Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960, Rob Turner

Автор: Naylor R. T.
Название: Counterfeit Crime: Criminal Profits, Terror Dollars, and Nonsense
ISBN: 0773543465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773543461
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things politicians do to combat them make matters worse - for the public and the public good. He explains how the post-World War II welfare state, with its commitment to building public infrastructure, maintaining social security, and providing accessible education, gave way to the modern executive state, with its focus on guaranteeing corporate welfare, dropping bombs on countries too weak to fight back, and manipulating the thoughts and actions of populations kept in line by the carrot of glitzy toys and the stick of ever-heavier legal sanctions. He dissects how the canons of free-market fundamentalism, backed by the cannons of state power, paved the road toward a soft form of totalitarianism, which march hand in hand with millennial Christianity and a military-security-industrial complex in search for new - mostly imaginary - enemies. Counterfeit Crime is savage in its critique of the political and judicial status quo and outraged at an economy rife with corruption.

Автор: Orvell Miles
Название: The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
ISBN: 1469615363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469615363
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation.