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Author(s): Sardar, Ziauddin
Reader(s): Davies, Merryl Wyn
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: NA436212
Barcode: 9789626343623
Release Date: 01/2005
SARDAR / DAVIES: American Dream, Global Nightmare
Tracklist
Disc 1
Sardar, Ziauddin - Author
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
|  | 1 | American Dream: Preface | 05:21 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 2 | Introduction: The Ten Laws of American Mythology | 04:56 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 3 | In our earlier work... | 05:04 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 4 | The conundrum of style or substance... | 05:02 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 5 | The 2004 Presidential election could be... | 03:47 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 6 | To non-Americans, America looks like... | 03:55 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 7 | Laws 1-5 | 04:18 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 8 | Laws 6-10 | 04:14 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 9 | Collectively these laws define the nature... | 01:46 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 1: Drums Along the Mohawk | 05:16 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 11 | 'Drums Along the Mohawk' begins where America... | 05:03 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 12 | Historically, America begins with... | 05:07 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 13 | Settlers came to America led by imagery... | 05:36 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 14 | The wilderness-frontier experience... | 05:45 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 15 | Fear and a sense of imminent threat... | 05:25 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 16 | According to Jonathan Jones... | 03:56 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 17 | 'Drums Along the Mohawk' has its own example... | 04:52 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | Chapter 2: Mr Smith goes to Washington | 04:58 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 2 | At the heart of America as a nation... | 04:57 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 3 | There are a number of serious problems... | 04:48 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 4 | Another problem provided by the Constitution... | 04:34 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 5 | The greatest practical departure from... | 05:25 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 6 | America has spawned increasing numbers of... | 04:15 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 7 | If they could look to other advanced... | 04:13 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 3: To Have and Have Not | 06:39 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 9 | 'To Have and Have Not' is a moral... | 05:17 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 10 | The Founding Fathers had no compunction... | 04:02 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 11 | When America sought to externalise... | 06:45 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 12 | Roosevelt was not the only voice urging... | 07:55 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 13 | In the early 20th century the US introduced... | 05:25 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 14 | Myths help us to work out who are the good... | 04:22 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 15 | Chapter 4: The Player | 05:46 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | In the course of 'The Player'... | 05:22 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 2 | But by the time the axe fell on the Patents... | 05:32 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 3 | By the 1920s the Hollywood studio system... | 05:39 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 4 | In the 1930s and 40s... | 05:36 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 5 | This was the empire made by the Hollywood... | 05:58 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 6 | Mythic narrative is always built around the... | 06:20 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 7 | In the opening shot of 'The Player'... | 02:49 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 8 | Chapter 5: Sands of Iwo Jima | 05:18 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 9 | World war produced its own necessity... | 06:57 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 10 | Most of the symbolic moments in America's history... | 05:43 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 11 | The Second World War saw the mass mobilisation... | 06:02 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 12 | National security and security from enemies... | 04:58 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 13 | Real defence spending since 1955... | 05:33 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 14 | The necessity of war is deeply entrenched... | 04:27 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 15 | Chapter 6: Universal Soldier | 03:01 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Genre movies like... | 05:00 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 2 | The idea that America is conceived in global... | 05:49 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 3 | The regenerated human cyborgs of 'Universal Soldier'... | 06:13 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 4 | But most modern-day apologists for... | 04:29 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 5 | Equating democracy with consumerism... | 05:27 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 6 | Like empires of old, the ruling elite... | 05:14 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 7 | Charles Maynes argues that the empire... | 03:50 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 8 | America as global narrative is an... | 04:30 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 9 | Conclusion: Beyond 'Groundhog Day' | 05:40 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 10 | Clearly our reading of American history... | 04:23 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 11 | Religion in America, however, is a potent... | 05:30 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 12 | The war on terror is the ultimate 'Groundhog... | 06:08 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 13 | We have argued that the ten laws of American... | 06:19 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 14 | But this psychosis... | 05:39 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
| | 15 | The 21st century world is an inter-dependent... | 05:09 |
Davies, Merryl Wyn (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 05:17:19