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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
