| Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States Contributor(s): Balasopoulos, Antonis (Editor), Mackenthun, Gesa (Editor), Tsimpouki, Theodora (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3825354792 ISBN-13: 9783825354794 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $55.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| LCCN: 2008500244 |
| Series: European Views of the United States |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" (1.05 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays collected in this volume - the outcome of the EAAS convention in Cyprus in 2006 - form a crossroads between a number of disciplines (literary theory and criticism, film studies, history, cultural studies, sociology); they are all animated - in different ways and to different extents - by a healthy suspicion towards the idea that the concepts of conformism, non-conformism and anti-conformism are transhistorically static or transcendentally self-evident. The conceptual contours of the subject are investigated before the topic is then explored in historical perspective, in its textual manifestations, and with regard to its stakes in visual culture. The collection is rounded off with a critical glance at commercial aspects of conformism and anti-conformism. The volume includes essays by Donald Pease, Heinz Ickstadt, Susana Delfino, Albena Bakratcheva, Marek Wilczynski, Johannes Volz, Marc Amfreville, Andrew S. Gross, Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Thomas Pughe, Susanne Rohr, Peter Loizos, Dimitris Liokaftos, Hilaria Loyo, Alexandra Ganser and Karin Hoepker, Frank Mehring, Berndt Ostendorf, and Arthur Redding. |