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OurSpace
Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture
by Christine Harold
ISBN: 9780816649549
$24.95 Hardcover
University of Minnesota Press
In OurSpace, Christine Harold examines the deployment and limitations of “culture jamming” by activists. These techniques defy repressive corporate culture through parodies, hoaxes, and pranks. Among the examples of sabotage she analyzes are the magazine Adbusters' spoofs of familiar ads and the Yes Men's impersonations of company spokespersons.
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America Town
Building the Outposts of Empire
by Mark L. Gillem
ISBN: 9780816649532
$24.95 Paperback
University of Minnesota Press
Pub Date: August
In America Town, Mark Gillem reveals modern military outposts as key symbols of not just American power but also consumer consumption. With passion and eloquence he questions the impact of this practice on the rest of the world, exposing the arrogance of U.S. consumption of foreign land.
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Adorno in America
by David Jenemann
ISBN: 9780816648092
$22.95 Paperback
University of Minnesota Press
The German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno was one of the towering intellectual figures of the 20th century, and between 1938 and 1953 he lived in exile in the United States. In the first in-depth account of this period of Adorno's life, David Jenemann examines Adorno's confrontation with the burgeoning American “culture industry” and casts new light on his writings about the mass media.
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Building a Century of Progress
The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair
by Lisa D. Schrenk
ISBN: 9780816648368
$39.95 Hardcover
University of Minnesota Press
In this richly illustrated book, Lisa D. Schrenk explores the pivotal role of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair in modern American architecture. She recounts how the exposition's architectural commission promoted a broad definition of modern architecture, not relying on purely aesthetic characteristics but instead focusing on new design solutions.
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Isherwood on Writing
The Lectures in California
by Christopher Isherwood
edited by James J. Berg
Foreword by Claude Summers
ISBN: 9780816646937
$25.95 Hardcover
University of Minnesota Press
Pub Date: October
In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.” During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft and on spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood.
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