David R Shumway

Rock Star: The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen

"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at the...

John Sayles (Contemporary Film Directors)

John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expres...

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with accompanying theory. Numerous examples using nontrivial data illustrate solutions to problems such as discovering natural and anthropogenic climate change, evaluat...

Michel Foucault

This is an overview of Foucault's work. A principal architect of poststructuralism, Michel Foucault reshaped the varied disciplines of history, philosophy, literary theory, and social science. With fellow theorists Jacques Derrida, Foucault repeatedly challenged our assumptions, beliefs and expectat...

Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives

These provocative essays explore the unwritten, often unacknowledged codes, conventions, and ideologies overseeing the evolution and current practice of English as a discipline. The first section of the book offers historical perspectives: how composition became distinguished from literature, how ke...

Making and Selling Culture

To what extent do moviemakers, television and radio producers, advertising executives, and marketers merely reflect trends, beliefs, and desires that already exist in our culture, and to what extent do they consciously shape our culture to their own ends? In-depth interviews with ten executives from...

Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity (Knowledge: Disciplinarity and Beyond)

The editors of this volume have brought together a distinguished and truly diverse group of contributors to examine how all sorts of knowledges have been constituted and to reconsider their constitution.

Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline (American Culture)

Book by Shumway, David

Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity

Knowledges: Historical and Critical Studies in Disciplinarity

Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature As an Academic Discipline

Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature As an Academic Discipline

Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives

Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives

The Aesthetics Of Cultural Studies

Michel Foucault