Treats French cuisine as a "fine art," offering both historical background as well as a deep analysis of the social, political, and aesthetic aspects of cuisine and taste.
An examination of the American films of some of the most famous European art-cinema directors. Morrison (film studies, North Carolina State U.) looks at the Hollywood-based work of Lang, Renoir, Leste
By taking Dali's "paranoic-critical method" to the ends that Dali himself advocated, LaFountain (sociology, State U. of West Georgia) shows that Dali's Surrealism anticipates tactics practiced by post
Presents a genealogical survey of the discourses of negation and affirmation associated with the work of Hegel, Adorno, Deleuze, and Guattari, and then turns to the problem of a general economy of com
Defines postmodern writing and distinguishes it from modern writing by citing examples from two modern and three postmodern writers: Italo Calvino, John Barth, Toni Morrison, E. L. Doctorow, and Anton
Postmodern experience is simulated experience, commonly called simulacrum, says Smith (English, Bluefield State College), and those who would read texts of postmodern culture must take it for such. Am