[PDF] Make America Hate Again eBook

Author : Victoria McCollum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351016490

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Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalising on the political and cultural climate in which they are made. This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics and the mutating role of traditional and new media in the era of Donald Trump’s Presidency of the United States. Exploring horror’s renewed potential for political engagement in a socio-political climate characterised by the angst of civil conflict, the deception of ‘alternative facts’ and the threat of nuclear or biological conflict and global warming, Make America Hate Again examines the intersection of film, politics, and American culture and society through a bold critical analysis of popular horror (films, television shows, podcasts and online parodies), such as 10 Cloverfield Lane, American Horror Story, Don’t Breathe, Get Out, Hotel Transylvania 2, Hush, It, It Comes at Night, South Park, The Babadook, The Walking Dead, The Woman, The Witch and Twin Peaks: The Return. The first major exploration of the horror genre through the lens of the Trump era, it investigates the correlations between recent, culturally meaningful horror texts, and the broader culture within which they have become gravely significant. Offering a rejuvenating, optimistic, and positive perspective on popular culture as a site of cultural politics, Make America Hate Again will appeal to scholars and students of American studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Elliot Cohen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781985001138

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Some seventy years after the defeat of fascism in Europe, the United States elected Donald Trump. As president Trump has ordered the deportation of millions of immigrants, attacked freedom of the press and stated that those who marched along side Neo-nazi's in a white supremacist rally were "fine young men." How is it possible that the nation that responded to the fascism in World War Two by proclaiming "we have nothing to fear, but fear itself" could give rise to this? This well documented text examines historic similarities between Trump and earlier anti-democratic movements, explores why so much of the electorate voted for him despite it his hateful rhetoric, looks at Trumps actions since taking office, contemplates what a Trump presidency could mean for the future and explores resistance to the Trump agenda.

Author : Keon Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category :
ISBN :

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What's the definition of make America great again? Is it 400yrs ago when America made slavery of black men & women legal? Is it in the 50's & 60's when segregation took place? Is it when lynchings of African Americans was a sport? All I saw was the hate for black people, you had white mobs killing innocent black people just because of their skin color. Fast forward, now you have white police officers killing innocent unarmed black men & women.

Author : Whitney S. May
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 149684226X

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Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Whitney S. May, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in 1986, Stephen King’s novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part film adaptation and the inspiration for a resurgence of the evil clown figure in popular culture, IT's influence is undeniable, yet scholarship to date is almost exclusively devoted to the adaptations rather than the novel itself. Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s “IT” considers the pronounced cultural fluctuations of IT's legacies by centering the novel within the theoretical frameworks that animate it and ensure its literary and cultural persistence. The collection explores the ways the novel, so like its antagonist, replicates (or disavows) the icons of various canons and categories in order to accomplish specific psychological and cultural work. Gathering the work of scholars from diverse professional and disciplinary vantage points, editor Whitney S. May has curated an anthology that spans discussions of American surveillance culture, intergenerational conflict, the legacies of settler colonialism and Native American representation, serial-killer fanaticism, and more. In this volume, we read the protagonists’ constellations of countermoves against Pennywise as productive outlines of critique effectuated by the richness of the clown’s reflective power. The essays are therefore thematically arranged into a series of four categories of “counter”—countercurrents, countercultures, counterclaims, and counterfeits—where each supplies a specific critical lens through which to view Pennywise’s disruptions of both culture and cultural critique.

Author : Andy Curtis
Publisher : Wayzgoose Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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You’ve heard the speeches. Now see how they work—that is, how language can be used to convey information—or misinformation—to persuade, to rouse, to obfuscate. Linguist and researcher Dr. Andy Curtis deconstructs five major speeches by Donald Trump and examines them move by move, line by line, and explains how they function. Thoroughly researched (citing well over 200 sources) and engagingly written, this book pulls back the curtain to show you how this kind of speechifying works. Words matter, whether you’re speaking them or hearing them. As a global citizen, you owe it to yourself to understand the deeper meaning of the messages targeted at you. With a better understanding of how language works, you’ll be better equipped to make sense of what you hear, and to distinguish fact from fiction.

Author : Kaare Kyle Andrews
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :

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Con$ume, Con$ume, Con$ume... OR: (How many killer sexbots does it take to f*ck the world?)

