The Eclipse of Community: An Interpretation of American Studies, Stein Maurice Robert
Автор: Orvell Miles Название: The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community ISBN: 1469617552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469617558 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 31160 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
Автор: Traver Название: Service-Learning at the American Community College ISBN: 1137361700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137361707 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 84580 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges. It discusses outcomes and best practices for all involved, covers both theory and practice, and draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Автор: Deutsch Karl Wolfgang Название: Political Community and the North American Area ISBN: 0691622663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691622668 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 28900 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Can the North Atlantic Area become a "security community"--a community like some other historical groups, in which warfare among members becomes highly improbable? This is the central problem of international organization; it is the problem attacked by this book as part of a larger study of the factors involved in the elimination of war. It compris
Автор: Cherry Название: Faith, Family, And Filipino American Community Life ISBN: 081356204X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813562049 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 25970 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Stephen M. Cherry draws upon a rich set of ethnographic and survey data, collected over a six-year period, to explore the roles that Catholicism and family play in shaping Filipino American community life. From the planning and construction of community centers, to volunteering at health fairs or protesting against abortion, this book illustrates the powerful ways these forces structure and animate not only how first-generation Filipino Americans think and feel about their community, but how they are compelled to engage it over issues deemed important to the sanctity of the family.
Revealing more than intimate accounts of Filipino American lives, Cherry offers a glimpse of the often hidden but vital relationship between religion and community in the lives of new immigrants, and allows speculation on the broader impact of Filipino immigration on the nation. The Filipino American community is the second-largest immigrant community in the United States, and the Philippines is the second-largest source of Catholic immigration to this country. This ground-breaking study outlines how first-generation Filipino Americans have the potential to reshape American Catholicism and are already having an impact on American civic life through the engagement of their faith.
Автор: Glenn Название: Working with the American Community Survey in R ISBN: 3319457713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319457710 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 40270 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book serves as a hands-on guide to the 'acs' R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data. It gathers the most common problems associated with using ACS data and implements functions as a package in the R statistical programming language. The package defines a new 'acs' class object (containing estimates, standard errors, and metadata for tables from the ACS) with methods to deal appropriately with common tasks (e.g., creating and combining subgroups or geographies, automatic fetching of data via the Census API, mathematical operations on estimates, tests of significance, plots of confidence intervals).
Автор: Sobchack, Vivian (professor Of Film Studies, Unive Название: Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film ISBN: 081352492X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813524924 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 26370 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists.
Автор: Dallmann Antje Название: Approaches to American Cultural Studies ISBN: 0415720850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415720854 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 33110 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts.
Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is divided into four thematically-organised sections. The first part delineates the evolution of American Studies over the course of the twentieth century, the second elaborates on how American Studies as a field is positioned within the wider humanities, and the third inspects and deconstructs popular tropes such as myths of the West, the self-made man, Manifest Destiny, and representations of the President of the United States. The fourth part introduces theories of society such as structuralism and deconstruction, queer and transgender theories, border and hemispheric studies, and critical race theory that are particularly influential within American Studies.
This book is supplemented by a companion website offering further material for study (www.routledge.com/cw/dallmann). Specifically designed for use on courses across Europe, it is a clear and engaging introductory text for students of American culture.
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