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Joan Hawkins - Wounded Galaxies 1968, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Wounded Galaxies 1968

Geopolitics and Culture Wars

Av Joan Hawkins

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Wounded Galaxies 1968 examines the relationship between radical politics, radical aesthetics, radical culture, and the legacy of a watershed year for the world. Like the Surrealists before them, 1968's counterculture believed that changing the world (politics) and changing art (life, culture) were part of the same project.This year saw violent protests and uprisings, including those at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago; the Prague Spring and subsequent Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia; the Tlatelolco massacre of students in Mexico City; France's Mai 1968; and further uprisings across Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. The Vietnam War was nearing its peak with the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai massacre; Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. Yet it was also the year of Rosemary's Baby and the Beatles' White Album; Apollo 8 became the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon; and the first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held at Chicago's Soldier Field. Combining original contemporary documents with scholarly essays and memoirs, Wounded Galaxies 1968 asks readers to consider the geopolitical alongside the cultural, inviting us to make some of the same intellectual and emotional connections that contemporaries did back then. An engaging cultural critique of a tumultuous year, Wounded Galaxies 1968 demonstrates that, while changing the world proved frustratingly difficult, changing life was largely successful with significant transformations across society, education, and the arts – changes whose impacts have continued to be felt in the United States and Western Europe well into the twenty-first century.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-08-04
  • Mått: 251 x 37 x 141 mm
  • Vikt: 1 065 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 562
  • Förlag: Indiana University Press
  • ISBN: 9780253076076
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Joan Hawkins is Professor Emeritus of Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde as well as editor (with Alex Wermer-Colan) of William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century.Joseph E. Roskos earned his master's degree in media arts and sciences from Indiana University. His research has appeared in Black Camera, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Human Communication Research, and Journalism. He is an educational assistant for the Willoughby-Eastlake School District in Ohio.Anthony L. Silvestri received his doctorate in media arts and sciences from Indiana University. His research has appeared in The Moving Image, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Porn Studies, and The Journal of Film and Video. He is the journals manager for the University of Minnesota Press.

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"Wounded Galaxies 1968 explores 'the symbiotic relationship of the radical art, culture and politics of that time,' acknowledging the 'contentious . . . . conflicting, sometimes contradictory' nature of that period's radical discourses. At the same time, Hawkins acknowledges concerns that reforms dating back to 1968 are being eviscerated in the United States, thus necessitating their reexamination. Given current American politics, such concerns must now only be amplified but make this volume still more timely."—Robert C. Cottrell, author of The Activist 1960s: Striving for Political and Social Empowerment in America"There are few critical histories quite like this one, and none that I am aware of that address this period in history. As such, as an edited collection it offers a significant contribution in the way it explicitly asks readers to think about intersections and overlaps across space, time, actions, and practices that most monographs or other collections don't or can't due to the scale such broad framing requires. The strength of this book is that it is a multidisciplinary collage, revealing new meanings to and in the history of this critical year."—Wyatt D. Philips, coeditor of Camp TV of the 1960s: Reassessing the Vast Wasteland

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