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America in Literature and Film: Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations

America in Literature and Film: Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations

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Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1138277185
ISBN13: 9781138277182
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2016
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of literary works, films and critical theory that are concerned with defining America. Elbeshlawy demonstrates that texts which particularly focus on explaining how other texts about America communicate an unreliable message, themselves communicate an untrustworthy message. Writers and films discussed include Adorno, Kafka, Sontag, Said, Hassan, Dogville and Birth of a Nation.

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