Locating American Studies

Author : Lucy Maddox
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0801860563

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Locating American Studies by Lucy Maddox Pdf

This collection of 17 esays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary in 1998, the editor has brought together works by a group of scholars which she believes provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Each essay, originally published between 1950 and 1996 is accompanied by a commentary in which a scholar from a related field provides critical information for understanding the continuing importance of the work to the American Studies field. Contributors include: Gene Wise; Henry Nash Smith; Barbara Welter; Alexander Saxton; and Kevin Mumford.

Author : Janice A. Radway,Kevin Gaines,Barry Shank,Penny Von Eschen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405113519

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American Studies by Janice A. Radway,Kevin Gaines,Barry Shank,Penny Von Eschen Pdf

American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully selected key essays by an editorial board of expert scholars, the book demonstrates how changes in the field have produced new genealogies that tell different histories of both America and the study of America. Charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day by showcasing the best scholarship in this field An introductory essay by the distinguished editorial board highlights developments in the field and places each essay in its historical and theoretical context Explores topics such as American politics, history, culture, race, gender and working life Shows how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts to emerge in a different context

Author : Howard Temperley,Christopher Bigsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317867388

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A New Introduction to American Studies by Howard Temperley,Christopher Bigsby Pdf

A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American History and American Literature.

Author : Philip J. Deloria,Alexander I. Olson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520296794

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American Studies by Philip J. Deloria,Alexander I. Olson Pdf

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. Despite being taught in universities around the world, American Studies has resisted developing a coherent methodology for fear of losing the flexibility and freedom to imagine new avenues of thought. But what if these fears are misplaced? Through a fresh look at the origins of the field, this book contends that a shared set of “rules” can offer a springboard to creativity. American Studies: A User’s Guide offers readers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field, useful strategies for interpretation, curation, analysis, and theory, and case studies of American Studies in practice.

Author : Cynthia Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351559805

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Locating American Art by Cynthia Fowler Pdf

How does museum location shape the interpretation of an art object by critics, curators, art historians, and others? To what extent is the value of a work of art determined by its location? Providing a close examination of individual works of American art in relation to gallery and museum location, this anthology presents case studies of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and other media that explore these questions about the relationship between location and the prescribed meaning of art. It takes an alternate perspective in that it provides in-depth analysis of works of art that are less well known than the usual American art suspects, and in locations outside of art museums in major urban cultural centers. By doing so, the contributors to this volume reveal that such a shift in focus yields an expanded and more complex understanding of American art. Close examinations are given to works located in small and mid-sized art museums throughout the United States, museums that generally do not benefit from the resources afforded by more powerful cultural establishments such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Works of art located at institutions other than art museums are also examined. Although the book primarily focuses on paintings, other media created from the Colonial Period to the present are considered, including material culture and craft. The volume takes an inclusive approach to American art by featuring works created by a diverse group of artists from canonical to lesser-known ones, and provides new insights by highlighting the regional and the local.

Author : Bruce Burgett,Glenn Hendler
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814708019

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Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition by Bruce Burgett,Glenn Hendler Pdf

The latest vocabulary of key terms in American Studies Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded second edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond. It is equally useful for college students who are trying to understand what their teachers are talking about, for general readers who want to know what’s new in scholarly research, and for professors who just want to keep up. Designed as a print-digital hybrid publication, Keywords collects more than 90 essays30 of which are new to this edition—from interdisciplinary scholars, each on a single term such as “America,” “culture,” “law,” and “religion.” Alongside “community,” “prison,” "queer," “region,” and many others, these words are the nodal points in many of today’s most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. The Keywords website, which features 33 essays, provides pedagogical tools that engage the entirety of the book, both in print and online. The publication brings together essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. Some entries are explicitly argumentative; others are more descriptive. All are clear, challenging, and critically engaged. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry.

Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374706012

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American Studies by Louis Menand Pdf

At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William Shawn's New Yorker and William Paley's CBS. He uncovers the connection between Larry Flynt's Hustler and Jerry Falwell's evangelism, between the atom bomb and the Scholastic Aptitude Test. He locates the importance of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Pauline Kael, Christopher Lasch, and Rolling Stone magazine. And he lends an ear to Al Gore in the White House as the Starr Report is finally presented to the public. Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, The Metaphysical Club, American Studies is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of ideas and about the reasons successful ideas insinuate themselves into the culture at large. From one of our leading thinkers and critics, known both for his "sly wit and reportorial high-jinks [and] clarity and rigor" (The Nation), these essays are incisive, surprising, and impossible to put down.

