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    Hemispheric American Studies

    Caroline F. Levander (Edited by), Robert S. Levine (Edited by)

    9780813542232

    Paperback / softback, published 4 October 2007

    366 pages, 17 images
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.51 kg

    These superb essays represent cutting edge contributions to the burgeoning field of transnational and hemispheric studies, and expand its scholarship by offering new ways in which scholars might refocus, from the national to the hemispheric and global. This collection's aim to decenter American Studies is an imperative to the evolution of the field.
    - Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Ideas and Society at the Univer)

    This landmark collection brings together a range of exciting new comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. Scholars working in the fields of Latin American studies, Asian American studies, American studies, American literature, African Diaspora studies, and comparative literature address the urgent question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies. The essays take as their starting points such questions as: What happens to American literary, political, historical, and cultural studies if we recognize the interdependency of nation-state developments throughout all the Americas? What happens if we recognize the nation as historically evolving and contingent rather than already formed? Finally, what happens if the "fixed" borders of a nation are recognized not only as historically produced political constructs but also as component parts of a deeper, more multilayered series of national and indigenous histories?

    With essays that examine stamps, cartoons, novels, film, art, music, travel documents, and governmental publications, Hemispheric American Studies seeks to excavate the complex cultural history of texts and discourses across the ever-changing and stratified geopolitical and cultural fields that collectively comprise the American hemisphere. This collection promises to chart new directions in American literary and cultural studies.



    Introduction / Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield
    1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory / JEFF SMITH
    2 Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete / ERICA SHEEN
    3 'A Living Part of the Class Struggle"
    : Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left / FRANK KRUTNIK
    4 A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films / PETER STANFIELD
    5 The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The Lawless / DOUG DIBBERN
    6 Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film / SEAN MCCANN
    7 Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left / WILL STRAW
    8 Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's "
    Naked"
    City / REBECCA PRIME
    9 The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / JENNIFER LANGDON-TECLAW
    10 The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism / ART SIMON
    11 Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen / BRIAN NEVE
    12 Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950's / STEVE NEALE
    13 Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA / MARK SHIEL
    14 Red Hollywood / THOM ANDERSEN
    Afterword THOM ANDERSEN
    Acknowledgments        
    Notes        
    Notes on the Contributors        
    Index
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