American Cultural Studies
A Reader
Edited by John Hartley and Roberta E. Pearson
With Eva Vieth
Table of 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
