Screen LibraryAmerican obscurantism : history and the visual in U.S. literature and film /
"American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through late twentieth and early twenty-first century film, the most compelling manifestations of America's troubled history have articulated this content through a unique f...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=517c3b665beb4f4ab7a20ca6540e97ee |
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"American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through late twentieth and early twenty-first century film, the most compelling manifestations of America's troubled history have articulated this content through a unique formal and tonal obscurity. Envisioning the formidable darkness attending racial history at nearly every stage of the republic's founding and ongoing devepment, writers such as William Faulkner and Hart Crane or directors like the Coen brothers and Stanley Kubrick present a powerful critique of American conquest, southern plantation culture, and western frontier ideology"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199797370 9780199797318 |
| Index Number: | PS169 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Contents: | Introduction: envisioning obscurity: history, racial knowing, and the "Perfect Whiteness of the Snow" -- Seeing in the dark houses: history and obscurity in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! -- "Orders from the house": American historicism in The Shining -- Fargo's whitened spaces: history, race, and the postmodern sublime -- Queer historiography in The bridge -- Conclusion: "Rememory," the visual, and America's future history: race and the digital turn. |