16 May 2009
From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film (Paperback)
From Library Journal
Mass media representations of the Vietnam War both reflect and impact upon public perceptions and assessments of U.S. history. Editors Dittmar (English, Univ. of Massachusetts) and Michaud (media coordinator, Univ. of Mass...
13 May 2009
He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies (Hardcover)
From Library Journal
Clum’s (drama & English, Duke) latest does for movies what his earlier Something for the Boys did for theater: it gives readers a definitive treatment of how a popular form represents gay men and, more genera...
12 May 2009
FROM HARLEM TO PARIS: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
This plodding, academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers–Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.–to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than...
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