85 research outputs found
Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West
No full textSusan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Pp. 294; ISBN 978 0 8032 2699 9. Alessandra Magrin Susan Kollin’s ambitious monograph on the exchanges between the American West and the Middle East in popular culture opens with a fundamental observation: that the Western was “never merely national, but always transnational and global” (35). By overcoming the impasse of a field bound to national narratives for too long, ..
Giovanni Astengo in Umbria (1952-1972)
No full textLa ventennale attività di Giovanni Astengo – come urbanista, architetto e pianificatore – in Umbria permette di individuare questa regione come uno dei suoi “laboratori”, come lo saranno prima il Piemonte e più tardi la Toscana, e nello specifico quello nel quale la sua attenzione si è più felicemente orientata a risolvere i problemi della città storica e del territorio di antico insediamento. Se da Assisi e Gubbio verranno i suoi primi incarichi per la redazione di piani regolatori, sul loro territorio Astengo elabora e sperimenta un metodo di lavoro e di intervento che segnerà la cultura urbanistica e architettonica italiana e che il saggio va ad illustrare criticamente. E non a caso è a Gubbio che, con il supporto di molti enti pubblici umbri, viene organizzato il primo Convegno nazionale per la salvaguardia e il risanamento dei centri storici, quello che produrrà la prima “Carta” per i centri storici e la nascita dell’ANCSA
David M. Wrobel, Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
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Pawel Goral, Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West
No full textIn his first monograph, Cold War Rivalry and the Perception of the American West, Pawel Goral, History lecturer at the University of Texas, Arlington, employs the myth of the American West as a critical lens to address the fascinating, albeit complex, theme of cultural memory and identity-building in Cold-War-divided-Germany. Goral’s thesis argues how the two spheres of political influence shaped opposing views of the Western myth, and how each block respectively deployed it to accommodate their own nationalistic needs. This contributed, the author claims, to fill the cultural void left in the aftermath of the Third Reich, as well as to the formation of a unified sense of Germanness after the fall of the Iron Curtain
György Ferenc Tóth, From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War
No full textGyörgy Ferenc Tóth, From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2016. Pp. 332. isbn 978 1 4384 6121 2. Alessandra Magrin György Tóth’s book, From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie, offers a revealing and captivating account of the transatlantic associations between the American Indian Sovereignty Alliance and Mitteleuropa. This topic stems from the p..
Bernice M. Murphy, The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture, Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wildernes
No full textBernice M. Murphy, popular literature lecturer at Dublin’s Trinity College, opens her wide-ranging survey of The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture with a telling remark: “it is no coincidence that when American authors and film-makers fantasise about the end of civilisation as they know it, they so often produce narratives which unconsciously evoke the beginnings of European settlement”(2). Indeed, a body of scholarship in gothic fiction (Fiedler, Goddu, Lloyd-Smith) concurs in tracing back the trope of the inherent monstrosity and grotesqueness of the American wilderness and its inhabitants to the literary production that stemmed out of the earliest days of the New World’s conquest, ranging from travellers’ memoirs to captivity tales and puritan novels
Rough riders in the cradle of civilization : Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Italy and the challenge of American cultural scarcity at the fin-de-siècle
No full textComparisons with European culture have often generated feelings of discomfort and anxiety in the United States. Since the age of the Enlightenment, American culture has been associated with a desert or wasteland. This conceptual inclination persisted well into the 19th century − when several American writers picked up on the perceived dearth of culture that the American intellectual landscape offered − until the Gilded Age, when the United States powerfully asserted itself as an economic and industrial power. Cultural affirmation remained, therefore, the last frontier for America to conquer. In this context, the soft power operated by Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show in Europe proved to be a tremendous tool for the assertion of American cultural vitality on a worldwide scale. America’s ultimate validation, I argue, was established when Cody’s show landed in Italy, ‘the cradle of western civilization’, a stage which exuded a powerful significance in the sphere of culture, and which Cody orchestrated as a symbolic translatio imperii, by picturing himself as a Novel Columbus and America as the vessel of human progress. The resonance of Cody’s Italian tours had a regenerating effect on America; witnessing Italian culture in a moment of profound decadence fostered America’s collective confidence in its cultural superiority and confirmed its newfangled ‘exceptionalism’
Premiers voyageurs italiens à la Frontière nord-américaine : des sources peu connues dans la création du mythe de l’Ouest Sauvage
No full textDepuis l’époque des « grands navigateurs », Colomb, Cabot, Vespucci et Verrazzano, l’Italie a toujours entretenu une relation privilégiée avec la Frontière américaine. C’est grâce à leurs chroniques que la mémoire collective de l’ensemble des pays occidentaux s’est développée au cours des siècles, à partir d’un répertoire d’images de l’Amérique aussi riche que complexe. Cependant, ce n’est que plus tard, pendant le xixe siècle, que les représentations..
Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) after Liver Transplantation: A Risk Factor for Long-Term Medical Complications Other Than Malignancy
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