Anglo-American Cultural Studies

At last students and teachers of English at German universities have a book written specifically for British and American Landeskunde and Cultural Studies courses, which can serve as a useful resource for students in general as well as for examination preparation within BA and MA degree programs. Anglo-American Cultural Studies gives an outline of American and British geography and history in question-and-answer format in addition to covering traditional life-and-institutions topics like education, media, minorities and immigration, political life, and religion and including special topics from A for abortion to W for women's rights and controversial subjects like capital punishment and gun control.Anglo-American Cultural Studies also deals with aspects not covered in previous books written in English for German students, providing comparisons with and contrasts to older disciplines like anthropology and sociology as well as a look at the newer ones like area, gender, and media studies. The facts given in Part I Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies are supplemented and looked at from a different perspective in Part II Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies, which summarizes the concepts of identity, power, class, gender, new media, and the multifarious meanings of the concept of culture.Anglo-American Cultural Studies - now available in a second edition and divided into clearly structured chapters with varied exercises, photos, and illustrations - refreshingly breaks with the tradition of providing dry impersonal summaries of facts and figures and gives German students first-hand experience of the personal tone and humor that can characterize academic discourse in Britain and the US.

Klappentext:

Anglo-American Cultural Studies kombiniert eine Einführung in die traditionellen Kategorien der Landeskunde mit einer Darstellung wichtiger Schlüsselthemen der modernen Kulturwissenschaften. Der Band ist in englischer Sprache verfasst und auf die Gegebenheiten an Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum zugeschnitten. Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band wieder auf den neuesten Stand der Forschung gebracht und enthält nun auch die vormals auf die Plattform utb-mehr-wissen.de ausgelagerten Kapitel 3 und 10.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Introduction1I: Topics in Anglo-American Area Studies51 The Where (geography)62 The When (history)353 The ABCs of British and American Life (special issues)784 Uniform-ity and Plural-ity (education)945 Queendom and Republicracy (political life)1146 The Pound Stops Here for a Commonwealth for All? (economics and international relations)1367 Who, Where From, and Where To (minorities and immigration)1578 Weddings, Baptisms, and Funerals in The City on the Hill (religion)1849 From National Parks to Natural Disasters (environmental concerns)21110 Paper, Waves, and Bytes (media)22811 Bread and Circuses (the arts, leisure time activities and sports, food)244II: Looking at Anglo-American Cultural Studies26912 Identity: Who's the Us, Who's the Them?27113 Power: Those Who Got It and Those That Ain't28514 Gender: Wo-Men29915 New Media Was, Is, and Always Will Be the Message?31316 Culture with a Big "C" and with a Little "c" in Anglo-American Cultural Studies326VI I: Topics in Anglo-American C ontents Area Studies Conclusion349Recommendations for Further Reading (a partly annotated bibliography)354Index362List of Illustrations376