Introduction: "Cultural Exceptionalism:" Freedom, Imperialism, Power, America
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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
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