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Dreaming Suburbia
Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture
A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.
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ISBN: 9780814332283
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ISBN: 9780814339138
Dialogic Moments
From Soul Talks to Talk Radio in Israeli Culture
An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication—soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio.
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ISBN: 9780814327753
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ISBN: 9780814327746
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ISBN: 9780814337509
Fairy Tales and Feminism
New Approaches
Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.
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ISBN: 9780814330302
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ISBN: 9780814340820
Wild Things
Children's Culture and Ecocriticism
The first book-length study of the relationship between children's literature and ecocriticism.
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ISBN: 9780814330289
Performing Marginality
Humor, Gender, and Cultural Critique
A rhetorical analysis of female stand-up comics that explores the relationships among humor, gender, and power in contemporary culture.
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ISBN: 9780814328033
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ISBN: 9780814337448
About Face
German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz
A critical history of physiognomic thought in German-speaking Europe that traces the roots of twentieth-century racial profiling to the Enlightenment.
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ISBN: 9780814331798
Peripheral Visions
The Hidden Stages of Weimar Cinema
An insightful overview of an important era in cinema.
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ISBN: 9780814329283
Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination
An examination of "the monster" in Italian culture and its evolution from the medieval period to the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 9780814339879
Arab Detroit
From Margin to Mainstream
In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit.
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ISBN: 9780814328125
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ISBN: 9780814328118
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ISBN: 9780814339787
Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media
This anthology examines a number of issues related to violence within the media landscape.
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ISBN: 9780814327425
Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
This volume explores the dynamics of cultural memory in a variety of contexts.
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ISBN: 9780814327531