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Poetics of Politics
This volume proposes the ‘poetics of politics’ as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a ‘grand epochal transition.’ Sidestepping such a logic of periodization, this book points to the interplay between the textual and the political as a dynamic – always locally specific – that affords unique insights into the characteristics of the contemporary moment. The sixteen case studies in this book explore this interplay across a wide range of media, genres, and modes. Together, they make visible a broad cultural concern with negotiating social relevance and textual self-awareness that permeates and structures contemporary US (popular) culture.
Traumatic Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice
This ebook presents conference proceedings from the 1st Global Conference Trauma: theory and practice, held in Prague, Czech Republic in March 2011.
Contemporary Quality TV
Ever since HBO's slogan "It's Not TV, It's HBO" launched in 1996, so-called quality television has reached a new level of marketing, recognition, and indeed quality. With other networks imitating the formula, the "HBO effect" triggered a wave of creative output. This turn to quality set off two shifts: (a) Contemporary television staged an international resurgence of the auteur, and (b) America transformed into an "on-demand nation." The chapters in this volume analyze new television lifestyles including marginalized perspectives, fan participation, and an emerging nostalgia correlated with trash aesthetics. Saskia M. Fürst is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of The Bahamas. Ralph J. Poole is Professor of American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
Enacting Platforms
An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studies framework itself. In this first scholarly book on the Unreal game engine, James Malazita explores one of the major contemporary game development platforms through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, revealing how Unreal produces, and is produced by, broader intersections of power. Enacting Platforms takes a novel critical platform studies approach, raising deeper questions: what are the material and cultural limits of platforms themselves? What is the relationship between the analyst and the platform of study, and how ...
Warring Over Valor
The end of military heroism? The American Legion and "service" between the Wars / George Lewis -- GI Joe Nisei: The invention of World War II's iconic Japanese American soldier / Ellen D. Wu -- Instrument of subjugation or avenue for liberation? Black military heroism from World War II to the Vietnam War / Simon Wendt -- "Warriors in uniform": Race, masculinity, and martial valor among native American veterans from the Great War to Vietnam and beyond / Matthias Voigt -- My Lai: The crisis of American military heroism in the Vetnam War / Steve Estes -- Leonard Matlovich: From military hero to gay rights poster boy / Simon Hall -- Displaying heroism: Media images of the weary soldier in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War / Amy Lucker -- "From louboutins to combat boots"? The negotiation of a twenty-first-century female warrior image in American popular culture and literature / Sarah Makeschin -- From warrior to soldier? Lakota veterans on military valor / Sonja John -- Virtual warfare: Video games, drones, and the reimagination of heroic -- Masculinity / Carrie Andersen
Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres
This is a book about contemporary American narratives and the audiences they call into being. It brings together eight very diverse case studies covering and investigating a wide range of media, genres, and modes to ask how contemporary ‘texts’ encourage ‘imagined communities’ of readers/viewers that operate as ‘public spheres’ of social and political deliberation, self-fashioning, and debate. The narratives circulating in contemporary culture tend to perform several functions at once. They entertain, inform, educate, and invite readers/viewers to remake them. And when readers/viewers interpret and appropriate the stories circulating in our culture, they tend to act simultaneousl...
Contested Terrain
Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of suburbanization after World War II, and the mortgage defaults and housing foreclosures that precipitated the Great Recession. Moving away from scholarship that highlights the alienating, placeless quality of suburbia, Wilhite argues that we should reimagine suburban literature as part of a long literary tradition of U.S. regional writing that connects the isolation and exclusivity of the domestic realm to the expansionist ideologies of U.S. nationalism and the environmental imperialism of urban sprawl. Wilhite produces new, unexpected readings of works by Sinclair Lewis, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Richard Ford, Jung Yun, and Patrick Flanery. Contested Terrain demonstrates how postwar suburban nation-building ushered in an informal geography that recalibrated notions of national identity, democratic citizenship, and domestic security to the scale of the single-family home.
Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Drama
Das Drama ist eine der relevantesten Strukturen in einer sich globalisierenden und transmedial erweiternden Kultur. In seiner historischen Konstanz wie Wandlungsfähigkeit – vom Dionysostheater bis zur aktuellen Qualitätsserie – bleibt es, trotz performativer Ästhetiken, höchst aktuell. Die Publikation bietet eine umfassende historische wie systematische Darstellung aus literatur- und theaterwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die Verbindung zwischen informierendem Überblick und Ausdifferenzierungen wie Transformationen des Dramas gelegt. Berücksichtigt wird die Integration des Dramas in theatrale Institutionen und deren Produktionsprozesse, ebenso ästhetische Distanzierungen bzw. mediale Reflexionen oder Dekonstruktionen. Neben verschiedenen Dramaturgien und Kontexten wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Zensur, Didaktik oder Psychologie werden postdramatische und außereuropäische Formen behandelt, zudem transdisziplinäre Bezüge zu neueren Medien wie Film, TV-Serie, Computerspiel, Musiktheater und Tanz hergestellt. Dem Band gelingt ein kompakter Überblick, der dem Drama in seiner systematischen wie historischen Komplexität gerecht wird.
Die Regierung der Serie
Serien erfreuen sich immenser Popularität und treiben den Medienwandel vom Fernsehen zum digitalen Streaming voran, kurz: Sie regieren. Zugleich ist für Serien das Modell der Regierung konstitutiv, denn sie lenken ihre Entwicklung, regulieren ihren Fortgang und entwerfen sich als zeitbasierte Steuerungsprozesse. Dominik Maeder analysiert die Kopplung dieser beiden Facetten - das Regieren der Serie und die Serie als Regierung - und stellt heraus: Ihre Popularität erklärt sich nur vor dem Hintergrund jener Steuerungslogiken, die fiktionale wie non-fiktionale Serien ins Werk setzen. Die poetische Signatur der digitalmedialen Transformation der Gegenwart lässt sich damit am Phänomen Serie ablesen.
Color Creates Light
Color Creates Light: Studies with Hans Hofmann brings together the man, the schools, the painting, the ideas, and the teaching. Jed Perl of The New Republic calls this book "enormously important... nothing less than the missing chapter in the history of the period," for Hofmann's decade of painting in Paris prior to World War I, combined with his observations of the masters of all cultures, enabled him to explain Cubism to the avant-garde and catalyzed the later Abstract Expressionism. In the ateliers of German emigrant Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Munich, New York and Provincetown, talented students later to become some of the most significant artists and educators of the time rubbed shoulders with critics, collectors, and curators, who in turn transmitted and transmuted Hofmann⿿s ideas across Europe, America, Canada, and beyond. From how Hofmann taught to what he taught, artists talk shop about the inner workings of the visual language, required reading for those engaged in creative composition, whether visual, verbal, musical, architectural, cinematic, or choreographic.
