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21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Marko Kölbl
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Fritz Trümpi
(eds.)
Music and Democracy
Participatory Approaches
This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.
Pina Bausch's Dance Theater
Company, Artistic Practices and Reception
An extensive analysis of Pina Bausch's oeuvre including the development of a praxeology of translation as a key concept for dance and art theory.
Poetic Resurrection
The Bronx in American Popular Culture
What role played popular culture in the urban transformation processes of The Bronx in the 20th and 21st centuries?
Female Identities in Lesbian Web Series
Transnational Community Building in Anglo-, Hispano-, and Francophone Contexts
Lesbian web series narrate female-centered stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers.
Günter Leypoldt
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Manfred Berg
(eds.)
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
Home/Fronts
Contemporary War in British Literature, Drama, and Film
An analytical survey of contemporary war narratives in British Literature, Drama, Film, and Television.
Cultures of Economy in South-Eastern Europe
Spotlights and Perspectives
Economics in literature, film, and art as well as public discourse in Yugoslavia from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the socialist and post-socialist periods.
Family in Crisis?
Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives
Interdisciplinary and transnational analyses of a broad variety of cultural texts highlighting today's families and their lived realities.