Media spectacles. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock & Rebecca L. Walkowitz.
• Other Names: Garber, Marjorie B; Matlock, Jann, 1955-; Walkowitz, Rebecca L, 1970-
• Contents: Body and soul murder : JFK / Michael Rogin -- Character assassination : Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK / Marjorie Garber -- Reproducing reality : Murphy Brown and illegitimate politics / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- Watching and authorizing the Gulf War / Elaine Scarry -- "No bad nigger" : Blacks as the ethical principle in the movies / K. Anthony Appiah -- Cortez in the courts : the traps of translation from newsprint to film / Doris Sommer -- Power shortages : the Soviet coup and Hurricane Bob / Svetlana Boym -- Scandals of naming : the blue blob, identity, and gender in the William Kennedy Smith Case / Jann Matlock -- Lesbian spectacles : reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The accused / Barbara Johnson -- Throwing up/going down : Bushusuru; or, the fall of the West / Lee Edelman -- Monsters of perversion : Jeffrey Dahmer and The silence of the lambs / Diana Fuss. Grafting David Cronenberg : monstrosity, AIDS media, nation/sexual difference / Andrew Parker -- Kimberly Bergalis, AIDS, and the plague metaphor / Katharine Park -- Accommodating Magic / Douglas Crimp.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 302.23/0973; Mass media -- United States; Mass media; Massamedia; Journalistiek; Massenmedien; Aufsatzsammlung; United States; USA; USA; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135200565; 1135200564
• 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.