Author : D. Watkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1510716408

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A New York Times Best Seller! To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri, happened; and then South Carolina hit the headlines; and then Baltimore blew up, it was hard to find any evidence of a new post-racial order. Suddenly the entire country seemed to be awakened to a stark fact: African American men are in danger in America. This has only become clearer as groups like Black Lives Matter continue to draw attention to this reality daily not only online but also in the streets of our nation’s embattled cities. Now one of our country’s quintessential urban war zones is brought powerfully to life by a rising young literary talent, D. Watkins. The author fought his way up on the eastside (the “beastside”) of Baltimore, Maryland—or “Bodymore, Murderland,” as his friends call it. He writes openly and unapologetically about what it took to survive life on the streets while the casualties piled up around him, including his own brother. Watkins pushed drugs to pay his way through school, staying one step ahead of murderous business rivals and equally predatory lawmen. When black residents of Baltimore finally decided they had had enough—after the brutal killing of twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray while in police custody—Watkins was on the streets as the city erupted. He writes about his bleeding city with the razor-sharp insights of someone who bleeds along with it. Here are true dispatches from the other side of America. In this new paperback edition, the author has also added new material responding to the rising tide of racial resentment and hate embodied by political figures like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, and the impact this has had on issues of race in America. This book is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of the chaos of our current political moment.

Author : V.S. Dharmakumar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1645875571

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Believe it or not, an American president was arrested for running over a woman with his horse. He was not the only one to be arrested (two more were). George Washington preferred fox hunting with his dogs than going to church. Young Abraham Lincoln fell into a deep ditch and was saved by his dog. And after he was assassinated, his dog `Fido’ also was assassinated. Who was the President who worked as a bartender? And the one who once officially served as an executioner? The President of the United States is considered one of the world's most powerful people, leading the world’s only current superpower. His role includes being the commander-in-chief of the world's most expensive military with the largest nuclear arsenal with the nuclear button on his desk. This book is the result of over a decade of research and writing. It is a comprehensive compendium - a single-volume book, about the 44 men the entire world looked upon as the most powerful men in the world. 44 men who formed the 45 presidencies of the United States of America through 58 quadrennial presidential elections in the 230 years from 1789. This book covers the presidency of the successful liquor distributor and owner of a distillery George Washington, to the presidency of Donald Trump, the oldest, wealthiest man without any prior military or government service experience to ever assume the presidency.

Author : Genaro Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2018-12-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781729350430

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The chosen son who outshone his father, making the Trump name titanic. The mastermind who filed for bankruptcy on numerous occasions and became a billionaire - twice. When he became bored, he decided to make America "great again", or basically white again. The world thought he was a joke when he ran for President of the United States. But he would have the last laugh.Tapping into a dark world of voters who believed they had been left out, left behind and forgotten. They thought he was the new Messiah who felt their pain. He called Mexicans rapists, drug dealers, gang-bangers and murderers, promising to build a wall to keep them out of the U.S. Whites would begin to hate blacks again. "Today is a great day for white people. White power to all white people", David Duke of the Klu Klux Klan would proudly say.Trump divided the country, filling it with hate, rage and malice. He appointed Steve Bannon as his Chief Strategist; a master of political theater and a champion of white supremacy, then fired him. He endorsed accused rapist Roy Moore for Senator. The people called Trump racist, sexist, unsavory and just plain evil. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn't lose any votes", he boasted, and he was right. The joke was on them because Trump never loses and became the President. The country was in an uproar, living in fear of what he would do next. They had good reason to be scared: The country was being introduced to the "New Hitler". Donald J. Trump pledged he would 'make America great again"...instead, he made America HATE again.This is a page-turning thriller about the first President that might bring America to her knees. He has chosen to pick a fight with everybody, including Kim Jong Un who has threatened to bomb the U.S. But Trump would tell him, "I, too, have a nuclear button and it is much bigger, more powerful and my button works". Proving his mentality is mentally deranged and scary. Just like Adolf Hitler, millions will die under the dictatorship of Trump.If you liked: Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff and Trump by Ted Rall, you'll love this book!

Author : Amanda DiPaolo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498578381

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The strange and wonderful place of Twin Peaks captivated audiences for more than two decades before its long-awaited return to television in 2017. David Lynch and Mark Frost created a land that embodies the politics of American culture. With its focus on small-town America and life outside urban centers, rural and suburban values play a big part in the overall Twin Peaks narrative. More than just a soapy murder investigation or a mysterious puzzle to be solved, Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return are metaphors for the political years in which they are set. The Politics of Twin Peaks investigates the show’s engagement with American politics and identity. With a close relationship between the two, Twin Peaks is the rare cultural landmark in both film and television whose timelessness is defined by the fact that it can constantly be reinterpreted. Within that sometimes dreamlike Lynchian narrative, Twin Peaks hints at, sometimes explicitly and sometimes subtly, the political fault lines in the United States. In this edited collection, the politics inherent in Twin Peaks is approached from numerous points of view.