Author : Neil C. Campbell,Alasdair Kean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134796922

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American Cultural Studies by Neil C. Campbell,Alasdair Kean Pdf

Drawing on literature, art, film theatre, music and much more, American Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary introduction to American culture for those taking American Studies. This textbook: * introduces the full range and variety of American culture including issues of race, gender and youth * provides a truly interdisciplinary methodology * suggests and discusses a variety of approaches to study * highlights American distinctiveness * draws on literature, art, film, theatre, architecture, music and more * challenges orthodox paradigms of American Studies. This is a fast-expanding subject area, and Campbell and Kean's book will certainly be a staple part of any cultural studies student's reading diet.

Author : Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015054426898

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Perspectives on American Book History by Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves Pdf

CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.

Author : Robyn Wiegman,Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780822384199

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The Futures of American Studies by Robyn Wiegman,Donald E. Pease Pdf

Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. The Futures of American Studies considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist—and antinationalist—discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars. Contributors. Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Günter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, José Estaban Muñoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos

Author : Andrew Dix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317537830

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American Studies: The Basics by Andrew Dix Pdf

American Studies: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction that aims to unpack what American studies does and why it matters. From Moby-Dick to baseball, Hollywood westerns to #BlackLivesMatter, and Disneyland to the U.S. Supreme Court, American studies engages with a myriad of topics in its efforts to understand what the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard called ‘social and cultural America.’ The book begins by considering how America was studied before American studies’ emergence as a recognized discipline in the mid-twentieth century. Successive chapters then explore the rise of American studies, its varied subjects, its distinctive methods of research, its geographical framing, and its politics. Throughout the book, explanatory examples are drawn from across American history and culture. Photographs are examined alongside novels, and historical monuments discussed next to films. The text offers an ideal way into an exciting academic subject of continuing growth and relevance. This book is a must read for those studying and with an interest in American studies.

Author : Philip J. Deloria,Alexander I. Olson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520287730

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American Studies by Philip J. Deloria,Alexander I. Olson Pdf

Introduction : the object of American studies -- Why History? -- Four American studies mixtapes -- An institutional history of American studies (or, what's the matter with mixtapes?) -- Method and methodology -- Texts : an interpretive toolkit -- Archives : a curatorial toolkit -- Genres and formations : an analytical toolkit -- Power : a theoretical toolkit -- A few thoughts on ideas and arguments -- Dispenser : a case study

Author : Matthias Oppermann
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783593393179

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American Studies in Dialogue by Matthias Oppermann Pdf

American studies has changed drastically over the past few decades, as a new wave of scholars--armed with groundbreaking ideas and more extensive methods of research--flocked to the relatively young field. This focus on scholarship, though necessary to the advancement of the discipline, has left pedagogy largely ignored. In American Studies in Dialogue, Matthias Oppermann consciously resists the traditional academic split between scholarship and classroom practice. His study calls for a radical reconstruction of American studies grounded in an understanding of cultural analysis and critique as genuinely dialogic processes of research and pedagogy. Drawing on case studies ranging from courses in early American civilization to recent multimedia projects, American Studies in Dialogue will be required reading for American studies scholars and teachers.

Author : Richard P. Horwitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0842028293

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The American Studies Anthology by Richard P. Horwitz Pdf

A rich and rewarding subject of popular imagination, the United States is compellingly portrayed in this first anthology designed specifically for American studies courses. Offering an indispensable introduction to the long and varied history of generalizing about America, leading scholar Richard Horwitz has compiled the definitive anthology for American studies and American culture courses. Brimming with imaginative selections, the reader contains essays, plays, songs, comedy, legal documents, speeches, and poems by a rich array of authors-both domestic and international-whose writings echo recurring American themes. Collectively, the anthology identifies the ways in which scholars and popularizers have attempted to characterize America. Horwitz's insightful introduction summarizes key themes in the study of American culture as he traces the history of the field as well as current controversies. He avoids heavy jargon yet presents a nuanced view of the foundational works in American studies. Preceding the readings with concise, informative introductions, Horwitz seamlessly guides the reader through this distinctive collection.

Author : Beatriz Cortez,Douglas Carranza
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1465251057

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Introduction to Central American Studies by Beatriz Cortez,Douglas Carranza Pdf