Skip to main content

University of Virginia Press

Cultural Frames, Framing Culture

The Cultural Frames, Framing Culture series examines both the way our culture frames our narratives and the way our narratives produce the culture that frames them. Attempting to bridge the gap between previously disparate disciplines, and combining theoretical issues with practical applications, this series invites a broad audience to read contemporary culture in a fresh and provocative way.

Series Editor: Robert Newman; Associate Series Editor: Justin D. Neuman
UVA Editor(s): Angie Hogan

Titles in this Series

Animal Minds, Other Minds

Animal Minds, Other Minds

Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction

Victoria Googasian

Poetic Drive

Poetic Drive

American Poetry in the Age of Automobility

Joel Duncan

No Exit

No Exit

Contemporary American Literature and the State

Seth McKelvey

Spectacle Earth

Spectacle Earth

Media for Planetary Change

Andrew Kalaidjian

Changed Men

Changed Men

Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II

Erin Lee Mock

We, Us, and Them

We, Us, and Them

Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump

Douglas Dowland

Criminal Cities

Criminal Cities

The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime

Molly Slavin

Skimpy Coverage

Skimpy Coverage

Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete

Bonnie M. Hagerman

Story Revolutions

Story Revolutions

Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age

Helga Lenart-Cheng

Institutional Character

Institutional Character

Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel

Robert Higney

Walk the Barrio

Walk the Barrio

The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

Cristina Rodriguez

Fashioning Character

Fashioning Character

Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature

Lauren S. Cardon

Neoliberal Nonfictions

Neoliberal Nonfictions

The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z

Daniel Worden

Dandyism

Dandyism

Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present

Len Gutkin

Terrible Beauty

Terrible Beauty

The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature

Marian Eide

Women Writers of the Beat Era

Women Writers of the Beat Era

Autobiography and Intertextuality

Mary Paniccia Carden

Stranger America

Stranger America

A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion

Josh Toth

Fashion and Fiction

Fashion and Fiction

Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Lauren S. Cardon

American Road Narratives

American Road Narratives

Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film

Ann Brigham

The Arresting Eye

The Arresting Eye

Race and the Anxiety of Detection

Jinny Huh

Failed Frontiersmen

Failed Frontiersmen

White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance

James J. Donahue

Composing Cultures

Composing Cultures

Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture

Eric Aronoff

Quirks of the Quantum

Quirks of the Quantum

Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction

Samuel Chase Coale

Male Armor

Male Armor

The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture

Jon Robert Adams

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Chick Lit and Postfeminism

Stephanie Harzewski

American Iconographic

American Iconographic

National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination

Stephanie L. Hawkins

Wanted

Wanted

The Outlaw in American Visual Culture

Rachel Hall

African Americans and the Culture of Pain

African Americans and the Culture of Pain

Debra Walker King

Against the Unspeakable

Against the Unspeakable

Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America

Naomi Mandel

I'm No Angel

I'm No Angel

The Blonde in Fiction and Film

Ellen Tremper

Visions of the Maid

Visions of the Maid

Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Robin Blaetz

Writing War in the Twentieth Century

Writing War in the Twentieth Century

Margot Norris

Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia

Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia

Nancy Martha West

The Golden Avant-Garde

The Golden Avant-Garde

Idolatry, Commercialism, and Art

Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello