ENAM 483:
Introduction to American Studies

• Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree.
• Neil Howe and Bill Strauss, 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Fail?
• Greill Marcus, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'roll.
• Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
• Neil Postman, Technopoly.
• Wendy Griswold, Cultures and Societies in a Changing World.
• Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.

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• Williams, Keywords
• Capitalism, Community, Culture, Democracy, Equality, Ethnic, Family, History, Ideology, Nature, Race, Representative, Society.

• Hans Holbein the Younger, Map of the World (1515)
• William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation
• Captain John Smith, from The History of Virginia.
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Maypole of Merrymountand Roger Malvin's Burial 
• Cotton Mather, Book I and Nehemius Americana from Magnalia Christi Americana.
• Ben Franklin, from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,pp.5-29, 81-92 and Poor Richard Improved, 1758pp. 1295-1304.
• Thomas Jefferson, Draft of The Declaration of Independence.andQuery 4 andQuery 19, from Notes on the State of Virginia.
• James Madison, The Federalist #10 and #51

• Sacvan Bercovitch, The Puritan Origins of the American Self.
• Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
• Michael Kammen, People of Paradox.
• Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness.

• Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted.
• David Potter, People of Plenty.

• George Washington, Farewell Address.
• Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur,Letter III: What is an American?, and Letter IX: Description of Charlestownfrom Letters from an American Farmer.
• Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. 
• Alexis deTocqueville,
  Volume I:
  Origin of the Anglo-Americans, and the Importance of this Origin in Relation to their Future Condition, Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans, The Necessity of Examining the Condition of the States Before that of the Union at Large, How it can be Strictly Said That the People Govern in The United States, What are the Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government?, Unlimited Power of the Majority in The United States, and its Consequences, The Present and Probably Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of The United States.
  Volume II,
  Part I, The Influence of Democracy on the Action of Intellect in The United States: Philosophical Method of The Americans, Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratic Nations, Why the Americans Show More General Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas that their Forefathers, The English, Why the Americans have never been so Eager as the French for General Ideas in Political Affairs, How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man, In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts, Literary Characteristics of Democratic Times, How American Democracy has Modified the English Language.
  Part II:
  The Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of Americans: Of Individualism in Democratic Countries, Of the Uses which the Americans Make of Public Associations, That the Americans Apply the Principle of Self-interest Rightly Understood to Religions Matters, How Excessive Care for Worldly Welfare may Impair that Welfare, What Causes Almost All Americans to Follow an Industrial Calling, How an Aristocracy may be Created by Manufacures, How Democracy Renders the Social Intercourse of the Americans Free and Easy, How Democracy Affects the Relations of Masters and Servants, Influence of Democracy on the Family, Education of Young Women in The United States, How the Aspect of Society in The United States is at once Excited and Monotonous. from
  Democracy in America
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar.
• Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address.
• Walt Whitman, selections from Democratic Vistas.
• Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History.
• Andrew Carnegie, from The Gospel of Wealth 
• Thorstein Veblen, Industrial Exemption and Conservatism,from The Theory of the Leisure Class
• Henry Adams,Chicagoand The Dynamo and the Virgin,from The Education of Henry Adams.

• Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience.
• Michael Kammen, The Machine that Would Run by Itself: The Constitution in American Culture.
• Miles Orvell, The Real Thing.
• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Myth and Symbol.
• Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.

• George Santayana, Materialism and Idealism in American Life,from Character and Opinion in the United States.
• Constance Rourke, Corn Cobs Twist Your Hairand The Gamecock in the Wildernessfrom Native American Humor.
• John Crowe Ransome, A Statement of Principlesfrom I'll Take My Stand
• Reinhold Neibuhr, Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?fromIrony in American History.
• Henry Nash Smith, The Agricultural West in Literaturefrom Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth.
• Leo Marx,Sleepy Hollow, 1844 from The Machine in the Garden.
• Henry Nash Smith, Can American Studies Develop a Method.
• Leo Marx, American Studies: A Defense of an Unscientific Method.

• Generational Conflict:
• Gene Wise, "Paradign Dramas" in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement
• Frederick Lewis Dekker, Disassembling the Machine in the Garden.
• Bruce Kuklich, Myth and Symbol in American Studies
• R. Gordon Kelly, The Social Construction of Reality: Implications for the Future Direction of American Studies
• Nina Baym, Melodramas of Beset Manhood
• Phillip Fisher, The New American Studies.
• Peter Burke, The New History: Its Past and Future
• Searching for a New Synthesis:
• Laurence Buell, Are We Post American Studies?
• Jay Mechling, An American Culture Grid, With Texts.
• Clifford Geertz, Thick Description.
• Roland Barthes, Wrestling
• Jane Caputi, IBM's Charlie Chaplin: A Case Study
• Robert Darnton, Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin. 
• McCrea Adams, Advertising Characters: The Pantheon of Consumerism
• Gary Engle, What Makes Superman So Darned American?
• bell hooks, Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?
• Roland Marchand, Visions of Classlessness, Quests for Dominion: American Popular Culture, 1945-1960.
• Michael Parenti, Class and Virtue.
• Andrew Wernick, Vehicles for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car.

