Esthetic experiments : interdisciplinary challenges in American studies /: interdisciplinary challenges in American studies. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Esthetic experiment
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Edyta Just and Marek M. Wojtaszek ; typeset by Marta Kotwas.
• Other Names: Just, Edyta; Wojtaszek, Marek M
• Contents: List of illustrations; introduction -- esthetic experiments; chapter one -- technology and its discontents; chapter two -- in the land of ghost-signs, or william gibson''s spook country; chapter three -- military memoirs and masculinity; chapter four -- humane soldiers; chapter five -- different feminist approaches to reproductive technologies; chapter six -- the centrifugal age; chapter seven -- president goes to hollywood; chapter eight -- simpleton as a symbol of american je-ne-sais-quoi, or a quasi-national icon; chapter nine -- men, women and fame; chapter ten -- pantopia of transference. Chapter eleven -- multiculturalism of american music as a basis of the national composers'' schoolcontributors; index.
• Publisher Details: Newcaste upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 190 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 306.0973; Impact of science & technology on society; Civilization; Landscape; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Civilization; Technology: general issues; Society & culture: general; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443866347; 1443866342
• Related ISBNs: 1443844640; 9781443844642
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.