The 'serial killer' has become increasingly prevalent in popular culture since the term was coined by Robert Ressler at the FBI in the mid-1970s. Murders and Acqusitions explores the social and political implications of this cultural figure. The collection argues that the often blood-chilling representations of the serial killer and serial killing offered in TV series, films, novels and fan productions function to address contemporary concerns and preoccupations. Focusing on well-known popular culture texts, such as The Wire, Kiss the Girls, Monster, the Saw series, American Psycho, The Strangers, CSI and Dexter, this electic anthology engages with a broad spectrum of cultural theory and performs critical textual analysis to examine the sophisticated ways the serial killer is deployed to mediate and/or work through cultural anxieties and fears.
Автор: LISA M DETORA, Stephanie Mathilde Hilger Название: Bodies in Transitions in the Health Humanities: Representations of Corporeality ISBN: 0815356064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815356066 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. Yet sexual transition is only one possible type of transformation, and this interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its meanings.
Автор: Simpkin David Название: English Aristocracy at War ISBN: 1783271825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783271825 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 26390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A new appraisal of the military careers and activities of soldiers from elite medieval families.
Автор: Schutte Название: Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 ISBN: 1137327790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137327796 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women`s marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.
Автор: N.C. Fleming Название: The Marquess of Londonderry: Aristocracy, Power and Politics in Britain and Ireland ISBN: 1350176338 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350176331 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The decline and fall of the British aristocracy looked headlong and irreversible in the twentieth century yet many grandees tried to preserve their power, wealth and influence by every means - and with some success. There is no better example than the Seventh Marquess of Londonderry whose life from 1878 to 1949 spanned and mirrored the period. The Londonderrys had enjoyed immense wealth in land and minerals in Britain and Ireland for centuries, played leading roles in Parliament and the state, and in an earlier time the Seventh Marquess would have continued in the family tradition of patrician prominence. Drawing upon original state and family papers, N.C. Fleming places the Londonderrys in the context of the history and the political theory of aristocracy and shows the constant struggle - not without success - against marginalisation. The theme runs through Londonderry's career as Conservative MP, on the Irish Viceroy's Council, as a junior minister in Lloyd Geroge's coalition, at the Air Ministry with Trenchard - the 'father of the RAF' - and in the National Government.Perhaps an element of desperation entered in his private business ventures and with contacts with the far Right - all in sharp contrast to past family achievement.
Автор: Cust Richard Название: Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625-1642 ISBN: 1316648508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316648506 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This perspective on the troubled relationship between Charles I and the English aristocracy explores the effectiveness of Charles` efforts to cultivate and strengthen the peerage. It analyses how and why most peers supported the King at the outbreak of civil war, challenging notions of aristocratic decline and `noble revolt`.
Автор: Green Judith A. Название: The Aristocracy of Norman England ISBN: 0521335094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521335096 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 126720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides the first rounded account of the new ruling elite of England in the century after 1066. It focuses on four main themes: land, power, politics, and society (including, specifically, the role of women).
Автор: Kevin Railey Название: Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner ISBN: 0817357270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817357276 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27720.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach - which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world - to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces that surrounded his life, Railey explores the interrelationships between American history and Faulkner’s fiction, between southern history and Faulkner’s subjectivity.
Автор: Wylie Lenz Название: Poverty in American Popular Culture: Essays on Representations, Beliefs and Policy ISBN: 1476664226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476664224 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 56370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores the representation of poverty in film, television, music, photography, painting, illustration and other art forms, with examples ranging from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. They map when, how, and why producers of popular culture represent - or ignore - poverty.
Автор: Uros ?voro Название: Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia ISBN: 113824905X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138249059 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 54090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Beginning with 1970s Socialist Yugoslavia, Uros Cvoro explores the cultural and political paradoxes of turbo-folk. Taking as its starting point turbo-folk`s popularity across national borders, Cvoro analyses key songs and performers in Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia.
Автор: Jodie Matthews Название: The Gypsy Woman: Representations in Literature and Visual Culture ISBN: 1350150665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350150669 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 34840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The exotic and dangerous stereotype of the Gypsy woman formed in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture remains alive today. These contemporary cliches about Gypsy culture - both negative and romanticised - have a long history. In The Gypsy Woman, Jodie Matthews analyses why the representation of female Gypsy figures in print, painting, television series such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and social media sites like Instagram matters so much. Some of these images have been so damaging that they require legal regulation, but Matthews claims that supposedly positive portrayals are just as detrimental by reiterating the same story about Gypsies that have been told since the nineteenth century. Her study makes this book a highly relevant resource for students, teachers and researchers working in literary, cultural, gender and Romani studies.
Автор: Mabilat Название: Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts ISBN: 1138276057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138276055 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 54090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient' on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order to analyse primary source materials, and in conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, thus explores ways in which ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists. Part I, The Musical Stage, discusses elements of the libretti of popular musical stage works in this period, and the occasionally contradictory ways in which 'racial' Others was represented through text and music; a particular focus is the depiction of 'Oriental' women and ideas of sexuality. Through examination of this collection of libretti, the ways in which the writers of these works filter and romanticize the changing intellectual ideas of this era are explored. Part II, Works of Fiction, is a close study of the works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard, using other examples of popular fiction by his contemporary writers as contextualizing material, with the primary concern being to investigate how music is utilized in popular fiction to represent Other non-Europeans and in the creation of orientalized gender constructions. Part III, Visual Culture, is an analysis of images of music and the 'Orient' in examples of British 'high art', illustration and photography, investigating how the musical Other was visualized.
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