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Age of Sex Crime
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Library of Congress HV6515.C36 1987 | Dewey Decimal 364.1523
The sexualized serial murder of women by men is the subject of this provocative book. Jane Caputi argues that the sensationalized murders by men such as Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and the Yorkshire Ripper represent a contemporary genre of sexually political crimes. The awful deeds function as a form of patriarchal terrorism, "disappearing" women at a rate of some four thousand annually in the United States alone. Caputi asks us not only to name the phenomenon of sexually political murder, but to recognize sex crime in all of its various interconnecting manifestations.
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American Commonplace: Essays on the Popular Culture of the United States
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1982
Library of Congress E169.1.L816 1982 | Dewey Decimal 973.92
For ages an endeavor simply ignored and for decades a calling held in contempt, the study of popular culture has in our time been coming of age. For this, we can thank scholars such as Professor Lohof. In this volume he discusses some aspects of American popular culture: advertising and celebrities, architecture, short fiction and magazines, the academy. Professor Lohof analyzes these subjects with a variety of methodological approaches: the myth/image movement; the literature of sociology, structuralist theory and statistical content analysis.
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American Theatrical Film: Stages of Development
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
Library of Congress PN1995.25.T5 1985 | Dewey Decimal 791.430973
This book provides needed information on the collaborations between filmmakers and theater personnel before 1930 and completes our understanding of how two art forms influenced each other. It begins with the vaudeville and "faerie" dramas captured in brief films by the Edison and Biograph companies; follows the development of feature-length Sarah Bernhardt and James O'Neill films after 1912; examines the formation of theater/film combination companies in 1914-15; and details later collaborations during the talking picture revolution of 1927. Includes detailed analyses of important theatrical films like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Virginian, Coquette, and Paramount on Parade.
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And Then There Were Nine. . .: More Women of Mystery
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
Library of Congress PS374.D4A54 1985 | Dewey Decimal 813.087209
Within the formulas of crime fiction, this collection ranges from writers Daphne du Maurier and Margery Allingham, whose names are synonymous with conventional subgenres of crime fiction, through Patricia Highsmith, and Shirley Jackson, who deliberately set conventions aside or who moved those conventions into other realms. Most important, perhaps, Jackson, Highsmith and E. X. Ferrars depict civilizations that are not essentially orderly, that are not founded upon a commonly understood concept of justice--where one must make her own order.
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Beyond the Stars 2: Plot Conventions in American Popular Film
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University of Wisconsin Press
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Beyond the Stars 5: Themes and Ideologies in American Popular Film
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990
Library of Congress PN1995.9.C36B49 1990 | Dewey Decimal 791.436
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Beyond the Stars: Stock Characters in American Popular Film
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990
Library of Congress PN1995.9.C36B49 1990 | Dewey Decimal 791.436
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Bigger Than Life: The Creator of Doc Savage
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press
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Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of Margery Allingham
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Library of Congress PR6001.L678Z84 1987 | Dewey Decimal 823.912
Here is a look at Water in a Sieve and Blackkerchief Dick and twenty-two other books by Margery Allingham featuring Albert Campion. Campion, the fictional hero, was a man of action, who appears to be a "guileless-looking nonentity whom it is almost obligatory to underestimate." Any fan of Campion or Ms. Allingham's mysteries will enjoy comparing their judgments to Pike's.
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Controversial Sholem Asch: An Introduction to His Fiction
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press
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Early American Almanac Humor
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Library of Congress PS533.E27 1987 | Dewey Decimal 817.208
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Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism in Culture
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1984
Library of Congress HM73.F67 1984 | Dewey Decimal 306
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The Forge and the Funeral: The Smith in Kapsiki/Higi Culture
Walter E. A. van Beek
Michigan State University Press, 2015
Library of Congress DT571.K36B45 2015 | Dewey Decimal 967.11
Throughout Africa one craft among many stands out: that of the blacksmith. In many African cultures, smiths occupy a significant position, not just as artisans engaging in a difficult craft but also as special people. Often they perform other crafts, as well, and make up a somewhat separate group inside society. The Forge and the Funeral describes the position of the smith in the culture of the Kapsiki/Higi of northern Cameroon and northeastern Nigeria. Situated in the Mandara Mountains and straddling the border of these two countries, Kapsiki culture forms a specific and highly relevant example of the phenomenon of the smith in Africa. As an endogamous group of about 5 percent of the population, Kapsiki smiths perform an impressive array of crafts and specializations, combining magico-religious functions with metalwork, in particular as funeral directors, as well as with music and healing. The Forge and the Funeral gives an intimate description and analysis of this group, based upon the author’s four decades–long involvement with the Kapsiki/Higi. Description and analysis are set within the more general scholarly debates about the dynamics of professional closure—including the notions of caste and guild—and also consider the deep history of iron and brass in Africa.
