Author Archive for: ‘Peter Limbrick’
Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture
Liam Kennedy, Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0 7486 0952 0 (pb) Pp 224 £16.95 (Review copy supplied by Edinburgh University Press) Uploaded 1 December 2001 Race and Urban Space is one in a series of books from Edinburgh UP entitled “Tendencies: identities, texts, and cultures.” The series editor’s introduction explains that …
Read MorePlaying Empire: Settler Masculinities, Adventure, and Merian C. Cooper’s The Four Feathers (US 1929)
Abstract This essay uses archival and historical material on Merian C. Cooper and the production and promotion of The Four Feathers (U.S. 1929) to demonstrate key aspects of the settler coloniality of the United States in the 1920s. While the film’s narrative tells a familiar story of British imperial culture, its contextual elements are embedded within U.S. settler discourses, which include an …
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