View All Book Series

BOOK SERIES


Studies in American Popular History and Culture


65 Series Titles

Per Page
Sort

Display
The Factory Girl and the Seamstress Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction

The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction

1st Edition

By Amal Amireh
August 12, 2015

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with ...

African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s Pens of Fire

African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s: Pens of Fire

1st Edition

By Sandra Hollin Flowers
March 01, 1996

Bringing together political theory and literary works, this study recreates the political climate which made the 1960s an unforgettable era for young black Americans. A chapter on The Many Shades of Black Nationalism, for instance, explains: why black nationalism is known by more than a dozen ...

Film and the Nuclear Age Representing Cultural Anxiety

Film and the Nuclear Age: Representing Cultural Anxiety

1st Edition

By Toni A. Perrine
December 04, 2018

Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature nuclear issues most often simplify and ...

Public Lives, Private Virtues Images of American Revolutionary War Heroes, 1782-1832

Public Lives, Private Virtues: Images of American Revolutionary War Heroes, 1782-1832

1st Edition

By Christopher Harris
May 13, 2016

Public Lives, Private Virtues surveys portraits of American Revolutionary heroes in books, magazines, and school texts from 1782 to 1832 and relates these sketches to cultural changes of the period. Faced with rapid and sometimes unsettling change, historians, biographers, and editors of period ...

First Do No Harm Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles

First Do No Harm: Empathy and the Writing of Medical Journal Articles

1st Edition

By Mary Ellen Knatterud
December 04, 2018

First Do No Harm is an interdisciplinary study examining how various members of academic physicians have constructed certain images of patients on paper over time. The study pays special attention to the classical concept of pathos, or its modern equivalent, empathy....

Crime and the Nation Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800

Crime and the Nation: Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800

1st Edition

By Peter Okun
August 19, 2015

Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind ...

Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860

Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860

1st Edition

By Zoe Desti-Demanti
August 14, 2015

First published in 1999. Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women, there is evidence that a feminist tradition rooted deep in the nationalistic and democratic impulses of the American nation existed more than a ...

Hollywood's Frontier Captives Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film

Hollywood's Frontier Captives: Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film

1st Edition

By Barbara A. Mortimer
July 21, 2016

The captivity narrative, the earliest genre of American popular literature, continues to be of cultural significance in late 20th-century Hollywood. Many popular films of the last four decades incorporate the most common elements of the captivity narrative tradition, including a politically ...

Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports Heroes, Race, and Gender

Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports: Heroes, Race, and Gender

1st Edition

By Deborah V. Tudor
September 01, 1997

This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and gender in films and other media. Analysis of the ways in which broadcast media and films create such images allows us to map the ...

Race-ing Masculinity Identity in Contemporary U.S. Writings

Race-ing Masculinity: Identity in Contemporary U.S. Writings

1st Edition

By John Christopher Cunningham
July 29, 2016

This study explores the intersection of race and gender identity in writings by contemporary American men of color, showing how ostensibly sexist or homophobic texts coexist with or are engendered by articulations of anti-racism. Conversely, certain articulations of gender concerns produce ...

Studies in the Land The Northeast Corner

Studies in the Land: The Northeast Corner

1st Edition

By David Smith
August 26, 2016

Drawing on primary documents such as farmer's diaries, small rural papers of the 19th century, and the publications of state agricultural societies, this provocative study presents an intelligent overview into the driving forces of that shaped American history in the Northeast....

Understanding Elvis Southern Roots vs. Star Image

Understanding Elvis: Southern Roots vs. Star Image

1st Edition

By Susan M. Doll
February 27, 2017

Although the importance of Elvis Presley's Southern heritage has long been recognized, few have considered the complex connection between the performer's career and his Southern roots. This study investigates how that identity affected each stage of Presley's career. Elvis Presley's career can be ...

1-12 of 65
AJAX loader