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Gangster Noir in Midcentury America.

From Hegel to Madonna presents a genealogical survey of the discourses of negation and affirmation associated with the work of Hegel, Adorno, Deleuze, and Guattari, then, rotating from the philosophical to the political-economic axis, turns to the problem of a general economy of "commodity-fetishism." Drawing on the work of Marx and Freud, Miklitsch mobilizes a new, renewed understanding of "commodity fetishism"--what he calls the commodity-bo...

Robert Miklitsch is a professor in the department of English language and literature at Ohio University. He is the author of Siren City: Sound and Source Music in American Film Noir.

Robert Miklitsch is a professor in the department of English language and literature at Ohio University. He is the author of Siren City: Sound and Source Music in American Film Noir.

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Moves from the discourses of dialectical negation to cultural-populist affirmation -- that is, from Hegel to Madonna Studies -- in order to envision a mode of critique that can persuasively describe and explain the cultural contradictions of late capitalism.From Hegel to Madonna presents a genealogical survey of the discourses of negation and affirmation associated with the work of Hegel, Adorno, Deleuze, and Guattari, then, rotating from the ...

Robert Miklitsch is a professor in the department of English language and literature at Ohio University. He is the editor of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir.

Robert Miklitsch is a professor in the department of English language and literature at Ohio University. He is the editor of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir.

Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.

The undercutting of the distinction between classical and rock music is one of the great insights of this book. Miklitsch sees how classical music is not really autonomous in the way that someone that Adorno would claim. It instead, suffers from the same heteronomy that infects rock music. By working to eliminate the barrier between high and low, the author helps to open us up to a whole new way of experiencing the aesthetic, a mode of experie...

Siren City illustrates how sound tracks in 1940s film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics. Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, it resonates with the sounds and source music of classic American noir-gunshots and sirens, swing riffs and canaries. Along with the proverbial private eye and femme fatale, these audiovisuals are central t...