Simulacrum America

Author : Elisabeth Kraus
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131874
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simulacrum America written by Elisabeth Kraus and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint. This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the total manipulation of society by mass-media imagery has emerged. The very concept of 'representation' has become problematic, witness the influential essay "The Precession of Simulacra" by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which he defines simulation as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"- the current boom in 'realityTV' comes to mind. In the seventeen years since the publication of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, ever more sophisticated technologies based on the computer as the simulacrum machine par excellence have offered us powerful new means of manipulating data - and consequently, means of manipulating, editing, and inventing 'reality.' The aim of this study is to unmask false 'representations', showing history, personal and cultural identity (especially gender and racial identities), the simulacrum of speed -- and American 'reality' itself -- to be constructs.

Author : Elisabeth Kraus
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131874
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simulacrum America written by Elisabeth Kraus and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint. This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the total manipulation of society by mass-media imagery has emerged. The very concept of 'representation' has become problematic, witness the influential essay "The Precession of Simulacra" by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which he defines simulation as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"- the current boom in 'realityTV' comes to mind. In the seventeen years since the publication of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, ever more sophisticated technologies based on the computer as the simulacrum machine par excellence have offered us powerful new means of manipulating data - and consequently, means of manipulating, editing, and inventing 'reality.' The aim of this study is to unmask false 'representations', showing history, personal and cultural identity (especially gender and racial identities), the simulacrum of speed -- and American 'reality' itself -- to be constructs.

Author : M. W. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450635
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Simulacra written by M. W. Smith and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.

Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068522
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial America written by C. Richard King and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a wide array of disciplines describe and debate postcolonialism as it applies to America in this authoritative and timely collection. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, Postcolonial America clarifies and challenges prevailing conceptualizations of postcolonialism and accepted understandings of American culture. Advancing multiple, even conflicted visions of postcolonial America, this important volume interrogates postcolonial theory and traces the emergence and significance of postcolonial practices and precepts in the United States. Contributors discuss how the unique status of the United States as the colony that became a superpower has shaped its sense of itself. They assess the global networks of inequality that have displaced neocolonial systems of conquest, exploitation, and occupation. They also examine how individuals and groups use music, the Internet, and other media to reconfigure, reinvent, and resist postcoloniality in American culture. Candidly facing the inherent contradictions of "the American experience," this collection demonstrates the patterns, connections, and histories characteristic of postcoloniality in America and initiates important discussions about how these conditions might be changed.

Author : Les Essif
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137299037
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American ‘Unculture’ in French Drama written by Les Essif and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860919780
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America written by Jean Baudrillard and published by Verso. This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his most accessible and evocative book, France’s leading philosopher of postmodernism takes to the freeways in a collection of traveler’s tales from the land of hyperreality.

Author : Garry Potter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317331850
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Social Science written by Garry Potter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook offers an exceptionally accessible yet in-depth introduction to the philosophy of social science. Students with no previous knowledge will find themselves taken on an engaging philosophical journey: the book’s unique dialogue format anticipates their most frequently asked questions and provides clear explanations of specialised terminology and essential contextualisation of contemporary debates. Encompassing both traditional and contemporary perspectives, the book explores the questions and debates raised by all the major theoretical positions in the philosophy of social science, including positivism, empiricism, rationalism, hermeneutics, feminist epistemology, postmodernism and critical realism. The first edition of this book had a Eurocentric bias, as does virtually all other textbooks covering this subject matter. This has been corrected in the second edition and includes a new chapter on the contributions of Islam to philosophy, natural science social science including sociology. The second edition also has a newly written chapter on pragmaticism and neo-pragmaticism, as well as strengthened coverage of hermeneutics, postmodernism and critical realism. The book‘s rich pedagogic support includes: point-by-point summaries introducing the scope of every chapter; discussion questions; further reading lists; and a glossary of key terminology. This excellent textbook is designed to provide every student with a clear understanding of important and complex issues. It is essential reading for all students of philosophy of social science, whether at undergraduate or Masters level and regardless of their disciplinary background.

Author : Debra Shostak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501340050
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel written by Debra Shostak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictive Fathers in the Contemporary American Novel explores the unstable construction of heteronormative white masculinity in the contemporary United States by focusing on relationships between fathers and their children. Debra Shostak reads the novels of 18 North American writers publishing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as allegories of cultural conflict and change within the nuclear family; the authors considered include Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, Jonathan Lethem, Carole Maso, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Claire Messud, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tim O'Brien, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, and Anne Tyler. These novelists portray father figures who, often literally or figuratively absent from the family scene, disrupt the familial order and their family members' identities. Shostak's close readings illuminate unexpectedly conservative, even subversive, ideological positions at the heart of these fictions. Fictive Fathers traces the eroding myth of paternal authority that sustained a patriarchal model within real American families and their literary representations.

Author : S. Halldorson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230609783
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction written by S. Halldorson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."

Author : Erik Dussere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199969922
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America Is Elsewhere written by Erik Dussere and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.