Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Heidelberg :
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Universitätsverlag Winter,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (341 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
American Studies - A Monograph Series ;
Volume Designation
v. 258
GENERAL NOTES
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CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Table of Content; S.M. HERRMANN, K. KANZLER, S. SCHUBERT -- Introduction: The Poetics of Politics; Film and Television; ANDREW HOBEREK -- Thinking Institutionally: ""Argo, Zero Dark Thirty"", and the Politics of Contemporary Historical Films; FELIX BRINKER -- On the Formal Politics of Narratively Complex Television Series: Operational Self-Reflexivity and Audience Management in ""Fringe"" and ""Homeland; ELEONORA RAVIZZA -- The Politics of Melodrama: Nostalgia, Performance, and Gender Roles in ""Revolutionary Road
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MICHAEL BUTTER -- American Basterds: The Deconstruction of World War II Myths in Steven Soderbergh's ""The Good German"" and Quentin Tarantino's ""Inglourious BasterdsDOROTHEA GAIL, RAY CANOY -- The Last Days of American Civilization: The Poetics of Righteous Violence in Bob Goldthwait's Black Comedy ""God Bless America; Nonfiction; BRUNO ARICH-GERZ -- Poetics of Disaster: Filmic Elements and Traces of Fiction Literature in the ""9/11 Commission Report"": Frames and Functions of a Generic Hybrid
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OLESYA BONDARENKO -- "Inherently Political": Rancièrian Philosophy and Language WritingSABRINA HÜTTNER -- Politics of Dissent: Reconsidering 'the Political' in Tony Kushner's ""Homebody/Kabul; New Media; STEFAN SCHUBERT -- Objectivism, Narrative Agency, and the Politics of Choice in the Video Game ""BioShock; SOPHIE SPIELER -- "Our Everyday Is Better Than Your Best Day": Spectacle and the Politics of Ambiguity on the ""Tumblr"" Blog ""Rich Kids of Instagram; FRANK USBECK -- "The Power of the Story": 'Popular Narratology' in Pentagon Reports on Social Media Use in the Military
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SEBASTIAN M. HERRMANN -- Foggy Realisms? Fiction, Nonfiction, and Political Affect in Larry Beinhart's ""Fog Facts"" and ""The LibrarianCAROLIN ALICE HOFMANN -- Testifying by Proxy: A Trauma Studies Approach to ""The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks; Literature; KATJA KANZLER -- Post-Race Ideology and the Poetics of Genre in David Mamet's ""Race; HANS FRESE -- The Great American Novel and Beyond: Jonathan Franzenand the Legacy of the Culture Wars; ILKA SAAL -- "Just as Good as the Real Thing": ""Historiopoiesis"" in Third-Generation Narratives on Slavery
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Title
Poetics of Politics : Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.
International Standard Book Number
9783825364472
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- 21st century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 21st century-- Political aspects.