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American Studies: The Basics Dix Andrew American Studies: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction that aims to unpack what American studies does and why it matters.From Moby-Dick to…
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American Studies: The Basics Dix Andrew
American Studies: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction that aims to unpack what American studies does and why it matters.From Moby-Dick to baseball, Hollywood westerns to #BlackLivesMatter, and Disneyland to the U.S. Successive chapters then explore the rise of American studies, its varied subjects, its distinctive methods of research, its geographical framing, and its politics. Supreme Court, American studies engages with a myriad of topics in its efforts to understand what the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard called 'social and cultural America.' The book begins by considering how America was studied before American studies' emergence as a recognized discipline in the mid-twentieth century.
Photographs are examined alongside novels, and historical Throughout the book, explanatory examples are drawn from across American history and culture.