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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “patrick adamson”
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  • Projecting America

    The Epic Western and National Mythmaking in 1920s Hollywood

    by Patrick Adamson ...
    Series series The Popular West
    In the mid-1920s, the heyday of silent film, the epic Western swept Hollywood and the nation. Movie moguls sought to add gravitas to their output with the productions—films they argued offered American audiences authentic history and lessons in citizenship at a time when Hollywood faced criticism for its movies’ morals and star scandals. Initially extremely popular, these now nearly forgotten ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Transnationalism and Imperialism

    Endurance of the Global Western Film

    by Hervé Mayer, David Roche, Patrick Adamson, Costanza Salvi, Marine Soubeille, Dragan Batančev, Hadrien Fontanaud, Marek Paryż, Jesús Ángel González, Alessandra Magrin Haas, Lee Broughton, Mike Phillips, Jenny Barrett, Vivian P. Y. Lee, Claire Dutriaux, Annael Le Poullennec, Emma Hamilton ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    While Western films can be seen as a mode of American exceptionalism, they have also become a global genre. Around the world, Westerns exemplify colonial cinema, driven by the exploration of racial and gender hierarchies and the progress and violence shaped by imperialism.Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film traces the Western from the silent era to present day as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Tell Me Where She's Buried

    by Patrick Logan ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...
    Series series Striker and Frost FBI Thriller

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Eleven years ago, Los Angeles was terrorized by The Sandman, a serial killer who claimed at least twelve women's lives. Young FBI Agent Constantine 'Con' Striker stopped him, but not before enduring a devastating personal loss—his twin sister, Valerie, vanished. He believes that his sister was one of The Sandman's victims. Even after a decade on death row and confessing to twelve murders, The ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Tell Me What You've Done

    by Patrick Logan ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...
    Series series Striker and Frost FBI Thriller

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    Los Angeles is once again gripped by fear as a brutal predator stalks the streets. It's up to FBI Agents Constantine "Con" Striker and Alex Frost to stop them. But the case takes a darker turn when the crimes don't cease, even after an arrest is made.As Con battles his own demons and the unresolved fate of his sister Valerie, he must navigate a treacherous path filled with false leads and hidden ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Tell Me Where They've Gone

    by Patrick Logan ...
    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...
    Series series Striker and Frost FBI Thriller

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    FBI Agent Constantine Striker has lost everything—his job, his partner, his family—and he's no closer to solving the decade-long mystery of his sister's disappearance.Alex Frost's career is in free fall. Branded a pariah after teaming up with Con, she's one mistake away from being fired.The last thing they need is to work together again. But with Con closing in on his sister's fate and Alex ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Eco: The Little Electric Taxi

    by Deb Adamson ...
    Illustrated by Patrick Corrigan ...
    For fans of Little Blue Truck and Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site comes an adorable electric taxi cab who saves the day in this sweet picture book—with an eco-friendly twist!Eco, the little electric taxi, and his driver, Charlie, work day and night—helping people get where they need to go. On the way to a school drop-off, Eco and Charlie find themselves stuck in a huge traffic jam—there are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Killing the Indian Maiden

    Images of Native American Women in Film

    by M. Elise Marubbio ...
    Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden"—a young Native woman who allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Native American Renaissance

    Literary Imagination and Achievement

    Edited by Alan R. Velie, A. Robert Lee ...
    Series series American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
    The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A History of Western American Literature

    Edited by Susan Kollin ...
    The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and expectations. While it is frequently imagined as a place enabling dreams of new beginnings for ... Read more

    $105.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

    Edited by John N. Duvall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Documentary Film Reader

    History, Theory, Criticism

    Edited by Jonathan Kahana ...
    Bringing together an expansive range of writing by scholars, critics, historians, and filmmakers, The Documentary Film Reader presents an international perspective on the most significant developments and debates from several decades of critical writing about documentary. Each of the book's seven sections covers a distinct period in the history of documentary, collecting both contemporary and ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Gunfighter Nation

    The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

    by Richard Slotkin ...
    Series Book 3 - Mythology of the American West
    National Book Award Finalist: The "impressive" conclusion to the "magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history" ( Film Quarterly)."The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites' conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ... Read more

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