Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism

This book considers the complexities of "being patriotic," and in so doing insists that the idea of patriotism, instead of being rejected or embraced, be accorded the complex identity it possesses.

Author: Ella Shohat,Robert Stam
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/19/2006
Pages: 406
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.06w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780415979221

About the Author

Ella Shohat is Professor in the Departments of Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. She is co-author, with Robert Stam, ofUnthinking Eurocentrism, also published by Routledge. Her other books include Talking Visions: Multiculturalism ina Transnational Age, Israeli Cinema: East/West and thePolitics of Representation, and Taboo Memories, Dasporic Voices.Robert Stam is University Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is co-author, with Ella Shohat, of Unthinking Eurocentrism, and, with Robert Burgoyne and Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, of New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, both published by Routledge. His many other books include Film Theory: AnIntroduction, A Companion to Film Theory, Film andTheory: An Anthology, and Tropical Multiculturalism: AComparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema andCulture.