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American Cultural Studies
A Reader

Edited by John Hartley and Roberta E. Pearson

With Eva Vieth

Price: £32.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-874254-8
Publication date: 29 June 2000
456 pages, 10 illus., 246x189 mm

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  • 'good range of historical perspectives and theorectical approaches which are relevant and flexible enough to be used in conjunction with other course materials.' - Dr Jessica Maynard, Lecturer, King's College London
  • '`An outstanding collection; both original and definitive. It will clearly provoke strong interest and heated debate in this country, and will be a collection most of us will want to own. It makes a serious contribution to the existing literature.' Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology' -
  • '`This collection looks like a winner. I know of no other competing work that combines a broad understanding of cultural studies with particular attention to the study of the United States. The editors have conceived the volume in the most compelling way.' Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine' -

Description
  • The first cultural studies Reader to focus exclusively on America
  • A collection in one volume of some of the best essays written on American Cultural Studies in the last four decades
  • Is unique in looking at the differences between 'American Studies' and 'Cultural Studies' as disciplines
  • Includes extensive new editorial material by the volume editors
  • The editors are well-known authors in their own right in the fields of cultural, media, and film studies
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.

Contents
Introduction: "Cultural Exceptionalism:" Freedom, Imperialism, Power, America , John Hartley
Part I: The Intellectual Context
Section 1: The New Journalism and Its Legacy
Introduction
1. Tom Wolfe: What If He Is Right?
2. Susan Sontag: What's Happening to America?
3. Stokely Carmichael: Black is Good
4. Vine Deloria, Jr.: Indians Today, the Real and the Unreal
5. Marge Piercy: Through the Cracks
6. Hunter S. Thompson: Revisited: The Puerto Rican Problem
Section 2: European Cultural Theory and Its Legacy
Introduction
7. Betty Friedan: The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud
8. Marshall McLuhan: The Gutenberg Galaxy
9. Marshall Sahlins: Notes on the American Clothing System
10. Umberto Eco: Travels in Hyperreality
11. Lawrence Grossberg: Identity and Cultural Studies: Is That All There Is?
Section 3: American Social Science and Its Legacy
Introduction
12. Elihu Katz: The Return of the Humanities and Sociology
13. James W. Carey: Mass Communication and Cultural Studies
14. George Gerbner: Mass Media Discourse: Message System Analysis as a Component of Cultural Indicators
15. Michael Schudson: The Politics of Narrative Form: The Emergence of News Conventions in Print and Television
16. Horace Newcomb and Paul M. Hirsch: Television as a Cultural Forum
Section 4: History and Literature and Their Legacy
Introduction
17. Ward Churchill: Literature as a Weapon in the Colonization of the American Indian
18. Houston A. Baker, Jr.: Handling "Crisis:" Great Books, Rap Music, and the End of Western Homogeneity (Reflections on the Humanities in America)
19. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg: Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender
20. Rita Felski: The Doxa of Difference
21. Janice Radway: What's in a Name? Presidential Address to the American Studies Association
Part II: Cultural Sites
Section 5: Identities
Introduction
22. Cindy Patton: Tremble, Hetero Swine!
23. Herman Gray: African-American Political Desire and the Seductions of Contemporary Cultural Politics
24. James Houston and Arjun Appadurai: Cities and Citizenship
25. Jean Franco: Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America
26. Marjorie Garber: The Transvestite Continuum: Liberace-Valentino-Elvis
Section 6: Practices
Introduction
27. Andrew Ross: The Great Un-American Numbers Game
28. George Lipsitz: Land of a Thousand Dances: Youth, Minorities, and the Rise of Rock and Roll
29. Susan Willis: Work(ing) Out
30. Paula A. Treichler: AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification
31. Toby Miller: The Truth Is a Murky Path
Section 7: Media
Introduction
32. John Fiske: Popularity and the Politics of Information
33. Lynn Spigel: From Theatre to Space Ship: Metaphors of Suburban Domesticity in Postwar America
34. Robert Stam: Eurocentrism, Polycentrism, and Multicultural Pedagogy: Film and the Quincentennial
35. Henry Jenkins: "Out of the Closet and into the Universe:" Queers and Star Trek
36. Mark Poster: CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere
37. Manuel Castells: Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society
Eva Vieth: Epilogue: The Future is Present: American Cultural Studies on the Net

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by John Hartley, Dean of Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane and
Roberta E. Pearson, Senior Lecturer, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
With Eva Vieth, Hopkinson Scholar at the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research, Cardiff University


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Cultural studies
American studies

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