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Profiles Of Selected Mormon Actors, J. Michael Hunter
Profiles Of Selected Mormon Actors, J. Michael Hunter
J Michael Hunter
“Profiles of Selected Mormon Actors” provides brief profiles of over 80 Mormon actors and actresses, including some biographical information and career highlights. This chapter appears in the first volume of Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon (Praeger 2013), a comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture, providing an introduction and wide-ranging overview of the topic.
Profiles Of Selected Mormon Athletes In Professional Sports, J. Michael Hunter
Profiles Of Selected Mormon Athletes In Professional Sports, J. Michael Hunter
J Michael Hunter
“Profiles of Selected Mormon Athletes in Professional Sports” provides profiles with career highlights of over 200 Mormon athletes in professional sports, including baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, football, golf, hockey, racing, running, volleyball, and wrestling. This chapter appears in the second volume of Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon (Praeger 2013), a comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture, providing an introduction and wide-ranging overview of the topic.
A Flag Is Flipped And A Nation Flaps: The Politics And Patriotism Of The First International World Series, Todd J. Wiebe
A Flag Is Flipped And A Nation Flaps: The Politics And Patriotism Of The First International World Series, Todd J. Wiebe
Todd J Wiebe
No abstract provided.
Women And Death In Film, Television And News: Dead But Not Gone, Joanne Clarke Dillman
Women And Death In Film, Television And News: Dead But Not Gone, Joanne Clarke Dillman
Joanne Clarke Dillman
Navigating With Harriet Quimby, Rachael Peckham
Navigating With Harriet Quimby, Rachael Peckham
Rachael Peckham
My maternal grandmother Ruth never missed an episode of the game show Jeopardy! One night in 2008, while I was working on my dissertation about a long-forgotten aviatrix with whom my family and I share connections, Grandma Ruth called to tell me about a Jeopardy! clue she had just heard: "The first woman to fly across the English Channel." My grandmother was reserved and soft-spoken, but I imagine her slapping the armrests of the recliner, disturbing the outstretched cat at her side, and beating all three contestants to the buzzer: "Who is Harriet Quimby?"--the subject of my dissertation.
We Are Cowboys In The Boat Of Ra: Sonny Rollins And Ishmael Reed's Black Cowboy, Brian Flota
We Are Cowboys In The Boat Of Ra: Sonny Rollins And Ishmael Reed's Black Cowboy, Brian Flota
Brian Flota
No abstract provided.
From Here To InFinnerty: Tony Soprano And The American Way, Terri Carney
From Here To InFinnerty: Tony Soprano And The American Way, Terri Carney
Terri M. Carney
As fellow critics have pointed out in a myriad of published studies on the series, The Sopranos challenges the traditional gangster genre formula and brings the mob closer to all of us: Tony and his gang inhabit a recognizable world of Starbucks, suburbia, and SUVs. They discuss issues of the day, the same ones we discuss when we turn off the TV after the episode. In short, they inhabit a quotidian reality that is continuous with our own, and we are prevented from drawing the neat lines that allow us a comfortable remove from the horror of the “criminal world,” …
Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend, Donna Jean Kessler
Sacagawea: A Uniquely American Legend, Donna Jean Kessler
Donna J Barbie
In an examination of American texts produced from 1804 to 1989, this dissertation delineates that Sacagawea became a legendary figure because she has exemplified critical elements of narrative traditions recounting the nation's sacred beginnings. As a plethora of works have portrayed Sacagawea as the Indian princess of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, she became an important emblem of manifest destiny. Flexible within its mythic framework, the Sacagawea legend has additionally enabled proponents to confront timely cultural issues, such as women suffrage, taboos against miscegenation, and modern feminism.
Chapter one provides a review of American frontier myths, concepts of sacred mission …
Desire And Disaster In New Orleans: Tourism, Race, And Historical Memory, Lynnell Thomas
Desire And Disaster In New Orleans: Tourism, Race, And Historical Memory, Lynnell Thomas
Lynnell Thomas
Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture—jazz, cuisine, dance—while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster. In this timely book, the Americanist and New Orleans native Lynnell L. Thomas delves into the relationship between tourism, cultural production, and racial politics. She carefully interprets the racial narratives embedded in tourist websites, travel guides, business periodicals, and newspapers; the thoughts of tour guides and owners; and the stories told on bus and walking tours as they were conducted both before and after Katrina. …
Blackbirds And Growing Pains: A Conversation With Rutherford Chang, Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.
