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Speculations, fabulations, incantations: Science fiction, contemporary futurology and how to change the world 推测、虚构、咒语：科幻小说、当代未来学和如何改变世界

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00079_1

Julia Grillmayr

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Gutter politics: Graphic novels in the age of Trump 肮脏的政治:特朗普时代的漫画小说

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00070_1

Oliver Gruner

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Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations, Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén (eds) (2021) 《瑞典-美国边境:跨大西洋关系的新历史》，达格·布兰克和亚当·霍瑟姆(编辑)(2021)

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00073_5

R. Johnsen

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Queering the South on Screen, Tison Pugh (ed.) (2020) 《银幕上的南方》，蒂森·皮尤(编著)(2020)

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00072_5

Sabrina Mittermeier

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Exit stage right: Neo-liberalism, cable news and the persistence of Trumpism 退出舞台右：新自由主义、有线电视新闻与特朗普主义的持续

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00067_1

Liane Tanguay

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Nixon, Trump and Washington Behind Closed Doors: Fictionalizing Watergate and the prescience of the historical miniseries 尼克松、特朗普和关起门来的华盛顿:虚构的水门事件和历史迷你剧的先见之明

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00068_1

K. McNally

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The new normal: Activist handmaids and cosplay choreographies in Trump’s America 新常态:在特朗普的美国，激进主义使女和角色扮演编舞

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00071_1

J. Atkins

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Sounds like money? Stock music, television and Donald Trump 听起来像钱?股票音乐，电视和唐纳德·特朗普

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00069_1

Toby Huelin, J. Durand

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Donald Trump, the presidency and the media 唐纳德·特朗普、总统和媒体

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00066_2

K. McNally

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Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment, M. D. Snediker (2021) 偶然性图:慢性疼痛和酷儿化身，m.d. Snediker (2021)

European Journal of American Culture Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00074_5

Benedict Welch

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