自从爱迪生的视镜第一次捕获了城市观众的心开始，电影就对美国社会产生了革命性的影响，使美国文化天翻地覆，把原本愤世嫉俗的文化变成了声色犬马的文化，并同时确立了美国梦的神话。对于电影的影响，没有任何一本书比《电影创造美国》考察得更清晰、更全面了。 这本极富可读性而又配有丰富插图的著作将电影作为艺术形式、技术革命、商业运作与文化前导进行了审视。它讨论了从道格拉斯•范朋克到西尔维斯特•史泰龙等明星；讨论了从D•W•格里菲斯到马丁•斯科塞斯与斯派克•李等导演；还讨论了从三十年代的神经喜剧到八十年代的“肌肉”电影再到九十年代的独立电影等电影类型。 《电影创造美国》用对几百部影片的详细评论组成了对电影的全景扫描，是所有电影爱好者的必读书。

Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent , for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America , Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, h...(展开全部)

Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent , for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America , Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, h...(展开全部)

'The American dream is dead,' Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'. The 'American Dream' and 'America First' are two of the most loaded phrases in America today, and also two of the most misunderstood. The American Dream began as a pledge for equality rather than as a dream of supremacy and 'ma...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 莎拉·丘奇威尔，伦敦大学高级研究院美国文学教授、公众理解人文学科协会主席。她编著多部作品，现居于伦敦。 【译者简介】 詹涓，武汉大学传播学硕士毕业后任职多家媒体，负责编译及审校工作。业余主要从事二战和战后历史著作翻译，译有《战争的余烬：法兰西殖民帝国的灭亡及美国对越南的干预》。 【媒体评价】 这本书恰逢其时。这也是一本发人深思之作……丘奇威尔是一位优雅的作家， 当“美国优先”和“美国梦”在她书中的第二次世界大战前夕正面交锋时，意想不到（且令人震惊）的历史巧合开始像着了魔的风铃一样产生共鸣……《美国优先和美国梦》阐明了有多少历史是在人们的言与行之间的鸿沟上发生。——《纽约时报》 “美国优先”和“美国梦”盘根错节的历史有了引人入胜的新视角。——《纽约》杂志 丘奇威尔在她的研究中撒下了一张大网，不仅网罗了政治家和专家，还囊括了记者、小说家、牧...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 莎拉·丘奇威尔，伦敦大学高级研究院美国文学教授、公众理解人文学科协会主席。她编著多部作品，现居于伦敦。 【译者简介】 詹涓，武汉大学传播学硕士毕业后任职多家媒体，负责编译及审校工作。业余主要从事二战和战后历史著作翻译，译有《战争的余烬：法兰西殖民帝国的灭亡及美国对越南的干预》。 【媒体评价】 这本书恰逢其时。这也是一本发人深思之作……丘奇威尔是一位优雅的作家， 当“美国优先”和“美国梦”在她书中的第二次世界大战前夕正面交锋时，意想不到（且令人震惊）的历史巧合开始像着了魔的风铃一样产生共鸣……《美国优先和美国梦》阐明了有多少历史是在人们的言与行之间的鸿沟上发生。——《纽约时报》 “美国优先”和“美国梦”盘根错节的历史有了引人入胜的新视角。——《纽约》杂志 丘奇威尔在她的研究中撒下了一张大网，不仅网罗了政治家和专家，还囊括了记者、小说家、牧...(展开全部)

Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have climate changes had on human prosperity and the spirit of invention? In this major new book Wolfgang Behringer introduces us to th...(展开全部)

How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Indi...(展开全部)

How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Indi...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)