Alan Nadel is professor of literature and film at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon; Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age; and Flatlining in the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan’s America.
9 Ebooks por Alan Nadel
Susan M. Griffin & Alan Nadel: Men Who Knew Too Much
Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of doubl …
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Susan M. Griffin & Alan Nadel: Men Who Knew Too Much
Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they approached American and European society as inside-outsiders, a position that afforded them a kind of doubl …
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Professor Alan Nadel: The Theatre of August Wilson
The first comprehensive study of August Wilson”s drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson”s ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century. …
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€25.47
Alan Nadel: Containment Culture
Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American p …
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Alan Nadel: Demographic Angst
Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of …
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€52.65
Alan Nadel: Invisible Criticism
In 1952 Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for his Kafkaesque and claustrophobic novel about the life of a nameless young black man in New York City. Although Invisible Man has remained the on …
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€27.09
Alan Nadel: May All Your Fences Have Gates
This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major pla …
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€38.35
Alan Nadel: August Wilson
Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade …
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€38.34
Alan Nadel: Television in Black-and-White America
Alan Nadel’s provocative new book reminds us that most of the images on early TV were decidedly Caucasian and directed at predominantly white audiences. Television did not invent whiteness for Americ …
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