• Gender Bibliographies
• John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture.
• Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism or the Logic of Late Industrial Capitalism.
• Kenneth Lynn, The Regressive Historiansfrom The Airline to Seattle
• Russel Reising, The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature.
• Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860.
• Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950.
• Gene Wise, Paradigm Dramas in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement.

• Edward Ayers,
• The Valley of the Shadow
• Introduction from All Over the Map.
• Edward Ayers, What Do We Talk About When We Talk About the South?from All Over the Map.
• William Faulkner, Was from Go Down Moses
• Ernest Hemingway, Big Two-Hearted River
• Angelene Price, White Trash: The Construction of an American ScapegoatMA97. 
• Grace Hale, from Producing the Ground of Difference
• John Shelton Reed, The South:Where is it? What is it? from My Tears Spoiled my Aim. 

• Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South.
• Edward Ayers, The Oxford Book of the American South. 
• Edward Ayers, The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
• W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South.
• Jay Mechling,If They Can Build a Square Tomato: Notes Toward a Holistic Approach to Regional Studies,Prospects, Vol. 4, 1979.
• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth.
• John Shelton Reid, My Tears Spoiled My Aim.
• Austin Warren, The New England Conscience.
• Eudora Welty,Place in Fictionfrom The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews.
• The American Memory Project from The Library of Congress.
• The Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• Elizabeth Semancik, Albion's Seed Grows in the Cumberland GapUG97. 
• Mark Twain, Jim Blaine's Grandfather's Old Ramfrom Cohen and Dillingham, eds., Humor of the Old Southwest

FALL BREAK: 10/21-10/24

• Peter Burke, The New History, its Past and Future,pp. 1-23, from New Perspectives on Historical Writing.
• Umberto Eco,Travels in Hyperrealityfrom Travels in Hyperreality
• Levine, Lawrence W., William Shakespeare in Americafrom Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. 

• David Lowenthal, Ch. 6, Changing the Past,(pp. 263-363) from The Past is a Foreign Country. 
• John Bodnar, Remaking America : Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.
• The Capital Project 
• Arlington National Cemetary 
• The Columbus Doors: Mythmaking in the U.S. Capitol 
• Pocahontas: Icon at the Crossroads of Race and Sex 
• Lady Liberty:The Changing Face of Freedom 
• Nature in the United States Capitol 
• The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 
• Erastus Salisbury Field: A Yankee Seer 
• Buffalo Bill 
• John Barans, Negotiating American Identity in the National Portrait Gallery
• Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember.
• James Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American Life.
• Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Memory in American Culture.
• Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display.
• Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Levine. eds.,Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.
• Phyllis Leffler and Joseph Brent, Public and Academic History : A Philosophy and Paradigm.(C)
• Phyllis Leffler, Public History Readings. (C)
• Gregg Mitman, Cinematic Nature:Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the American Museum of Natural History 
• The Popular Memory Group, Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method.
• David Middleton and Derek Edwards, ed., Collective Remembering
• The Smithsonian Institution.

• William B. Rhoads, The Colonial Revival and American Nationalism
• Richard Guy Wilson, et al,The Making of Virginia Architecture, Ch. 3.
• Richard Murray, Dianne H. Pilgrim, and Richard Guy Wilson, "The American Renaissance," Ch. 1 and Ch. 3 (NA)

• Herman Melville, Chapters 42 and 58 from Moby-Dick
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Chapters 4, 13 and 26 from Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mark Twain, Chapters 15 and 38 from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Chapter ix: The Western Hero in the Dime Novel and Chapter x: The Dime Novel Heroine,from Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land.

• Rosemary Jann, Sherlock Holmes Codes the Social Body
• Earle Labor, Jack London's Symbolic Wilderness: Four Versions
• Christopher Looby, George Thompson's "Romance of the Real:" Transgression and Taboo in American Sensation Fiction
• Janice Radway, The Ideal Romance from Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Pt. I and Pt. II
• Wendy W. Walters, Limited Options: Strategic Maneuverings in Himes's Harlem
• Little Women.
• Dime NOvels and Penny Dreadfuls
• Dime Novels from LOC
• James D. Hart, The Popular Book.
• John G. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance : Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture.
• Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America.
• Glenwood Irons, ed., Gender, Language, and Myth : Essays on Popular Narrative.
• Hans Robert Jauss,Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory,from Toward an Aesthetics of Reception.
• Mark McWilliams, With Lee in Virginia.
• Frank Luther Mott, Golden Multitudes.
• Russel B. Nye, The Unembarrased Muse
• Stephen Railton, Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance.
• John Luther Long, Madam Butterfly.
• Jane Tompkins,Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawhtorne's Literary Reputation,andBut is it any Good? : The Institutionalization of Literary Valuefrom Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860.
• Popular Culture Page at Bowling Green State University.

