America in literature and film
Subtitle: modernist perceptions, postmodernist representations
By: Ahmed Elbeshlawy
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781409425250; 9781409425267
Subjects: In motion pictures; Foreign public opinion; National characteristics, American, in literature; History and criticism; Modern Literature; United States; Civilization; In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : approaching America; title: Modernist perceptions. The epical American self and the psychotic phenomenon; title: D. H. Lawrence's radical criticism of America; title: The fiction of the castrating power of America : Kafka's dream; title: Adorno's fascist America; title: Postmodernist representations. America : a "stereotype" and a "beautiful imperialist"; title: America : the invincible and the surreal; title: Dogville : Lars von Trier's desexualized America; title: Said's America : America's Said; title: Hassan's radical identification with America; title: Coda : America as an unrealized idea.