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ENAM 483: Introduction to American Studies
Syllabus
v 1.2
last updated
Texts (available at University of Virginia Bookstore):
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Wendy Griswold, Cultures and Societies in a Changing World.
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Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
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Calendar of Meetings
9/03:Organization and Introduction
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Williams, Keywords
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Capitalism, Community, Culture, Democracy, Equality, Ethnic, Family,
History, Ideology, Nature, Race, Representative, Society.
9/08: Classic Paradigms I: Cultural Maps and Master Narratives
ASLAB #1
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Wendy Griswold, Culture and Society pp. xiii-43.
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Map
of the World (1515)
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William Bradford, from Of
Plymouth Plantation
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Captain John Smith,
from The History
of Virginia.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
Maypole of Merrymount and Roger
Malvin's Burial
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Cotton Mather, Book
I and Nehemius
Amercana from Magnalia Christi Americana.
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Thomas Paine, The
American Crisis
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Ben Franklin, from
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, pp.5-29, 81-92 and Poor
Richard Improved, 1758 pp. 1295-1304.
Recommended:
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Sacvan Bercovitch, The Puritan Origins of the American Self.
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Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience.
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Michael Kammen, People of Paradox.
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Exploring
the West from Monticello.
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Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness.
Suggested:
9/15: Classic Paradigms II: The Middle Ground: Early National Period to
WW I
ASLAB #2
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Wendy Griswold, Culture and Society pp. 44-92.
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Thomas Jefferson, Draft
of The Declaration of Independence. andQuery 4 pp. 142-149
and Query 19 pp. 290-291, from Notes
on the State of Virginia.
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James Madison,
The Federalist #10
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George Washington, Farewell
Address.
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Washington Irving, Rip
Van Winkle.
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Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur,Letter III: What is an American?,
from Letters from
an American Farmer.
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Alexis deTocqueville, 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: What
Causes Almost All Americans to Follow an Industrial Calling, How an Aristocracy
may be Created by Manufacures. from Democracy
in America
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The
American Scholar.
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Abraham Lincoln,
The Gettysburg Address.
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Walt Whitman, selections from Democratic
Vistas.
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Frederick Jackson Turner,
The Significance of the Frontier in American History.
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Andrew Carnegie, from The
Gospel of Wealth
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Thorstein Veblen, Industrial Exemption and Conservatism, from The
Theory of the Leisure Class
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Henry Adams, Chicago and The Dynamo and the Virgin,from The
Education of Henry Adams.
Recommended:
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Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience.
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Michael Kammen, The Machine that Would Run by Itself: The Constitution
in American Culture.
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Miles Orvell, The Real Thing.
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Henry Nash Smith, Virgin
Land: The American West as Myth and Symbol.
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Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.
9/22:Classic Paradigms III: The American Studies Movement
ASLAB #3
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Wendy Griswold, Culture and Society pp. 93-136.
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George Santayana, Materialism and Idealism in American Life, from
Character and
Opinion in the United States.
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William Carlos Williams, The
Voyage of the Mayflower, and The
Maypole of Merrymount, from In the American Grain.
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H.L.Mencken, The
Declaration of Independence
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Constance Rourke, Corn
Cobs Twist Your Hair and The
Gamecock in the Wilderness from Native American Humor.
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Vernon L. Parrington, Introduction,preface to Book I: Liberalism
and Puritanism, Chapter III:The Chief Stewards of Thocracy and
Chapter IV: The Contributions of Independency from Main Currents
in American Thought. Vol I(C)
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John Crowe Ransome,A
Statement of Principles from I'll Take My Stand
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Reinhold Neibuhr, Where
Have We Been? Where Are We Going? from Irony in American History.
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Henry Nash Smith, The Agricultural West in Literature from Virgin
Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth.
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Leo Marx, Sleepy Hollow, 1844 from The Machine in the Garden: (C)
9/29: From American Studies to American(?) Cultural(?) Studies(?)
ASLAB #4
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Generational Conflict:
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Searching for a New Synthesis:
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Roland Barthes,
Wrestling
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Clifford Geertz,
Thick Description.
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Jane Caputi,
IBM's Charlie Chaplin: A Case Study
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Robert Darnton, Workers
Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin.
