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Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Henry Ford and Grass-roots America

By Reynold M. Wik
Subjects: History, American History, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring

By Sherry Lee Linkon
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

Immersions in Cultural Difference

Tourism, War, Performance

By Natalie Alvarez
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How immersive simulations—from a fictional border-crossing site to a mock terrorist training camp—attempt to foster understanding across cultures

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

Body Parts of Empire

Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive

By Nerissa Balce
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, American Studies

A cross-disciplinary reading of American popular culture at a time of U.S. imperialism and the occupation of the Philippine Islands.

Good Vibrations

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective

By Philip Lambert
Subjects: American Studies, Music, Cultural Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

An international, interdisciplinary exploration of the band that helped define 1960s America

The Resonance of Unseen Things

Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

By Susan Lepselter
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Studies

An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

Subversions of the American Century

Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies

A revolutionary study of Spanish-language Filipino literature as the first creative reaction to American imperialism

Reading for the Planet

Toward a Geomethodology

By Christian Moraru
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, American Studies

A critical methodology for dealing with planetarism’s aesthetic and philosophical projections

American Lobotomy

A Rhetorical History

By Jenell Johnson
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.

From Property to Family

American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion

By Andrei S. Markovits & Katherine Crosby
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology

A detailed look into the cultural history and cultural impact of dog rescue in the United States

Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands

Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines

By Mark Rice
Subjects: Art, Photography, Cultural Studies, American Studies

A biography of the man whose photographic activities had a profound influence on the way that Americans perceived the Philippines throughout the twentieth century

Rhymin' and Stealin'

Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop

By Justin A Williams
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies, Music
Series: Tracking Pop

The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing

The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader

Edited by Susan Vaneta Mason
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies

Celebrates the San Francisco Mime Troupe with scripts representative of the troupe's work

Cultural Struggles

Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

By Dwight Conquergood
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies

Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist

Sensational Devotion

Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America

By Jill C. Stevenson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Religion, American Studies, Cultural Studies

How evangelical theme parks, museums, and other performance sites both reflect and create religious belief

Between the Middle East and the Americas

The Cultural Politics of Diaspora

Edited by Ella Habiba Shohat & Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany
Subjects: American Studies, Latin American Studies, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies

Perceptions of the Middle East in conflicting discourses from North America, South America, and Europe

Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment

By Lily E. Hirsch
Subjects: Music, Law, Law and Society, American Studies, Cultural Studies

A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: American Studies, Art, Architecture, Class Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

By Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

Acts of Gaiety

LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

By Sara Warner
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

American Newspaper Comics

An Encyclopedic Reference Guide

By Allan Holtz
Subjects: Reference, American Studies, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies

The most comprehensive guide to U.S. newspaper comics ever published

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