From the West Indies of her great grandmother's youth to the rural Mississippi South of her own, Alexandria Ashford takes us on a journey through memory, heartbreak, loss, and sometimes joy. Her startling imagery and unique sense of moment combine to bring us to new levels of understanding in terms of what it means to be human. Her work has been published in such journals as Review Americana, Expressionists, Rose Thorn, South Jersey Underground, and Chopper. DANKE SCHOEN is her first poetry collection.

Danke Schoen

Literature & Fiction

Ashford, Alexandria

Poetry

Press Americana

14 Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture is a collection of interviews with some of the most fascinating researchers and writers in American Studies. Robert Allen, Arthur Asa Berger, Ray Browne, Paul Cantor, Floyd Cheung, Craig Detweiler, Marshall Fishwick, Mitchell K. Hall, E. Ann Kaplan, Tracey Laird, George Lipsitz, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Peter Rollins, and Iain Topliss take us on a journey through the history of popular culture studies and such cultural subjects as soap operas, shopping, television, film, religion, sports, war, motherhood, music, and comics.

14 Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture

History

Wilson, Leslie

Americas

Americana: Readings in Popular Culture is a collection of essays examining American culture from 1900 to present. Dozens of scholars investigate five aspects of our society offering unique and original insights into "What We Hear," "What We Watch," "What We Read," "Where We Go," and "The American Identity."

Americana: Readings in Popular Culture

Leslie Wilson

Reel Histories: Studies in American Film is an essay collection that extends the academic dialogue concerning the holy trinity of race, social class, and gender as they are constructed on the screen while also examining aspects of the film industry that are often ignored: the means and politics of film production and distribution, audience reception, the role and influence of film criticism, film's intersections with other media, and many other modes of approach stemming from particularities of historical, sociological, and cultural situation. Nine scholars, analyzing such films as From Here to Eternity, A Raisin in the Sun, Midnight Cowboy, Magnolia, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, The X Files, and Saving Private Ryan, go far beyond close readings approaching the films as matrices of intersecting voices located in particular socio-cultural moments participating in significant historical trajectories. These essays insightfully examine how specific films have functioned in American history, their provenance and their subsequent effects, both actual and potential.

Reel Histories: Studies in American Film

Humor & Entertainment

Melissa Croteau

Movies

Americana: Readings in Popular Culture, Revised Edition, is a collection of essays examining American culture from 1900 to present. Dozens of scholars investigates five aspects of our society offering unique and original insights into "What We Hear," "What We Watch," "What We Read," "Where We Go," and "The American Identity."

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sehnsucht

Savoie, John

Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Holmes, Katherine L.

Mystery

Winner of Prize Americana, The Mares of Lenin Park is the story of Uli, a fourteen-year-old Cuban boy, who struggles to reconcile his deceased fathers heroic past with his mother Gracielas new marriage. Finding it more and more difficult to live in the economic times of Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union, Uli learns that the Revolutionaries are closer than expected - importing drugs to support the failing economy. These discoveries catapult him into a journey involving work camps, murder, and a voyage at sea.

The Mares of Lenin Park

Martinez, Agustin D.

United States

Winner of Prize Americana, Howie Good's Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements contains poems that feature a penetrating analysis of contemporary life.

Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements

Good, Howie

After being hauled out of a Vietnamese rice paddy in 1969 and then spending months in various neuropsychiatric wards in the United States, David Holdridge evolved to become a stalwart in the promotion of the American narrative overseas. As such, the author witnessed that "business" grow from a rather lonely pursuit to the global industry it is today – most commonly known in the West as "Overseas Relief and Development." THE AVANT GARDE OF WESTERN CIV is the story of one "foot soldier" and his family as they sought to provide salve and transformation within the aftermath of the Iraq invasion in 2003. This memoir explores how difficult and often complicit "giving" can be.

The Avant Garde of Western CIV

Biographies & Memoirs

Holdridge, David

Leaders & Notable People

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