America First: Naming the Nation in US Film - Image 1

£87.80

Routledge America First: Naming the Nation in US Film

Name: America First: Naming the Nation in US Film
Brand: Routledge
Price: 87.8 GBP
Availability: InStock

Genres

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£88 today · previous high £88 · all-time low £83

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 68 days · 68 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 68 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £88 (54 days, 79.4%)

Price range: £83 - £88

Price levels: 2 different prices over 68 days

Description

At a time when the expanded projection of US political, military, economic and cultural power draws intensified global concern, understanding how that country understands itself seems more important than ever. This collection of new critical essays tackles this old problem in a new way, by examining some of the hundreds of US films that announce themselves as titularly 'American'. From early travelogues to contemporary comedies, national nomination has been an abiding characteristic of American motion pictures, heading the work of Porter, Guy-Blaché, DeMille, Capra, Sternberg, Vidor, Minnelli and Mankiewicz. More recently, George Lucas, Paul Schrader, John Landis and Edward James Olmos have made their own contributions to Hollywood’s Americana. What does this national branding signify? Which versions of Americanism are valorized, and which marginalized or excluded? Out of which social and historical contexts do they emerge, and for and by whom are they constructed? Edited by Mandy Merck, the collection contains detailed analyses of such films as The Vanishing American, American Madness, An American in Paris, American Graffiti, American Gigolo, American Pie and many more. About the Author Mandy Merck is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Perversions: Deviant Readings (1993), In Your Face: Nine Sexual Studies (2000) and Hollywood's American Tragedies (forthcoming 2007). She is editor of After Diana (1998) and co-editor of Coming Out of Feminism (1998) and The Art of Tracey Emin (2002).

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415374952
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > Genres
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 March 2007
Listed Since: 08 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge America First: Naming the Nation in US Film

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

America in Literature and Film: Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations

Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U): Americanization and Popular Culture (Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Contemporary American Literature

Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U): Americanization and Popular Culture (Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan: 2 (Explorations in Culture and International History, 2)

American Eccentric Cinema

Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich's America (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

Routledge Amateur Media and Participatory Cultures Book

Women, Method Acting, and the Hollywood Film

Hollywood Independent: How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema

Immaterial Culture: Literature, Drama and the American Radio Play, 1929–1954: 29 (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts)

Right On?: Political Change and Continuity in George W. Bush's America

Rock and Roll (American Popular Music)

Adaptation and the New Art Film: Remaking the Classics in the Twilight of Cinema (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture)

American Visual Culture: 0

Routledge - Not All Claps and Cheers: Humor in Business

Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists

Robert Frank: Mary’s Book

Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World

Country (American Popular Music)

Growing Up with America: Youth, Myth, and National Identity, 1945 to Present

Images of America: A Political, Industrial and Social Portrait

American Studies: The Basics: The Basics