
A unique collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of Kipnis’ videotapes.
Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry Couching Resistance Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry Janet Walker 1993 Spring
Explores how American psychoanalytic psychiatry and Hollywood cinema between World War II and the mid-1960s negotiated women’s psychosexuality and life experience.
Male Trouble Male Trouble Constance Penley and Sharon Willis, Editors 1992 Fall
The contributors provide a thought-provoking, comprehensive study of masculinity in American culture today. Contributors: Parveen Adams, Ian Balfour, Ray Barrie, Sabrina Barton, Steven Cohan, Rey Chow, Alexander Doty, Henry Jenkins III, Lynne Kirby, Constance Penley, Kaja Silverman, Sasha Torres, and Sharon Willis.
Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War Framing History The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War Virginia Carmichael 1992 Fall
After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture After Jews and Arabs Remaking Levantine Culture Ammiel Alcalay 1992 Fall
“Painstakingly, brick by brick, he has reconstructed a shared literary and historical tradition that has linked Arab and Oriental Jewish thought for the better part of a millennium.” --Victor Perera
Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture Dancing in the Distraction Factory Music Television and Popular Culture Andrew Goodwin 1992 Fall
This first comprehensive, integrated analysis of MTV provides new ways to understand television and popular music narratives. ”A smart book: it will have an impact on the debates surrounding popular culture.” --Susan McClary
Reading the Body Politic: Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers Reading the Body Politic Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers Amy K. Kaminsky 1992 Fall
Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.
Chicanos and Film: Representation and Resistance Chicanos and Film Representation and Resistance Chon A. Noriega 1992 Fall
Through the Shattering Glass: Cervantes and the Self-Made World Through the Shattering Glass Cervantes and the Self-Made World Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens 1992 Fall
“Offers an important new approach to Cervantes’s works, which have been studied in toto by relatively few critics.” --Edward Friedman
Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus Rene Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, Editors 1992 Fall
“Offers a well-informed and academically creative reading of texts which foster the so-called colonial imaginary in relation to Spanish and Portuguese colonial enterprises in the Americas.” --Guido A. Podesta
On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture On Edge The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture George Yúdice, Jean Franco and Juan Flores, Editors 1992 Spring
“On Edge is where the reader will be, anxiously at the margins of Latin America’s elite centers, throughout this excellent collection of essays on cultural and political innovations. It is a most welcome hands-on guide to some of the post-modern challenges to projects of national modernization, a cultural analogue to studies of new political movements.” --Doris Sommer