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Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History

Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History

Peter Rollins

... security to notions of masculinity. “Characteristics, actions, and reactions deemed feminine—such as diplomacy, negotiation, and compromise” have been systematically devalued in public discourse 488 / Stacy Takacs 22 / Stacy Takacs .
Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies

Intellect Books

Stacy Takacs Oklahoma State University, American Studies, 700 North Greenwood Ave, Tulsa, 74106-0700, United States of America Keywords trauma, therapeutic rhetoric, militarism, US television, militainment Stacy Takacs is an Associate ...
TV Nationalisms: Reflections on the Contemporary State ...

TV Nationalisms: Reflections on the Contemporary State ...

Stacy Takacs

Reflections on the Contemporary State And/of US Imperialism Stacy Takacs. for being probably the sweetest, most supportive guy on the planet. Thanks for the pre-exam poem, which I still cherish, and all of the encouragement over the years .
Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies ...

Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies ...

Cara Cilano

Stacy Takacs (2012: 22) adds to this formulation the idea that such security measures also “offe[r] clarity by dividing the world into categories of 'us' and 'them '.” These divisions, in turn, operate at the “level of affect,” in Takacs's analysis, ...
The Spectator

The Spectator

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In "TV Nationalism: History as Spectacle on Miami Vice," Stacy Takacs focuses on the ways this series, and its use of the logics of spectacle, articulates the connections between ideas of nationhood and the spread of global capitalism. Takacs ...
Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America

Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America

Stacy Takacs

The first comprehensive survey and analysis of War on Terror themes in post-9/11 American television.
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions

Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions

Stacy Takacs

Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M.S. Nelson (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). 36 John Fiske, Television Culture (New York: Routledge, 1987), 239. 37 Joke Hermes, Reading Women's Magazines ...
American Militarism on the Small Screen

American Militarism on the Small Screen

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Anna Froula, Stacy Takacs. series that made the rare move of engaging the conflict—such as Biff Baker, USA (CBS, 1952–1953), Navy Log (CBS, 1955– 1956; ABC, 1956–1958), and Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 1961–1963). Laderman argues that ...
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: ...

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: ...

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6 Takacs (1994); and Montserrat (1998). 7 Ebers Papyrus, lines 12-16 (Ebers ( 1987), 23). 8 For a translation of this myth of Ra, see J. A. Wilson in Pritchard ( 1955), 12-14. most powerful of all gods, is old and spit falls. 354 SaroltaA. Takacs .
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants

Alexandra Popoff

Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 3. Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom ( Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 25. Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 11. lbid., 10. Alexander Bahrah, Bunin vhalate (Moskva: Soglasie, 2000), 120—21. Stacy Schiff, Ve'ra, 12 .
Quicklet on Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life ...

Quicklet on Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life ...

Paul Kraly

Stacy Schiff Stacy Schiff has used her award winning expertise in biography to examine a woman who is at once one of the ... Schiff's Cleopatra is a lively, well rounded woman who defies the stereotypes that have been bandied about for over ...
Spies, Inc.: Business Innovation from Israel's Masters of ...

Spies, Inc.: Business Innovation from Israel's Masters of ...

Stacy Perman

Now, Stacy Perman tells this incredible story...revealing the techniques of entrepreneurship on the fly, when failure is not an option.
Kleopatra. Biografia

Kleopatra. Biografia

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff w swojej książce odczarowuje Kleopatrę, zdejmując z niej, warstwa po warstwie, ów szlachetny kulturowy osad, oddzielając fakty od fikcji.
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

Vividly capturing the dark, unsettled atmosphere of seventeenth-century America, Stacy Schiff's magisterial history draws us into this anxious time.
The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: ...

The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: ...

Sarolta A. Takács

In The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium, Sarolta Takács examines the role of the Roman emperor, who was the single most important law-giving authority in Roman society.
The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692

Stacy Schiff

As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Cléopâtre

Cléopâtre

Stacy Schiff

Dans ce récit magistral, Stacy Schiff révèle par quel tour de passe-passe l’histoire a transformé une grande reine, incarnation même de la femme de pouvoir, en catin malfaisante.
Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Stacy Schiff

Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.
Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Stacy Schiff

This is Stacy Schiff's first book, but she writes with all the skill, assurance and mastery of an old literary hand. If there was such a thing as a prize for a first biography, I would nominate this book. ' Frank McLynn, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.
The Truth About Style

The Truth About Style

Stacy London

The New York Times bestselling style guide from the cohost of What Not to Wear It’s clear why Women’s Wear Daily hails Stacy London as “the Dr. Phil of fashion.” Since 2002, she’s transformed hundreds of guests on TLC’s hit show ...
The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis ...

The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis ...

Scott Kurashige

Stacy Perman, “The Real History of America's Most Authentic Fake Brand,” Inc. ( April 2016), http://www.inc.com/magazine/201604 /stacy-perman/shinola-watch- history-manufacturing-heritage-brand .html. 16. Joe Nocera, “Is Motown Getting Its ...
Camp Rolling Hills: Book One

Camp Rolling Hills: Book One

Stacy Davidowitz

" --Michael Showalter, co-writer of Wet Hot American Summer "Stacy Davidowitz gets the magic of camp and the wonder of being twelve just right. Camp Rolling Hills is both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Guide to Birding Coastal Mississippi: And Adjacent Counties

Guide to Birding Coastal Mississippi: And Adjacent Counties

Judith A. Toups

And Adjacent Counties Judith A. Toups, Jerry L. Bird, Stacy Jon Peterson. NATURE/Birdmg ... Audubon Society. Stacy Jon Peterson has observed and tracked all manner of bird, from flycatchers in Mississippi to hummingbirds in Idaho. ISBN ...
The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement ...

The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement ...

Daniel C. Esty

Stacy Perman, "Radical Green," Time 175, no. 15, April 12, 2010. 2. Stacy Perman, "Radical Green." 3. Michael Porter, "America's Green Strategy," Scientific American 264, no. 4, April 199 1. 4. "Irika Shipping to Pay $4M Penalty for Violating ...
The state of American higher education: what are parents, ...

The state of American higher education: what are parents, ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce

Vincent Tinto and Stacy Riemcr, Remedial Education in Higher Education: Learning Communities, Syracuse U., Syracuse, 22 Jun. 2001 < http://soeweb.syr. edu/'bed/tinto/ncpi.htrn>. °'"“'“ Vincent Tinto and Stacy Riemer, Remedial Education in ...
Vera mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov: portret van een huwelijk

Vera mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov: portret van een huwelijk

Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff is de auteur van Vera, mevrouw Vladimir Nabokov, dat bekroond werd met een Pulitzer Prize. Schiff schrijft regelmatig voor onder meer The New Yorker, The New York Times en The Washington Post. Ze woont en werkt in New York.
The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation and ...

The Footprints of Michael the Archangel: The Formation and ...

J. Arnold

... Monuments,” Journal ofRoman Archaeology 3 (1990): 55–109; Francesca L' Hoir, “Three Sandalled Footlamps: Their Apotropaic Potentiality in the Cult of Serapis,” ArchäologischerAnzeiger 15 (1983): 225– 237.Also, SaroltaA.Takács ...
Molecular Immunological Considerations in Malaria Vaccine ...

Molecular Immunological Considerations in Malaria Vaccine ...

Michael F. Good

Jakobsen, P. H., Moon, R., Ridley, R. G., Bate, C. A. W., Taverne, J., Hansen, M. B., Takacs, B., Playfair, J. H. L., and McBride, J. S., Tumour necrosis factor and interleukin6 production induced by components associated with merozoite proteins ...

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