American Obscurantism - Lurie, Peter (Associate Professor of Film, University of Richmond)
66,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Versandkostenfrei*
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
payback
33 °P sammeln
  • Gebundenes Buch

"American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through late twentieth and early twenty-first century film, the most compelling manifestations of America's troubled history have articulated this content through a unique formal and tonal obscurity. Envisioning the formidable darkness attending racial history at nearly every stage of the republic's founding and ongoing devepment, writers such as William Faulkner and Hart Crane or directors like the Coen brothers and Stanley Kubrick present a powerful critique of American…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
"American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through late twentieth and early twenty-first century film, the most compelling manifestations of America's troubled history have articulated this content through a unique formal and tonal obscurity. Envisioning the formidable darkness attending racial history at nearly every stage of the republic's founding and ongoing devepment, writers such as William Faulkner and Hart Crane or directors like the Coen brothers and Stanley Kubrick present a powerful critique of American conquest, southern plantation culture, and western frontier ideology"--
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Autorenporträt
Peter Lurie is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (2004) and of articles on Faulkner, Hart Crane, critical race theory, and the cinema of Richard Linklater. He is the editor, with Ann J. Abadie, of Faulkner and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2010 (2014). In 2015 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Warsaw. Also in 2015 he was Visiting Professor of English at the University of Paris, Diderot. Prior to his position at Richmond he taught Anglo-American Cinema and modern literature as a Fellow at Keble College, Oxford and at Harvard in the History and Literature program.