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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.
List of contents
Introduction1I: Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies51 The Where (geography)62 The When (history)373 ABCs UK & US Life (special issues)924 Uniform-ity and Plural-ity (education)1145 Queendom and Republicracy (political life) 1356 A Common Wealth? (economics, international relations)1627 Who, Where From, Where To (minorities and immigration)1878 Weddings, Baptisms, Funerals in the City on the Hill (religion)2229 From Disasters to Parks (the environment)25110 Paper, Waves, Bytes (media)26911 Bread & Circuses (arts, leisure, sports, food)290II: Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies31912 Identity: Who's the Us, Who's the Them?32113 Power: Those Who Got It and Those That Ain't33914 Gender: Wo-Men35715 Media Was, Is, and Always Will Be the Message?37516 culture and Culture393Conclusion417List of Illustrations422
About the author
Dr. Jody Skinner lehrt angloamerikanische Landes- und Kulturwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik der Universität Koblenz.
Summary
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.
