American Obscurantism by Peter Lurie (.ePUB)
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American Obscurantism: History and the Visual in U.S. Literature and Film by Peter Lurie
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Overview: American Obscurantism argues for a salutary indirection in U.S. culture. From its earliest canonical literary works through late twentieth and early twenty-first century film, the most compelling manifestations of America’s troubled history have articulated this content through a unique formal and tonal obscurity. Envisioning the formidable darkness attending racial history at nearly every stage of the republic’s founding and ongoing development, writers such as William Faulkner and Hart Crane or directors like the Coen brothers and Stanley Kubrick present a powerful critique of American conquest, southern plantation culture, and western frontier ideology. The book traces this arc from one of visual history’s notoriously troubled texts: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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