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Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: Orb Books
Published: 1994-08-15
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780312890124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the first time in one volume: the collected short fiction of the award-winning author of Red Mars.
Author: Jerome De Groot
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1317436180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker relationships to ‘history’, while also enabling audiences to understand the ways in which the past is written, structured and ordered. Jerome de Groot uses examples from contemporary popular culture to show the relationship between fiction and history in two key ways. Firstly, the texts pedagogically contribute to the historical imaginary and secondly they allow reflection upon how the past is constructed as ‘history’. In doing so, they provide an accessible and engaging means to critique, conceptualize and reject the processes of historical representation. The book looks at the use of the past in fiction from sources including Mad Men, Downton Abbey and Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn, along with the work of directors such as Terence Malick, Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, to show that fictional representations enable a comprehension of the fundamental strangeness of the past and the ways in which this foreign, exotic other is constructed. Drawing from popular films, novels and TV series of recent years, and engaging with key thinkers from Marx to Derrida, Remaking History is a must for all students interested in the meaning that history has for fiction, and vice versa.
Author: Barbara Kruger
Publisher: Discussions in Contemporary Cu
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781565845008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Village Voice Best Book of the Year, this collection of rich and diverse essays by contributors such as Jim Hoberman, Edward Said, and Cornel West, are concerned with imperialism in a variety of forms, ranging from the geographical to the sexual. Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.
Author: RenŽe Ater
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-11-22
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0520262123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
Author: Afsar Mohammad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 100934756X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith evidence from the oral histories of various sections and a wide variety of written sources and historical documents, this book captures an intense moment in the history of the state of Hyderabad and the production its own tools of cultural renaissance and modernity.
Author: Timothy Moss
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0262360896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encompassing democratic, fascist, and socialist regimes.
Author: Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1683691547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Clay McLeod Chapman, “the twenty-first century’s Richard Matheson” (Richard Chizmar), comes an “original and chilling” (Buzzfeed) ghost story that follows the legend of the Witch Girl of Pilot’s Creek as it evolves every twenty years—with haunting results. In the 1930s, Ella Louise and her daughter Jessica are dragged from their home at the outskirts of Pilot’s Creek, Virginia. Ella Louise is accused of witchcraft, and both are burned at the stake. Ella Louise’s burial site is never found, but the little girl has the most famous grave in the South: a steel-reinforced coffin surrounded by a fence of interconnected white crosses. But if the mother was the witch, why was the little girl’s grave so tightly sealed? This question fuels a legend told around a campfire in the 1950s by a man forever marked by his encounters with Jessica. Twenty years later, a boy at that campfire will cast Amber Pendleton as Jessica in a ’70s horror movie inspired by the ghost story. Amber’s experiences on the set and its ’90s remake will ripple through pop culture, ruining her life and career after she becomes the target of a witch hunt. Now, Amber’s best chance to break the cycle of horror comes when a popular true-crime investigator tracks her down for an interview. But will this final act of storytelling redeem her—or will it bring the story full circle, ready to be told once again?
Author: Julia Adams
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005-02
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780822333630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVA sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, trans/div
Author: Brian Attebery
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0199316074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales.
Author: Anthony N. Penna
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0822943816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemaking Boston chronicles many of the events that altered the physical landscape of Boston, while also offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the environmental history of one of America's oldest and largest metropolitan areas.
