American Cultural Studies: A Reader
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 June 2000
- ISBN 9780198742548
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages454 pages
- Size 245x189x24 mm
- Weight 837 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 halftones, 3 figures 0
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Short description:
This Reader is an exciting panorama of over forty examples of the best writing in American Cultural Studies. It introduces vital concepts, arguments, theories, and disciplinary debates. Ranging from Black Power to social science, cyberdemocracy to transvestism, the Reader captures the ideas, critique and intellectual currents that stream through American public life.
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American Cultural Studies: A Reader shows how the burgeoning field of Cultural Studies has been taken up and developed in the United States. The book is a panorama of great writing and powerful ideas illustrating a particularly American response to questions of power and identity in the politics of culture.
More than forty selections from key figures in the 'New Journalism', cultural theory, the social sciences, humanities, and visual arts are gathered together in seven sections, each one introduced by helpful contextualising notes. The book also includes illustrations that serve to extend the themes of each section in visual terms.
An introductory chapter explains the editorial selection and offers a new account of Cultural Studies and American Studies in relation to American culture. The Epilogue then goes on to suggest new ways of doing Cultural Studies, and of thinking about America in particular, via the Internet.
good range of historical perspectives and theorectical approaches which are relevant and flexible enough to be used in conjunction with other course materials.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Cultural Exceptionalism: Freedom, Imperialism, Power, America
Part I
Section 1: The New Journalism and its Legacy
Introduction
Tom Wolfe: What if he is right?
Susan Sontag: What's happening to America?
Stokeley Carmichael: Black is Good
Vine Deloria: Indians Today, the Real and the Unreal
Marge Piercy: Through the Cracks
Hunter S. Thompson: Songs of the Doomed
Section 2: European Cultural Theory and its Legacy
Introduction
Betty Friedan: The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud
Marshall McLuhan: Extracts from The Gutenberg Galaxy
Marshall Sahlins: Notes on the American Clothing System
Umberto Eco: Preface to the American Edition & Travels in Hyperreality
Lawrence Grossberg: Cultural Studies and/in New Worlds
Section 3: American Social Science and its Legacy
Introduction
Elihu Katz: The Return of the Humanities and Sociology
James W. Carey: Mass Communication and Cultural Studies
George Gerbner: Mass Media Discourse
Michael Schudson: The Politics of Narrative Form
Horace Newcomb: Television as a Cultural Form
Section 4: History and Literature and their Legacy
Introduction
Ward Churchill: Literature as a Weapon in the Colonisation of the American Indian
Houston A. Baker: Handling Crisis
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg: Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender
Rita Felski: The Doxa of Difference
Janice Radway: What's in a Name?
Part II
Section 5: Identities
Introduction
Cindy Patton: Tremble, Hetero Swine!
Herman Gray: African-American Political Desire and the Seductions of Contemporary Cultural Politics
James Houston & Arjun Appadurai: Cities and Citizenship
Jean Franco: Plotting Women. Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and Latin America
Marjorie Garber: The Transvestite Continuum
Section 6: Practices
Introduction
Andrew Ross: The Great Un-American Numbers Game
George Lipsitz: Land of a Thousand Dances: Youth, Minorities, and the Rise of Rock and Roll
Susan Willis: Work(ing) Out
Paula A. Treichler: Aids, Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse
Toby Miller: Extract from Technologies of Truth
Section 7: Media
Introduction
John Fiske: Popularity and the Politics of Information
Lynn Spigel: From Theatre to Space Ship. Methaphors of Suburban Domesticity in Postwar America
Robert Stam: Eurocentrism, Polycentrism, and Multicultural Pedagogy: Film and the Quincentennial
Henry Jenkins: Out of the Closet and into the Universe. Queers and Star Trek
Mark Poster: Cyberdemocracy. Internet and the Public Sphere
Manuel Castells: Conclusion: The Network Society
Epilogue: The Future is Present: American Cultural Studies on the Net (Eva Vieth)
