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Star Decades Complete 11 Volume Set
The Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an eleven volume set: Movie Stars from the 1910s to the 2010s. Each volume presents original essays that analyze the movie star against the background of American cultural history. As icon, as mediated personality, and as object of audience fascination and desire, the Hollywood star remains the model for celebrity in modern culture, representing a combination of achievement, talent, ability, luck, authenticity, superficiality, and even ordinariness.
Latinas on the Line
Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema
Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema
Erotic Cartographies
Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination
Collision Course
Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America
Carrying On
Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health
Black Space
Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower
Residues
Thinking Through Chemical Environments
Screen Decades Complete 12 Volume Set
The Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an twelve-volume set: American Cinema from the 1890s to the 2010s. Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society. Every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events to provide a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the nation.