Product Description: “It is frightening to think the [Jon Wiener] teaches history at a university ... ”—Jacques Derrida“Wiener takes the modern university as his beat, and covers it like a police reporter ... Wiener’s mean streets are the think tank, the scholarly symposium, and the faculty lounge...read more

Examines American culture at the height of the Cold War to reveal the paranoia that permeated the era's films and literature

Explores the connection between Hollywood and Washington and offers an inside look at a relationship that has transformed American political culture

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Product Description: "I am most impressed with the utility of this collection, the quality of the scholarship, the clarity of the writing, the breadth of coverage, and most important, the kinds of questions that each essay raises." -- Bruce C. Nelson, Central Michigan UniversityThis book is a collection of essays dealing with the ways in which specific popular entertainment media, mass consumer products, and popular movements affect politics and political culture in the United States...read more

Product Description: The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics...read more