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.
Titles in this Series

Animal Minds, Other Minds
Nonhuman Intelligence and Narrative Form in American Fiction
Victoria Googasian

Poetic Drive
American Poetry in the Age of Automobility
Joel Duncan

No Exit
Contemporary American Literature and the State
Seth McKelvey

Spectacle Earth
Media for Planetary Change
Andrew Kalaidjian

Changed Men
Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II
Erin Lee Mock

We, Us, and Them
Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump
Douglas Dowland

Criminal Cities
The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime
Molly Slavin

Skimpy Coverage
Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female Athlete
Bonnie M. Hagerman

Story Revolutions
Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age
Helga Lenart-Cheng

Institutional Character
Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel
Robert Higney

Walk the Barrio
The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature
Cristina Rodriguez

Fashioning Character
Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature
Lauren S. Cardon

Neoliberal Nonfictions
The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z
Daniel Worden

Dandyism
Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
Len Gutkin

Terrible Beauty
The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature
Marian Eide

Women Writers of the Beat Era
Autobiography and Intertextuality
Mary Paniccia Carden

Stranger America
A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
Josh Toth

Fashion and Fiction
Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Lauren S. Cardon

American Road Narratives
Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film
Ann Brigham

The Arresting Eye
Race and the Anxiety of Detection
Jinny Huh

Failed Frontiersmen
White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance
James J. Donahue

Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Eric Aronoff

Quirks of the Quantum
Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction
Samuel Chase Coale

Male Armor
The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Jon Robert Adams

Chick Lit and Postfeminism
Stephanie Harzewski

American Iconographic
National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination
Stephanie L. Hawkins

Wanted
The Outlaw in American Visual Culture
Rachel Hall

African Americans and the Culture of Pain
Debra Walker King

Against the Unspeakable
Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America
Naomi Mandel

I'm No Angel
The Blonde in Fiction and Film
Ellen Tremper

Visions of the Maid
Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Robin Blaetz

Writing War in the Twentieth Century
Margot Norris

Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia
Nancy Martha West

The Golden Avant-Garde
Idolatry, Commercialism, and Art
Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello