Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos: Conceptions of the African American West, Michael K. Johnson
Автор: Johnson, Michael K. Название: Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos : ISBN: 1617039284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617039287 Издательство: Amazon Internet Рейтинг: Цена: 25289.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or underrepresented in studies focused only on traditional literary material. The book engages heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local Montana newspapers rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W. C. Handy and Taylor Gordon), who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the ""golden age of western television"" that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a ""postracial"" or ""postsoul"" frontier; Percival Everett's fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; and movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed.
Автор: J.A. Russell; Jos?-Miguel Fern?ndez-Dols; Anthony Название: Everyday Conceptions of Emotion ISBN: 9048145511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048145515 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 48076.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on `Everyday Conceptions of Emotion`, Almagro, Spain, May 3--8, 1994
Описание: The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal case-study and Gaspar Noй's Enter the Void (2009) and Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) as comparative examples, Sarah Balstrup argues that these directors harness the affective properties of film to generate altered states of perception in a manner analogous to religious practice.
Powerful feelings of dissociation and indescribable significance typical of mystical testimony appear in viewer responses to these films, demonstrating the continued sacralisation of such states of mind. In their own way, each film confronts the viewer with an apocalyptic revelation of the impersonal forces of the universe, moving away from personhood and the human narrative, into pure sensation. They present a non-deterministic spiritual truth that can be intuited but not explained, mirroring developments in the religious sphere.
Investigating the relationship between cinematic technique and religious experience, Spiritual Sensationsoffers an alternative approach to the study of religion and film that has been principally focused on narrative symbolism and the dramatisation of values. Spiritual Sensations makes a further contribution to the field by analysing films contextually, considering viewers' subjective responses in light of religious and cultural change.
Описание: This book examines the portrayal of combat and military death in American popular culture, from the flag-raising on Iwo Jima to the war in Iraq, to show how the genres of melodrama, adventure, and horror shape the way Americans feel about war and its core realities of killing and dying.
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