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Title Esthetic experiments : interdisciplinary challenges in American studies / edited by Edyta Just and Marek M. Wojtaszek ; typeset by Marta Kotwas.

Publication Info. Newcaste upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 190 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of illustrations; introduction -- esthetic experiments; chapter one -- technology and its discontents; chapter two -- in the land of ghost-signs, or william gibson''s spook country; chapter three -- military memoirs and masculinity; chapter four -- humane soldiers; chapter five -- different feminist approaches to reproductive technologies; chapter six -- the centrifugal age; chapter seven -- president goes to hollywood; chapter eight -- simpleton as a symbol of american je-ne-sais-quoi, or a quasi-national icon; chapter nine -- men, women and fame; chapter ten -- pantopia of transference.
Chapter eleven -- multiculturalism of american music as a basis of the national composers'' schoolcontributors; index.
Summary Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layers of society. This book brings to attention their cultural and political aspects, emphasizing timeliness and necessity of academic intervention into, and evaluation of, their specificity and ramifications. Presenting critical and analytical account of cultural narratives which define, speak of, and use diverse technologies (of writing, sound, media ...
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
United States.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1970-
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Just, Edyta.
Wojtaszek, Marek M.
Spine Title Esthetic experiment
Other Form: Print version: Esthetic experiments 1443844640 (OCoLC)827083178
ISBN 9781443866347 (electronic book)
1443866342 (electronic book)
1443844640
9781443844642