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McCrea Adams, Advertising
Characters: The Pantheon of Consumerism
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Gary Engle,
What Makes Superman So Darned American?
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bell hooks, Madonna:
Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?
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Roland Marchand, Visions
of Classlessness, Quests for Dominion: American Popular Culture, 1945-1960.
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Michael Parenti, Class
and Virtue.
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Andrew Wernick, Vehicles
for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car.
Recommended:
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Gender Bibliographies
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John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture.
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Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism
or the Logic of Late Industrial Capitalism.
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Kenneth Lynn, The
Regressive Historians from The Airline to Seattle
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Jay Mechling, An
American Culture Grid, With Texts.
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Russel Reising, The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature.
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Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction,
1790-1860.
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Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950.
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Gene Wise, Paradigm
Dramas in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the
Movement.
10/06: American Studies/Regional Studies: Professor Ed Ayers
ASLAB #5
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Edward Ayers, Introduction
from All Over the Map.
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Edward Ayers, What
Do We Talk About When We Talk About the South? from All Over the
Map.
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William Faulkner,Was
from Go Down Moses
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Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Young Goodman Brown,from The Complete Novels and Selected Tales
of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Angelene Price, White
Trash: The Construction of an American Scapegoat MA97.
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John Shelton Reed, The
South:Where is it? What is it? from My Tears Spoiled my Aim.
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Elizabeth Semancik, Albion's
Seed Grows in the Cumberland Gap UG97.
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Mark Twain,
Jim Blaine's Grandfather's Old Ram from Cohen and Dillingham, eds.,
Humor of the Old Southwest
Suggested:
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Edward Ayers, The Promise of the New South.
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Edward Ayers, The Oxford Book of the American South.
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Edward Ayers, The
Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South.
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Jay Mechling, If They Can Build a Square Tomato: Notes Toward a Holistic
Approach to Regional Studies,Prospects, Vol. 4, 1979.
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Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth.
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John Shelton Reid, My Tears Spoiled My Aim.
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Austin Warren, The New England Conscience.
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Eudora Welty, Place in Fiction from The Eye of the Story: Selected
Essays and Reviews.
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The American Memory Project from
The Library of Congress.
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The Center for the Study of Southern
Culture.
NOTE:You should post your scanned article by 10/6.
10/15: American Studies/ Public History: Professor Phyllis Leffler
ASLAB #6
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David Lowenthal, Ch. 6, Changing
the Past, (pp. 263-363) from The Past is a Foreign Country.
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Peter Burke, The
New History, its Past and Future, pp. 1-23, from New Perspectives
on Historical Writing.
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Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality from Travels
in Hyperreality
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Levine, Lawrence W., William
Shakespeare in America from Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of
Cultural Hierarchy in America.
Suggested:
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John Bodnar, Remaking America : Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism
in the Twentieth Century.
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The Capital Project
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Buffalo
Bill
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Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember.
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James Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American
Life.
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Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Memory in
American Culture.
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Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and
Politics of Museum Display.
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Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Levine. eds.,Museums
and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture.
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Phyllis Leffler and Joseph Brent, Public and Academic History : A Philosophy
and Paradigm.(C)
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Phyllis Leffler, Public History Readings. (C)
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Gregg Mitman, Cinematic
Nature:Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the American Museum of
Natural History
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The Popular Memory Group, Popular
Memory: Theory, Politics, Method.
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David Middleton and Derek Edwards, ed., Collective Remembering
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The Smithsonian Institution.
10/20:Photography and American Studies: Professor John Bunch
ASLAB #7
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Thomas J. Schlereth, Mirrors of the Past: Historical Photography and
History, from Artifacts and the American Past.(C)
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America and Lewis Hine -- video (C)
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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.
(C)
Suggested:
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Ansel Adams, The American Wilderness,ed. by Andrea G. Stillman.
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AS@UVA
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David Sapir, Fixing
Shadows: Still Photography
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Richard Avedon, In the American West.
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Margaret Bourke White, The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White ed. by
Sean Callahan.
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Walker Evans, American Photographs, ed. by Lincoln Kirstein.
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Mapplethorpe.
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Susan Sonntag, On Photography.
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Maren Stange, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in
America, 1890-1950.
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Alan Trachtenberg, Photography as History
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Photography Collection of the
Farm Security Administration.
