Configuring America

Configuring AmericaElvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. LeBron James. Like many cultural figures who hail from the United States, they are known all over the world. ConFiguring America provides a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody Americas tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach.

As the first English-language study of Russian drama and theatre in the twenty-first century

the author provides an introduction delineating historical information regarding the film industries of the countries included in the book

Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema – yet

are sufficiently rich that it's always possible for a close analysis to offer something new – and that's what Franck Boulègue has done with Twin Peaks: Unwrapping the Plastic

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students will build confidence and skills that can help them succeed in presenting their work and themselves in

Honeywill's analysis shows how ancient visual languages now serve as a source for renewed study for the development of computer icons

the use of photography as a documentary medium and the representation of urban space reflect attitudes towards the city

Miss Cramps’ former maid and Merrit’s current housekeeper

along the way unraveling the mystery of the alluring

here the goal is to assign to each voxel either a complete NMR spectrum or a desired portion of the spectrum

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