Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range ...
Jonathan Goldman, Aaron Jaffe
Hardcover
266
Ashgate
0754666107
9780754666103
6
In this 2005 book, Aaron Jaffe investigates the relationship between two phenomena that arrived on the historical stage in the first decades of the twentieth century: modernist literature and celebrity culture. Jaffe systematically traces and theorises the deeper dependencies between these two influ...
Aaron Jaffe
Hardcover
262
Cambridge University Press
0521843014
9780521843010
5
In these times, change is not an option. It's an imperative. In plain terms informed by four decades in public service, Aaron Jaffe analyzes how the distancing of the people from their politics, our leaders' penchant for taking the easy way out, and the hyperpartisan, shout-fest culture have yielded...
Aaron Jaffe, Marda Dunsky
Paperback
246
Happy Warrior Press
098517790X
9780985177904
4
A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences―westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus―and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdo...
Paperback
512
Indiana University Press
0253221366
9780253221360
3
They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society’s fringes to wander the sacred halls of the academy, feasting on ...
Hardcover
544
Indiana University Press
0253013828
9780253013828
2
Buffed up to a metallic shine; loose fitting, lopsided, or kludgy; getting in the way or getting lost; collapsing in an explosion of dust caught on the warehouse CCTV. Modern things are going their own ways, and this book attempts to follow them. A course of thought about their comings and goings an...
Aaron Jaffe
Paperback
160
Univ Of Minnesota Press
0816692033
9780816692033
1
Aaron Jaffe
0521843014