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Product details
- ISBN 9780198742548
- Weight: 837g
- Dimensions: 189 x 245mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jun 2000
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