• Blade Runner(C)

NOTE: "Blade Runner" is on reserve in Clemons and I have also reserved a video room for 7:00 Sunday evening, November 12, room 313. Professor Korte asks that you View 1) the Vidorecording of the director's cut (VIDEO.LD1164 Pt. 1-2 as well as the ending of the original release. Time for a video party? Popcorn is allowed.( VIDEO .LD1164) 

• Joseph Fancavilla, The Android as Doppelganger, in Judith B. Kerman, ed, Retrofitting Blade Runner(C) 
• Judith B. Kerman,Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia in Retrofitting...(C) 
• William Fisher, Of Living Machines and Living-Machines: Blade Runner and the Terminal Genre 

• Andrew Bergman, The Gangster, The G-Man and the Cowboy and The Juvenile Delinquent from We're in the Money: Depression America and its Films.
• Time Machine: 70 years of Science Fiction
• In Focus, The Western
• In Focus, Cliffhangers: The Golden Age of Serials
• In Focus, Film Noir
• James Monaco, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia
• Paul N. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner. 
• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. 
• Pauline Kael,Baby, the Rain Must Fall,The New Yorker, july 12, 1982. 
• Paul Schrader,Notes on Film Noir,Film Comment, vol. 8, 1972. 

• Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
• Robin Wood, Ideology, Genre, Auteur.
• Umberto Eco, 'Casablanca:' Or The Cliches are Having a Ball.
• Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio.
• Andrew Bergman, We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films.
• Emanuel Levy, Small-town America in Film : The Decline and Fall of Community.
• Capra, Smith and Doe: Filming the American Hero 
• The West in Silent Films 
• Frank Diller, Mammy Dearest: The Depiction of African American House Servants.....
• Kathleen Hogan, Reaping the Golden Harvest: Pare Lorentz, Poet and Film Maker
• David Plowden, Small Town America.
• W.R.Robinson, ed., Man and the Movies.
• Steven Schoenherr, Multimedia and History.
• Paul Smith, The Historians and Film.
• Pointer to Resources in Film Studies.
• Guide to Film Studies.
• Film Database.

• Thomas J. Schlereth,Mirrors of the Past: Historical Photography and History, from Artifacts and the American Past.
• America and Lewis Hine -- video (C)
• Miles Orvell,A Hieroglyphic World: The Furnishing of Identity in Victorian Culture and Photography and the Artifice of Realism from The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940.

• Carl Fleischhauer, et al, eds., Documenting America 1935-1943.
• Ansel Adams, The American Wilderness,ed. by Andrea G. Stillman.
• AS@UVA 
• Documenting the 1930s
• Walker Evans et al 
• Photography andVirgin Land 
• David Sapir, Fixing Shadows: Still Photography 
• Richard Avedon, In the American West.
• Margaret Bourke White, The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White ed. by Sean Callahan.
• Walker Evans, American Photographs, ed. by Lincoln Kirstein.
• Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe.
• Susan Sonntag, On Photography.
• Maren Stange, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950.
• Alan Trachtenberg, Photography as History
• Photography Collection of the Farm Security Administration.
• WPA: American Slave Narratives 
• The Art of the American Daguerreotype.
• Unive rsity of Deleware Symposium on Photography and Society.

• Daniel Chandler,Semiotics for Beginners.
• Daniel Chandler, Cultivation Theory

• Robert Cantlwell, Feasts of Unnaming,in R. Baron and N.R.Spitzer, eds., Public Folklore.
• Stephen J. Fjellman, Conclusion:Theses on Disney from Vinyl Leaves
• Robert H. Lavenda, Festivals and the Creation of Public Culture: Whose Voice(s)? in Karp, Kreamer, and Lavine, eds. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.
• T. Jackson Lears, Packaging the Folk: Tradition and Amnesia in American Advertising, 1880-1940.

• Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum.
• T. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance : A Cultural History of Advertising in America.
• Charles Perdue, Weevils in the Wheat : Interviews with Virginia Ex-slaves.

Draft conference before 12/15

Final Projects due 12/18

SELF EVALUATION

Vacation Reading: Stephen J. Fjellman, Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America.

Vacation Projects:

• Create a "Web Resources for Studying American Popular Culture" that includes at least 10 significant resources.

• Prepare a brief critique of your final project from this course. You should include consideration of the following:
  • Organization and navigation;
  • the sense of audience;
  • clarity and coherence of the site's argument;
  • adequacy of materials to support that argument;
  • any additional materials or editorial changes that would make the site more effective.