Latent Destinies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latent Destinies write by Patrick O'Donnell. This book was released on 2000-10-27. Latent Destinies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVUses a discussion of contemporary films and literary works to present an understanding of paranoia as a defining element in postmodern late-capitalist structure./div
Latent Destinies
Latent Destinies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latent Destinies write by Patrick O'Donnell. This book was released on 2000-10-27. Latent Destinies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates, the paranoia that has characterized the period has not gone away. Indeed, it is as if—as O’Donnell suggests—this paranoia has been internalized, scattered, and reiterated at a multitude of sites: Oklahoma City, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Bosnia, the White House, the United Nations, and numerous other places. O’Donnell argues that paranoia on the broadly cultural level is essentially a narrative process in which history and postmodern identity are negotiated simultaneously. The result is an erasure of historical temporality—the past and future become the all-consuming, self-aware present. To explain and exemplify this, O’Donnell looks at such books and films as Libra, JFK, The Crying of Lot 49, The Truman Show, Reservoir Dogs, Empire of the Senseless, Oswald’s Tale, The Executioner’s Song, Underworld, The Killer Inside Me, and Groundhog Day. Organized around the topics of nationalism, gender, criminality, and construction of history, Latent Destinies establishes cultural paranoia as consonant with our contradictory need for multiplicity and certainty, for openness and secrecy, and for mobility and historical stability. Demonstrating how imaginative works of novels and films can be used to understand the postmodern historical condition, this book will interest students and scholars of American literature and cultural studies, postmodern theory, and film studies.
Psycho-Sexual
Psycho-Sexual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psycho-Sexual write by David Greven. This book was released on 2013-01-02. Psycho-Sexual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues that Alfred Hitchcock's themes of heterosexual male ambivalence and homoeroticism influence some of the films of directors Brian De Palma, Martin Scorcese and William Friedkin.
Possessing the Past
Possessing the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Possessing the Past write by Lisa Hinrichsen. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Possessing the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in creating a sense of regional distinctiveness, Lisa Hinrichsen brings a wealth of critical scholarship to her consideration of memory and southern literature. Hinrichsen's nuanced readings of a diverse group of southern authors, including William Faulkner, Roberto Fernández, Erna Brodber, Monique Truong, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, offer new ways of conceptualizing memory, place, and history. She unravels southern literature's critical confrontation with the region's history through complex systems of remembrance and erasure, and she traces how fantasy mediates trauma and adjudicates identity. Expansive in its psychoanalytical approach, her work explores issues of law, testimony, and social justice; the role of nostalgic fantasies of gentility at midcentury; the relationship between white empathy and social fantasy; the resemblance of regional patterns of disavowal to national ideologies of forgetting in Vietnam-era fiction; and the impact of contemporary multicultural literature on memory and community. Possessing the Past broadens the theoretical framework used to conceptualize memory and trauma, while grounding traumatic testimony in the specifics of time and place amply offered by southern literature. It provides new readings of an array of southern writers and deepens our understanding of the continuing importance of history, memory, and fantasy in the literature of the U.S. South.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles write by Kevin R. McNamara. This book was released on 2010-05-06. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
