Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sergei Eisenstein : the historical dialectic -- John Ford : poetry and heroism -- George Stevens : the American character : desire and conscience -- Billy Wilder : existence at stake -- Ernst Lubitsch : the life force of romance -- Elia Kazan : drama as life -- Francois Truffaut : celebrate the child -- Roman Polanski : the aloneness of existence -- Stanley Kubrick : the darkness of modern life -- Steven Spielberg : childhood forever -- Margarethe Von Trotta : historical life and personal life intersect -- Lukas Moodysson : empathy and its limits -- Catherine Breillat : the warfare of sexuality -- Mary Harron : celebrity and banality -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Finding the director's idea…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Brady -- Narratives of personal revelation among Latter-day Saints / Tom Mould -- The great and dreadful day : Mormon folklore of the apocalypse / Susan Peterson -- Fate and the persecutors of Joseph Smith : transmutations of an American myth / Richard C. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Framing Religion in Amoral Order 113-- Baylor University Press, 2016-- Theresia Heimerl-- Matthew Rindge, Profane Parables. Film and the American Dream 121-- Baylor University Press, 2016-- Calls for Papers-- Comics and Animated Cartoons 127-- Using Media in Religious Studies 129-- Strategies of Representing Religion in Scholarly Approaches…”

“…In the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist cinema, Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream. This figure may be idealised or scapegoated within these films, yet strategic performances of gendered melancholia may produce benefits for white female directors and stars disadvantaged within a patriarchal industry. …”

“…¿ Buying a house remains part of many people’s definition of living the “American Dream.” But homeownership alone is not a panacea, especially in an era of complicated home loans. …”

“…There are examples of scripts from a wide range of films and television dramas such as Heroes, Brokeback Mountain, Coronation Street, The English Patient, Shooting The Past, Spaced, Our Friends In the North and American Beauty. …”

“…An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of British and North American programmes and practices. These include the role of memory in serial dramas ER, Grey's Anatomy and The Wire, an investigation of the family history format Who Do You Think You Are?…”

“…"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, theoretical eclecticism, the centrality of field research, and the ability to 'dream big,' but with a commonsense approach to the record and its limitations." …”

“…This intimate autobiographical collage of Miller's professional and personal life reveals one of the celebrated creators of a crucial contemporary art form and a tireless advocate for the American dream of political equality for all citizens. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: substance/style - Lucy Fife Donaldson, Sarah Cardwell and Jonathan Bignell; 1 Layers of style: design and embodiment in The Americans - Lucy Fife Donaldson; 2 New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife - Josette Wolthuis; 3 When style is substance and beyond: Les Revenants as metaphysical drama - Alberto N. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Modern Jewish Literature in English -- Yiddish in Jewish-American Literature: An Asset to Teaching at German Universities -- Affiliated Identities as a Design Tool for a Jewish Literature Course -- Case Study: Belonging in Dialogue. …”

“…From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. …”

“…In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I've seen this one before : the construction of "classic TV" on cable television / Derek Kompare -- Selling soap : post-war television soap opera and the American housewife / Kristen Hatch -- Study of a mad housewife : psychiatric discourse, the suburban home and the case of Gracie Allen / Allison McCracken -- Lessons from Uncle Miltie : ethnic masculinity and early television's vaudeo star / Susan Murray -- Nothin' could be finah : the Dinah Shore Chevy Show / Lola Clare Bratten -- Re-made for television : Hedy Lamarr's post-war star textuality / Diane Negra -- Maureen O'Hara's "confidential" life : recycling stars through gossip and moral biography / Mary Desjardins -- Matinee Theater : difference, compromise and the 1950s daytime audience / Matthew Murray -- The BBC and the birth of The Wednesday Play, 1962-66 : institutional containment versus "agitational contemporaneity" / Madeleine MacMurraugh-Kavanagh -- Mystery and Imagination : anatomy of a gothic anthology series / Helen Wheatley -- Exploiting the intimate screen : The Quartermass Experiment, fantasy and the aesthetic potential of early television drama / Catherine Johnson -- This Week in 1956 : the introduction of current affairs on ITV / Victoria Wegg-Prosser -- Women at work : popular drama on British television c1955-60 / Janet Thumim -- Cracking open the set : television repair and tinkering with gender 1949-1955 / Lisa Parks…”