Paula Rabinowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 292767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Rabinowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabinowitz |
| SIGNATURE | RABINOWITZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | English and Foreign Languages University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow
Noir Affect
It’s Still There
Daniel Blaufuks’s video Als Ob/As If formally interrogates the history of Holocaust imagery using a close visual examination of the 1944 “Staged Nazi Film” shot in Thereseinstadt. Layering his footage from present-day Terezín with a number of earlier films and television shows shot at or about the Nazi concentration camp, he contemplates the role of the image, both still and moving, in the creation of memory and history of the Holocaust. His vide…
Masking: (A Response to David Marriott's “Corpsing; or, The Matter of Black Life”)
Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s U.S. Culture
Journal Article Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s U.S. Culture Get access By Steven Dillon. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. x, 321 pp. $95.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1248–1249, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav707 Published: 01 March 2016
Red Love Across the Pacific
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century. Encouraging both political and sexual liberation, Red Love was a transnational movement demonstrating the revolutionary potential of love and desire
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Street/Crime: From Rodney King's Beating to Michael Brown's Shooting
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Journal Article American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street Get access By Paula Rabinowitz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xviii, 390 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 922–923, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav570 Published: 01 December 2015
American Pulp
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
Book Review| March 01 2010 Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State Paula Rabinowitz Paula Rabinowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 198–200. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-080 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son
Book Review| December 01 2007 A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son Clancy Sigal New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006 xii + 289 pp., $26.00 (cloth) Paula Rabinowitz Paula Rabinow…
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
The Woman in the Window: Esther Bubley Invents Noir
World War II provided many working and lower middle class women with the possibility of a more independent lifestyle as the war effort demanded their labour. Hired by the Office of War Information, photographer Esther Bubley documented the lives of these uprooted women flocking to big cities in search of jobs. But her pictures didn't just document the realities of work and leisure. As Paula Rabinowitz suggests, she also came to invent the icons o…
Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism
Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural detritus blowing across the postwar landscape, finding in pulp a political theory that helps explain America's fascination with lurid spectacles of crime. W…
Medium Uncool: Women Shoot Back; Feminism, Film and 1968 — a Curious Documentary
A microhistory of the interconnections — both literal, through personal relations, and theoretical — between radical feminism and avant-garde film culture views culture as a model for politics during the 1960s. In short, radical feminism owed much of its rhetoric and practice to avant-garde film. Beginningwith the screenings of Schmeerguntz , feminists moved against female stereotypes with the Miss America action (to get media coverage), document…
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism Be Posthuman?
"What Film Noir Can Teach Us about "Welfare as We Know It
Social Text - 62 (Volume 18, Number 1), Spring 2000
Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur . Constance Coiner Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst . N…
Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism . Marianne DeKoven 1915, the Cultural Moment: The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art and the New Theatre in America . Adele Helle…
Again, the Thirties
Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
Wreckage upon Wreckage: History, Documentary and the Ruins of Memory
Voyeurism and Class Consciousness: "James Agee and Walker Evans, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
f one takes Barthes at his word, then all the comfortable categories by which we have theorized gender, history, and representation-such as the capitalist separation of the spheres of production and reproduction, the public and domestic, masculine and feminine, disappear at the very moment of their inception. By bringing the images of daily life and ordinary people into public view, photography remakes vision and in so doing produces (or reproduc…
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Journal Article American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street Get access By Paula Rabinowitz. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. xviii, 390 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 922–923, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav570 Published: 01 December 2015
Wreckage upon Wreckage: History, Documentary and the Ruins of Memory
Street/Crime: From Rodney King's Beating to Michael Brown's Shooting
Voyeurism and Class Consciousness: "James Agee and Walker Evans, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
f one takes Barthes at his word, then all the comfortable categories by which we have theorized gender, history, and representation-such as the capitalist separation of the spheres of production and reproduction, the public and domestic, masculine and feminine, disappear at the very moment of their inception. By bringing the images of daily life and ordinary people into public view, photography remakes vision and in so doing produces (or reproduc…
Seeing through the Gendered I: Feminist Film Theory
Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940
Seeing through the Gendered I: Feminist Film Theory
A Long Road Home: In the Footsteps of the WPA Writers
Voyeurism and Class Consciousness: "James Agee and Walker Evans, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
f one takes Barthes at his word, then all the comfortable categories by which we have theorized gender, history, and representation-such as the capitalist separation of the spheres of production and reproduction, the public and domestic, masculine and feminine, disappear at the very moment of their inception. By bringing the images of daily life and ordinary people into public view, photography remakes vision and in so doing produces (or reproduc…
Labor & Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Journal Article Labor & Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. By Paula Rabinowitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xiv + 222 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-1994-8. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4332-6.) Get access James D. Bloom James D. Bloom Muhlenberg College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages …
The Proletarian Moment: The Controversy over Leftism in Literature
Journal Article The Proletarian Moment: The Controversy over Leftism in Literature. By James F. Murphy. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. xii + 221 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-252-01788-9.) Get access Paula Rabinowitz Paula Rabinowitz University of Minnesota Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Page 1227, https://doi.org/10.2307/20809…
Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
Wreckage upon Wreckage: History, Documentary and the Ruins of Memory
Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism . Marianne DeKoven 1915, the Cultural Moment: The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art and the New Theatre in America . Adele Helle…
Again, the Thirties
Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur . Constance Coiner Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst . N…
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism Be Posthuman?
"What Film Noir Can Teach Us about "Welfare as We Know It
Social Text - 62 (Volume 18, Number 1), Spring 2000
Medium Uncool: Women Shoot Back; Feminism, Film and 1968 — a Curious Documentary
A microhistory of the interconnections — both literal, through personal relations, and theoretical — between radical feminism and avant-garde film culture views culture as a model for politics during the 1960s. In short, radical feminism owed much of its rhetoric and practice to avant-garde film. Beginningwith the screenings of Schmeerguntz , feminists moved against female stereotypes with the Miss America action (to get media coverage), document…
Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism
Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cultural detritus blowing across the postwar landscape, finding in pulp a political theory that helps explain America's fascination with lurid spectacles of crime. W…
The Woman in the Window: Esther Bubley Invents Noir
World War II provided many working and lower middle class women with the possibility of a more independent lifestyle as the war effort demanded their labour. Hired by the Office of War Information, photographer Esther Bubley documented the lives of these uprooted women flocking to big cities in search of jobs. But her pictures didn't just document the realities of work and leisure. As Paula Rabinowitz suggests, she also came to invent the icons o…
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, rac…
A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son
Book Review| December 01 2007 A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son Clancy Sigal New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006 xii + 289 pp., $26.00 (cloth) Paula Rabinowitz Paula Rabinow…
Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State
Book Review| March 01 2010 Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration; Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State Paula Rabinowitz Paula Rabinowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 198–200. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-080 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
American Pulp
American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Red Love Across the Pacific
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century. Encouraging both political and sexual liberation, Red Love was a transnational movement demonstrating the revolutionary potential of love and desire
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Street/Crime: From Rodney King's Beating to Michael Brown's Shooting
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