American Cultural Studies: A Reader

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-874254-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 815 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hartley, John

Pearson, Roberta E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vieth, Eva

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 and 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 and 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)

Über Autor(innen)

John Hartley is Dean of Arts at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He was formerly head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research at the University of Cardiff. He is the author of numerous books on cultural and media studies, including Uses of Television (Routledge, 1999) and Popular Reality (Arnold, 1996).

Roberta E. Pearson is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Prior to this she was Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.