American Folklore Films and Videotapes
Author : Center for Southern Folklore
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
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Author : Center for Southern Folklore
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
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Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 1986-02-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253203731
Includes material on interpretation methods and presentation of research.
Author : Center for Southern Folklore
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780892670000
Author : J. Levinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137016671
In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films have played in the ongoing cultural discourse about success and work in America.
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521266864
This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.
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Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Films for the hearing impaired
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0742580237
This lively reader traces the search for American tradition and national identity through folklore and folklife from the 19th century to the present. Through an engaging set of essays, Folk Nation shows how American thinkers and leaders have used folklore to express the meaning of their country. Simon Bronner has carefully selected statements by public intellectuals and popular writers as well as by scholars, all chosen for their readability and significance as provocative texts during their time. The common thread running throughout is the value of folklore in expressing or denying an American national tradition. This text raises timely issues about the character of American culture and the direction of American society. The essays show the development of views of American nationalism, multiculturalism, and commercialism. Provocative topics include debates over the relationship between popular culture and folk culture, the uniqueness of an American literature and arts based on folk sources, the fabrication of folk heroes such as Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan as propaganda for patriotism and nationalism, the romanticizations of vernacular culture by popularizers such as Walt Disney and Ben Botkin, the use of folklore for ethnocentric purposes, and the political deployment of folklore by conservatives as emblems of 'traditional values' and civil virtues and by liberals as emblems of multiculturalism and tolerance of alternative lifestyles. The book also traces the controversy over who conveyed the myth of 'America.' Was it the nation's poets and artists, its academics, its politicians and leaders, its communities and local educational institutions, its theme parks and festivals, its movie moguls and entertainers? Folk Nation shows how the process of defining the American mystique through folklore was at the core of debates among writers and thinkers about the value of Davey Crockett, John Henry, quilts, cowboys, and immigrants as symbols of America.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher :
Page : 1572 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
ISBN :