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| Author | : James D. Stone |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2017-10-20 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1476625565 |
As the British watched their empire crumble and the United States became the dominant world power, many British films warned of the dangers posed by American culture. Americans were frequently portrayed as disconcertingly ambitious, reckless and irreverent. Yet the same films that depicted the U.S. as an agent of chaos also suggested Britons might do well to embrace American-style energy and egalitarianism. Movies like Love Actually, The Quatermass Xperiment, 28 Weeks Later, Local Hero and Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent have delved into the storied "special relationship" between the U.S. and U.K. These films and many more examined in this first book-length study of British movies about America, reveal much about British attitudes regarding power, gender, class, sexuality and emotion.
| Author | : Emma Macleod |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2015-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317315855 |
Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. Macleod incorporates British writers of conservative, liberal and radical views.
| Author | : Ken Young |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2016-07-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1526100665 |
This study tells the story of the strategic nuclear forces deployed to England by the United States from the late 1940s, and details the secret agreement made to launch atomic strikes against the USSR. Drawing on more than a decade's research in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, hitherto unknown aspects of Cold War history are revealed. The book deals with the United States Air Force's (USAF) relations with their British hosts as well as tensions between the American commands, with the continuous struggle to develop and safeguard the expanding base network and with the losing battle to provide the deployed bomber forces with an adequate air defence. This challenging analysis, based on massive archival sources, will provoke and stimulate Cold War historians and air power enthusiasts alike, and be read by those many veterans who served in the units of Strategic Air Command and the USAF in Europe, during that brief but dangerous period of nuclear history.
| Author | : Peter O'Connor |
| Publisher | : LSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2017-11-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807168165 |
Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832–1863 provides a corrective to simplified interpretations of British attitudes towards the US during the antebellum and early Civil War periods. It explores the many complexities of transatlantic politics and culture and examines developing British ideas about US sectionalism, from the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina (1832/1883) through to the Civil War. It also demonstrates how these pre-war engagements with the US influenced popular British responses to the outbreak of the Civil War.
| Author | : Julia Straub |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2016-05-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110376733 |
Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of ‘influence,’ transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times. This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.
| Author | : Stephen John Hornsby |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781584654278 |
A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.
| Author | : Aurelian Cr_iu_u |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0271033908 |
"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Claudia Nelson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2016-04-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317065972 |
Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections highlight the differences between and overlapping concerns of Chinese and American scholars, as they examine children’s literature with respect to cultural metaphors and motifs, historical movements, authorship, didacticism, important themes, and the current status of and future directions for literature and criticism. Wide-ranging and admirably ambitious in its encouragement of communication between scholars from two major nations, Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children’s Literature serves as a model for examining how and why children’s literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.
| Author | : Michael Winterbottom |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2021-10-07 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1839023414 |
Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those who control the purse strings also determine a film's content and even its message? Writing as the director of award-winning feature films including Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People and The Road to Guantanamo as well as the hugely popular The Trip series, Michael Winterbottom provides an insider's view of the workings of international film funding and distribution, revealing how the studios that fund film production and control distribution networks also work against a sustainable independent film culture and limit innovation in filmmaking style and content. In addition to reflecting upon his own filmmaking career, featuring critical and commercial successes alongside a 'very long list' of films that didn't get made, Winterbottom also interviews leading contemporary filmmakers including Lynne Ramsay, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg about their filmmaking practice. The book closes with a vision of how the contemporary filmmaking landscape could be reformed for the better with fairer funding and payment practices allowing for a more innovative and sustainable 21st century industry.
| Author | : Sören Schoppmeier |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2023-06-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3111317986 |
