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Journal Article
Genre (2016) 49 (2): 213–229.
Published: 01 July 2016
... what
Christopher Lasch (1984, 15) calls the “minimal self” of the Ronald Reagan and
post-Reagan era:
In a time of troubles, everyday life becomes an exercise in survival. People take
one day at a time. . . . Under these conditions, selfhood becomes a kind of luxury...
Journal Article
Genre (2022) 55 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the era. This was also shown by the Reagan administration's reaction to the film. The president watched it at release and immediately demanded to know whether the film's plot could become reality. The House Report tied to the Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act the following year...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Genre (2005) 38 (4): 327–352.
Published: 01 December 2005
... revival of WWII. That Saddam bore no real
resemblance militarily to Hitler didn't matter; the Reagan-Bush impetus was to
heal old sores and lay the groundwork for the next era; exorcising the ghost of
Vietnam by making the Gulf War seem noble was part of that mission. For part
of the failing...
Journal Article
Genre (2005) 38 (4): 353–370.
Published: 01 December 2005
... but more powerfully with Reagan in the 1980s, they carried the
banner of "family values" and used it to blame the Democrats for what conserva-
tives saw as the unraveling of society in the 1960s. "Bad" families were destroy-
364 GENRE
ing the country...
Journal Article
Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 21–39.
Published: 01 September 2009
... for Oliver Stone's JFK, "a movie about the
assassination so ridiculous that no one in American ever took the topic seriously again" (210). They
also, the professor explains, installed Ronald Reagan in power within the Republican party (212-
13)—the list of their claimed achievements could go...
Journal Article
Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., and, as numerous pundits have noted, debates
that go back to the founding of the republic. Whether we date the beginnings of
right-wing populism to the administration of Ronald Reagan from 1980 to 1988,
or to the (for its time) controversial presidential run of Barry Goldwater in 1964,
or earlier...
Journal Article
Genre (2001) 34 (3-4): 307–337.
Published: 01 September 2001
... OVER
By 1990, the Soviet Union, the "Evil Empire" that Ronald Reagan and Mar-
garet Thatcher decried, was in the final stages of disintegration—not so much
conquered by its enemies, but rather collapsing under its own weight when its
center would not hold in the wake of economic crises...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (2): 225–226.
Published: 01 June 2000
... or at best indifference toward Marxist thought that has
dominated American intellectual life at least since the end of the Sixties. This
hostility reached its height in the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet
Union, which saw the triumph of anti-Marxist Reaganism in mass culture and
232...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (2): 227–230.
Published: 01 June 2000
... or at best indifference toward Marxist thought that has
dominated American intellectual life at least since the end of the Sixties. This
hostility reached its height in the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet
Union, which saw the triumph of anti-Marxist Reaganism in mass culture and
232...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (2): 231–236.
Published: 01 June 2000
... or at best indifference toward Marxist thought that has
dominated American intellectual life at least since the end of the Sixties. This
hostility reached its height in the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet
Union, which saw the triumph of anti-Marxist Reaganism in mass culture and
232...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (2): 237–238.
Published: 01 June 2000
... life at least since the end of the Sixties. This
hostility reached its height in the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet
Union, which saw the triumph of anti-Marxist Reaganism in mass culture and
232 GENRE
post-Marxist postmodernism in academic culture...
Journal Article
Genre (2000) 33 (2): 239–240.
Published: 01 June 2000
... life at least since the end of the Sixties. This
hostility reached its height in the years leading up to the collapse of the Soviet
Union, which saw the triumph of anti-Marxist Reaganism in mass culture and
232 GENRE
post-Marxist postmodernism in academic culture...
Journal Article
Genre (2005) 38 (1-2): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., and Chavez's life had
been threatened several times. In late August the 1968 Democratic National
Convention convened in Chicago; wary of committing the Union to a single can-
didate, Chavez sent his colleague Dolores Huerte to serve as a delegate in his
place. In September California Governor Reagan...
Journal Article
Genre (2023) 56 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ( 1982 ) was among the first major figures in US literary studies to recognize that the task of providing undergraduates with knowledge of a rarified set of canonical texts might prove an unstable foundation for the discipline. By the time of the book's publication in the early years of the Reagan...
