For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional “other” within US and European nationalisms. Brittany Powell Kennedy compares these two apparently similar cultures to reveal how we construct difference around the self/other dichotomy.
Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The... Læs mere
Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the... Læs mere
To generate African American support for World War II, the government turned to mass media. Kathleen German delves into the... Læs mere
Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a... Læs mere
Presents a carefully selected collection of interviews and profiles that focus on Steve Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the course of more than four... Læs mere
From the first fully fledged review of his screen debut in November 1928 to the present day, Mickey Mouse has won millions of fans and charmed even the harshest of critics. Ranging... Læs mere
Hers is the show business saga you think you already know - but you ain't seen nothin' yet. Rose Thompson Hovick, mother of June... Læs mere
Getting in touch with a spiritual side is a craving many are unable voice, but readers and viewers seek out this connection through animation, cinema,... Læs mere
Neil Gaiman is one of the most critically decorated and popular authors of the last fifty years, but his work is under represented in sustained... Læs mere
In her latest book, award-winning author Lisa Corrigan suggests that Black Power provided a significant repository for negative feelings, largely black... Læs mere
A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a tradition of creative, collaborative partnerships between adults and children in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England.