Anglo-American Cultural Studies

Jody Skinner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2016 | 2. überarb. Aufl.
UTB (Verlag)
978-3-8252-4590-0 (ISBN)

Infos

At last students and teachers of English at German universities have a book written specifically for British and American Landeskunde and Cultural Studies courses, which can serve as a useful resource for students in general as well as for examination preparation within BA and MA degree programs. Anglo-American Cultural Studies gives an outline of American and British geography and history in question-and-answer format in addition to covering traditional life-and-institutions topics like education, media, minorities and immigration, political life, and religion and including special topics from A for abortion to W for women's rights and controversial subjects like capital punishment and gun control.Anglo-American Cultural Studies also deals with aspects not covered in previous books written in English for German students, providing comparisons with and contrasts to older disciplines like anthropology and sociology as well as a look at the newer ones like area, gender, and media studies. The facts given in Part I Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies are supplemented and looked at from a different perspective in Part II Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies, which summarizes the concepts of identity, power, class, gender, new media, and the multifarious meanings of the concept of culture.Anglo-American Cultural Studies - now available in a second edition and divided into clearly structured chapters with varied exercises, photos, and illustrations - refreshingly breaks with the tradition of providing dry impersonal summaries of facts and figures and gives German students first-hand experience of the personal tone and humor that can characterize academic discourse in Britain and the US.

Autor

Dr. Jody Skinner lehrt angloamerikanische Landes- und Kulturwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik der Universität Koblenz-Landau.

Inhalt

Introduction1
I: Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies5
1 The Where (geography)6
2 The When (history)35
3 The ABCs of British and American Life (special issues)78
4 Uniform-ity and Plural-ity (education)94
5 Queendom and Republicracy (political life)114
6 The Pound Stops Here for a Commonwealth for All? (economics and international relations)136
7 Who, Where From, and Where To (minorities and immigration)157
8 Weddings, Baptisms, and Funerals in The City on the Hill (religion)184
9 From National Parks to Natural Disasters (environmental concerns)211
10 Paper, Waves, and Bytes (media)228
11 Bread and Circuses (the arts, leisure time activities and sports, food)244
II: Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies269
12 Identity: Who’s the Us, Who’s the Them?271
13 Power: Those Who Got It and Those That Ain’t285
14 Gender: Wo-Men299
15 New Media Was, Is, and Always Will Be the Message?313
16 Culture with a Big “C” and with a Little “c” in Anglo-American Cultural Studies326
VI I: Topics in Anglo-American C ontents Area Studies Conclusion349
Recommendations for Further Reading (a partly annotated bibliography)354
Index362
List of Illustrations376

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2016
• Reihe/Serie: utb basics
• Verlagsort: Stuttgart
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 215 mm
• Gewicht: 524 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Amerikanistikstudium • Anglistikstudium • Anglistikstudium / Englischstudium • Anglo-American • Anglo-American, Anglo-American Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Kulturwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Landeskunde, Moderne • Anglo-American Cultural Studies • Cultural Studies • Großbritannien; Landeskunde • Kulturwissenschaft • Kulturwissenschaften • Kulturwissenschaftsstudium • Landeskunde • Moderne • USA; Landeskunde
• ISBN-10: 3-8252-4590-X / 382524590X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8252-4590-0 / 9783825245900
• Zustand: Neuware