[PDF] America Through A British Lens eBook

Author : James D. Stone
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476625565

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As the British watched their empire crumble and the United States became the dominant world power, many British films warned of the dangers posed by American culture. Americans were frequently portrayed as disconcertingly ambitious, reckless and irreverent. Yet the same films that depicted the U.S. as an agent of chaos also suggested Britons might do well to embrace American-style energy and egalitarianism. Movies like Love Actually, The Quatermass Xperiment, 28 Weeks Later, Local Hero and Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent have delved into the storied "special relationship" between the U.S. and U.K. These films and many more examined in this first book-length study of British movies about America, reveal much about British attitudes regarding power, gender, class, sexuality and emotion.

Author : Maya Minhas
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2018-04-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781388531553

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(5x8) like many immigrants, i came to this country with my heart in my hand. eyes open, impatient and wary. capturing people as they are, americanism opens up a space for vulnerability and storytelling. this book curates how america transitions for an immigrant - from a cinematic and idealistic expectation, laced in cliches, to a weighted and conflicted reality, heavy with friction. beginning with a sugar-coated lack of awareness, my experience of america has evolved over the past nine years - growing into an unwavering consciousness of varying realities, the treatment of men of color in public spaces, objectification and underrepresentation of women in academia, unfair standards for marginalized identities, and the othering of global migrants. from the sidelines of being marginalized but privileged, in-between social structures, racial spectrums, religious practices, nationalities and languages, americanism constructs a window into fundamental dialogues of community, culture, and identity.

Author : Claudia Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317065972

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Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections highlight the differences between and overlapping concerns of Chinese and American scholars, as they examine children’s literature with respect to cultural metaphors and motifs, historical movements, authorship, didacticism, important themes, and the current status of and future directions for literature and criticism. Wide-ranging and admirably ambitious in its encouragement of communication between scholars from two major nations, Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children’s Literature serves as a model for examining how and why children’s literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.

Author : Aurelian Cr_iu_u
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0271033908

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"A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jon Butler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2001-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0674006674

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Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural: America three hundred years ago -- and today. Here are Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, in the process of becoming the first modern society -- a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution. Jon Butler's panoramic view of the colonies in this epoch transforms our customary picture of prerevolutionary America; it reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Stressing the middle and late decades (the hitherto "dark ages") of the American colonial experience, and emphasizing the importance of the middle and southern colonies as well as New England, Becoming America shows us transformations before 1776 among an unusually diverse assortment of peoples. Here is a polyglot population of English, Indians, Africans, Scots, Germans, Swiss, Swedes, and French; a society of small colonial cities with enormous urban complexities; an economy of prosperous farmers thrust into international market economies; peoples of immense wealth, a burgeoning middle class, and incredible poverty. Butler depicts settlers pursuing sophisticated provincial politics that ultimately sparked revolution and a new nation; developing new patterns in production, consumption, crafts, and trades that remade commerce at home and abroad; and fashioning a society remarkably pluralistic in religion, whose tolerance nonetheless did not extend to Africans or Indians. Here was a society that turned protest into revolution and remade itself many times during the next centuries -- asociety that, for ninety years before 1776, was becoming America.