Anglo-American Cultural Studies

The third edition of Skinner's introduction to Anglo-American cultural studies has been thoroughly revised to include Brexit, Trump, the pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. This standard textbook now includes new full-color graphics as well as updated recommendations for further reading and watching at the end of each chapter. Anglo-American Cultural Studies refreshingly breaks with the tradition of dry impersonal summaries of facts and figures to provide German students with first-hand experience of the personal tone and humor that can characterize academic discourse in Britain and the US.

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

Klappentext
Dieser Band kombiniert eine Einführung in die traditionellen Kategorien der Landeskunde mit einer Darstellung wichtiger Schlüsselthemen der modernen Kulturwissenschaften. In englischer Sprache verfasst und auf die Gegebenheiten an Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum zugeschnitten, wurde er für die dritte Auflage vollständig überarbeitet und auf den neuesten Stand der Ereignisse gebracht.

Inhalt
Introduction 1 I: Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies 5 1 The Where (geography) 6 2 The When (history) 37 3 ABCs UK & US Life (special issues) 92 4 Uniform-ity and Plural-ity (education) 114 5 Queendom and Republicracy (political life) 135 6 A Common Wealth? (economics, international relations) 162 7 Who, Where From, Where To (minorities and immigration) 187 8 Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals in the City on the Hill (religion) 222 9 From Disasters to Parks (the environment) 251 10 Paper, Waves, Bytes (media) 269 11 Bread & Circuses (arts, leisure, sports, food) 290 II: Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies 319 12 Identity: Who's the Us, Who's the Them? 321 13 Power: Those Who Got It and Those That Ain't 339 14 Gender: Wo-Men 357 15 Media Was, Is, and Always Will Be the Message? 375 16 culture and Culture 393 Conclusion 417 List of Illustrations 422