Rosalind Williams, "The Dream World of Mass Consumption" (all readings from Rethinking Popular Culture)īurton Bledstein, The Culture of ProfessionalismĪndrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular CultureįEBRUARY 28: TAKING POPULAR CULTURES SERIOUSLY Lawrence Levine, "William Shakespeare and the American People" Paul DiMaggio, "Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America" Pierre Bourdieu, "Sport and Social Class" Richard Slotkin, "Buffalo Bills Wild West and the Mythologization of the American Empire"Īlan Trachtenberg, "Myth and Symbol" (1984) Patricia Nelson Limerick, Legacy of ConquestĪnnette Kolodny, "Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions" Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, Race and Blackface," Cambridge CompanionįEBRUARY 14: AMERICAN REGIONALISM: WESTERN HISTORIES, NEW AND OLD Myra Jehlen, "Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature," Cambridge CompanionĮric Lott, "Mr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, "Mark Twain and Women," Cambridge Companion Leslie Fiedler, "Come Back to the Raft Agin, Huck Honey" Jonathan Arac, Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target Warren Susman, "History and the American Intellectual: Uses of a Usable Past" (1964), Locating American StudiesįEBRUARY 7: LITERARY AMERICANISTS: THE CASE OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Henry Nash Smith, "Can √merican Studies Develop a Method?" (1957), Locating American Studies Gerald Graff, "The Promise of American Literature Studies"īruce Kulick, "Myth and Symbol in American Studies" (1972), LocatingAmerican Studies Michael Denning, "The Special American Conditions: Marxism and American Studies" (1986), Locating American Studies Robert Berkhoefer, Jr., "A New Context for a New American Studies?" (1989), Locating American Studies "The Radical Roots of American Studies": Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 9, 1995 "Insiders and Outsiders: The Borders of the USA and the Limits of the ASA": Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, 31 October 1996 "Disturbing the Peace: What Happens to American Studies If You Put African American Studies at the Center?": Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, October 29, 1997 Through close textual analysis of the Cursed Earth story, this article reveals how thematic elements of the road genre are linked to significant themes in American history and culture."What's in a Name?": Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, 20 November, 1998 Written by British writer Pat Mills, with contributions from John Wagner and Chris Lowder, The Cursed Earth features the character Judge Dredd, perhaps the most popular and most recognizable icon of British comics of the last thirty years. This is demonstrated in The Cursed Earth, an apocalyptic road story in twenty-five parts, which was published in the British weekly comic 2000AD from May to October 1978. These storytellers appear to have absorbed or internalized aspects of American national identity, and this is reflected in their work. However, when non-Americans create road stories they tend to employ symbols and narratives that are often considered intrinsically American.
This is reflected in the literature and cinema of the road genre, in influential novels such as Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, and in films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969).
Mobility is a significant feature of American history and culture.
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