Blackbirds And Growing Pains: A Conversation With Rutherford Chang, Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.
Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.
No abstract provided.
History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale
History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale
Robert H. I. Dale
This article concerns a New York Times story about the birth of the female Asian elephant calf, named America, at the winter headquarters of the "Greatest Show on Earth" in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 2, 1882. Phineas T. Barnum, one of the owners of the show, and one prone to self-aggrandizing bluster, claimed that America was the second elephant ever born in captivity. America was born only to months before the arrival in New York of the most famous circus elephant of all time, Jumbo, on Easter Sunday, 1882, and only two years before the origin of a small wagon …
Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula
Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula
Thomas Bacher
The Tuesday Musical Club was founded in 1887 by thirteen young Akron women who had an overwhelming desire to share their love of music. With further support of Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, the wife of industrialist Frank Seiberling, the organization grew like many other musical organizations across the country. Unlike similar clubs, the Akron-based entity continued to expand and is one of a very few that have survived. Among the artists who have appeared as a part of the rich history of Akron's Tuesday Musical Organization are Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Yascha Heifetz, Glenn Gould, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, …
Blues People Final Curriculum Guide.Pdf, Vincent L. Stephens
Blues People Final Curriculum Guide.Pdf, Vincent L. Stephens
Vincent L Stephens
Pulp In The Ivory Tower: One University Library's Development Of A Pulp Magazine Collection, Brian Flota, Mark Peterson
Pulp In The Ivory Tower: One University Library's Development Of A Pulp Magazine Collection, Brian Flota, Mark Peterson
Brian Flota
No abstract provided.
"Take It And Like It": Violence In The Pulp Magazines, Brian Flota
"Take It And Like It": Violence In The Pulp Magazines, Brian Flota
Brian Flota
No abstract provided.
Facebook, Made In Harvard: Youth, Stereotypes, And Exclusivity In The Information Age, Ying-Bei Wang
Facebook, Made In Harvard: Youth, Stereotypes, And Exclusivity In The Information Age, Ying-Bei Wang
Ying-bei Wang
In the paper, I conduct a film analysis of The Social Network and examine its portrayal of Facebook’s founders and collaborators. I argue that the film, while providing a new image of geek culture and youth’s role in digital culture, has incorporated the debasing views against women and people of color that is very common in the culture. The enormous popularity of the film indicates how this stereotype is widely accepted. Meanwhile, consulting literature that analyzes culture of the Information Age, I look at the power hierarchies within the culture, where young and white men are more visible and their …
The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell
The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mary Niall Mitchell
No abstract provided.
Nancy Drew And The Hardy Boys: The Secrets Of Our Favorite Teenage Sleuths, Patricia Bravender
Nancy Drew And The Hardy Boys: The Secrets Of Our Favorite Teenage Sleuths, Patricia Bravender
Patricia Bravender
If the words ‘mystery’ and ‘clue’ still give you a shiver of excitement, you were probably a fan of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. These books, read by millions, were the target of teachers and librarians who were largely successful in keeping them out of libraries for over 50 years. Nancy Drew and Frank and Joe Hardy had a secret that was too much for the times and certainly bigger than they ever encountered in River Heights and Bayport. Patricia Bravender will reveal the secret of these series books and talk about why these books were (and still are) …
Review Of Encyclopedia Of Great Popular Song Recordings, Nevin Mayer
Review Of Encyclopedia Of Great Popular Song Recordings, Nevin Mayer
Nevin J Mayer
No abstract provided.
Framing Farming: Communication Strategies For Animal Rights, Carrie P. Freeman
Framing Farming: Communication Strategies For Animal Rights, Carrie P. Freeman
Carrie P. Freeman
A Curriculum Guide To Teaching And Discussing: Stomping The Blues (1976) By Albert Murray, Vincent L. Stephens
A Curriculum Guide To Teaching And Discussing: Stomping The Blues (1976) By Albert Murray, Vincent L. Stephens
Vincent L Stephens
The Curriculum Guide is a comprehensive resource for educators seeking to use Albert Murray’s classic reflection on blues and jazz, Stomping the Blues in a classroom setting. The Guide includes summaries of each individual chapter and a listing of critical themes embedded in the chapter, a list of discussion questions, and a supplemental bibliography featuring reviews and essays on Stomping the Blues, and a resource for Murray’s additional writing on the blues genre. The Guide was funded by a grant awarded to scholar Vincent Stephens by Bucknell University's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (CSREG) in the …