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Hardboiled in Hollywood: Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1991
Library of Congress PN1998.2.W5 1991 | Dewey Decimal 808.230922
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Humor and Comedy in Puppetry: Celebration in Popular Culture
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Library of Congress PN1972.H76 1987 | Dewey Decimal 791.53
This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Puppetry, which is intended for audiences of adults as well as children, is a form of communication and entertainment and an esthetic and artistic creation. Of the many aspects of puppetry worthy of scholarly study, this book's focus is on a central and dominant feature--humor and comedy.
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It's a Print!: Detective Fiction from Page to Screen
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press
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Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith and Watson Autobiography Studies Reader
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
Michigan Publishing Services, 2016
Library of Congress CT25.S5947 2016 | Dewey Decimal 920
Life Writing in the Long Run gathers twenty-one essays by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson written in collaboration or solo and published over the last quarter-century. It includes the introductions to their five edited collections; essays focused on such autobiographical genres as autoethnography, Bildungsroman, diary, digital life writing, genealogy, graphic memoir, human rights witnessing, manifesto; and essays engaging the key concepts of authenticity, performativity, postcoloniality, relationality, and visuality.
Available in print, eBook, and open access versions, this collection captures decades of exciting developments in the field, making it indispensable reading for courses on modes and media of self-presentation in cultural, gender, and literary studies and feminist theory.
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Media Sense: The Folklore-Popular Culture Continuum
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press
Library of Congress F1021.2.M43 1986 | Dewey Decimal 306.1
Essays in this collection exemplify folkloristic approaches to popular culture. The contributors are concerned with the ways in which technological media shape expressive forms; the small group uses of mass media; the relation of traditional forms, content and aesthetics to mass popularity; the changing repertoires and roles of active bearers of tradition who perform for audiences of differing sizes; and the functions of folklore within the conventions of popular culture. This collection demonstrates that folklore and popular culture are not oppositional so much as interdependent categories of cultural activity in modern society.
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News in a Digital Age: Comparing the Presentation of News Information over Time and Across Media Platforms
Jonathan S. Kavanagh
RAND Corporation, 2019
Dewey Decimal 302.230973
This report presents a quantitative assessment of how the presentation of news has changed over the past 30 years and how it varies across platforms. Over time, and as society moved from “old” to “new” media, news content has generally shifted from more-objective event- and context-based reporting to reporting that is more subjective, relies more heavily on argumentation and advocacy, and includes more emotional appeals.
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Novelist to a Generation: The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press
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Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives: From the Dime Novels
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990
Library of Congress PS648.D4O4 1990 | Dewey Decimal 813.087208352042
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Other Worlds: The Fantasy Genre
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
Library of Congress PN56.F34T55 1983 | Dewey Decimal 809.3876
Fantasy permits its readers a certain distance from pragmatic affairs and offers them a clearer insight into them. It offers a parallel reality, which gives us a renewed awareness of what we already know. Fantasy invites the reader to recover a belief which has been beclouded by knowledge, to renew a faith which has been shattered by fact. As the pace of modern life quickens, the fascination for fantasy literature quickens simultaneously.
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Personal Places: Perspectives on Informal Art Environments
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1984
Library of Congress NK805.W29 1984 | Dewey Decimal 709.73
The human-constructed modifications of the environment and landscape examined in the essays collected here have been referred to as everything from piles of junk to the greatest accomplishments of humankind.
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Smith
Brandeis University Press, 2018
Library of Congress F7.C6 1983 | Dewey Decimal 974.02
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Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press
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Popular Culture in the Middle Ages
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1986
Library of Congress CB353.P58 1986 | Dewey Decimal 940.1
The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."
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Sixty Years of Journalism
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
Library of Congress PN4874.C218A25 1985 | Dewey Decimal 814.52
The late James M. Cain was a newspaperman, playwright, and novelist. Although best known for his controversial novels (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, Serenade, The Butterfly, and Past All Dishonor), Cain always considered himself a journalist, a "newpaperman who wrote yarns on the side." The book includes some of Cain's best articles and essays. The material is sometimes serious, sometimes humorous and provides a unique look at 60 years of history.
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Special Branch: The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1981
Library of Congress PR888.S65P36 | Dewey Decimal 823.087209
The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criticism, trying both to place them in historical perspective and to describe and analyze the content and form of their fiction.
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Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield
Smith
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988
Library of Congress PR9619.3.U6Z557 1988 | Dewey Decimal 823.912
In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants. His detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most memorable of all crime fighters. Upfield was an independent, fiercely self-assertive ex-Britisher, who loved Australia, especially the Outback. In many ways Upfield became Outback Australia—the “Spirit of Australia.”
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Upfield, Arthur William, -- 1888-1964 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Detective and mystery stories, Australian -- History and criticism.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Inspector (Fictitious character)
National characteristics, Australian, in literature.
Australia -- In literature.
Police in literature.
Crime in literature.
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