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The Art
of the American Daguerreotype.
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Unive
rsity of Deleware Symposium on Photography and Society.
10/27:American Studies and Popular Fiction: Professor Stephen Railton
ASLAB #8
Suggested:
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Little Women.
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James D. Hart, The Popular Book.
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John G. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance : Formula Stories as Art
and Popular Culture.
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Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture
in America.
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Glenwood Irons, ed., Gender, Language, and Myth : Essays on Popular Narrative.
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Hans Robert Jauss, Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory,
from Toward an Aesthetics of Reception.
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Mark McWilliams, With
Lee in Virginia.
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Frank Luther Mott, Golden Multitudes.
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Russel B. Nye, The Unembarrased Muse
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Stephen Railton, Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American
Renaissance.
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John Luther Long, Madam
Butterfly.
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Jane Tompkins, Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawhtorne's Literary
Reputation, and But is it any Good? : The Institutionalization of
Literary Value from Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American
Fiction, 1790-1860.
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Popular Culture Page
at Bowling Green State University.
11/03: American Studies/Film Studies: Professor Walter Korte.
ASLAB #9
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View Blade Runner (C) before class Monday.
NOTE: "Blade Runner is on reserve in Clemons and I have also reserved
a video room for 7:00 Sunday evening, November 2. There is also a big screen
showing Sunday Morning, Nov. 2, at 10:00 in Culbreth theatre (where you
can use your Arts Dollars for admission; get tickets at the Culbreth Box
Office): someone should organize a Blade Runner party.
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Joseph Fancavilla, The Android as Doppelganger, in Judith B. Kerman,
ed, Retrofitting Blade Runner(C)
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Judith B. Kerman, Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia
in Retrofitting...(C)
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William Fisher, Of
Living Machines and Living-Machines: Blade Runner and the Terminal Genre
Recommended:
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Paul N. Sammon, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner.
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Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
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Pauline Kael, Baby, the Rain Must Fall, The New Yorker, july 12,
1982.
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Paul Schrader, Notes on Film Noir, Film Comment, vol. 8, 1972.
Suggested:
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Robin Wood, Ideology,
Genre, Auteur.
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Umberto Eco, 'Casablanca:'
Or The Cliches are Having a Ball.
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Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio.
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Andrew Bergman, We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films.
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Emanuel Levy, Small-town America in Film : The Decline and Fall of Community.
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Capra,
Smith and Doe: Filming the American Hero
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The
West in Silent Films
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David Plowden, Small Town America.
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W.R.Robinson, ed., Man and the Movies.
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Steven Schoenherr, Multimedia and History.
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Paul Smith, The Historians and Film.
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Pointer to Resources
in Film Studies.
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Guide
to Film Studies.
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Film Database.
11/10: Art History and American Studies: Professor Roger B. Stein
ASLAB #10
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David M. Lubin, Introduction: The Politics of Method, in Picturing
a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America, pp. X-xvii.
(C)
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Roger B. Stein, A Portfolio: American Seascape Art, in Haskell Springer,
ed., America and the Sea, pp. 146-189. (C)
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Roger B. Stein, Packaging the Great Plains in Great Plains Quarterly,
vol. 5, pp. 5-23. (C)
Suggested:
Recommended:
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ArtSource: Directory
for Electronic Resources in Art.
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John Berger, Ways of Seeing.
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Ralph Henry Gabriel, The Pageant of America. (A 15 volume collection of
American images.)
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David M. Lubin, Labyrinths of Meaning in Vanderlyn's Ariadne, in Picturing
a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America, pp. 1-53.
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Christin J. Maniya, Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Super Market.
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Keith Moxey, Semiotics
and the Social History of Art.
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Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture : American Landscape and Painting,
1825-1875.
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Roger B. Stein, Americans and the Sea.
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Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word.
11/17: Architectural History and American Studies: Professor Richard G.
Wilson
NO LAB
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Richard Guy Wilson, et al, The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941,
Ch. 1-5 (C)
NOTE: The Machine Age itself is on reserve as well as xerox copies
of chapters 1, 3, and 5.
Alan Trachtenberg, Mechanization
Takes Command from The Incorporation of America.
Suggested:
Recommended:
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Richard Guy Wilson, ed., Thomas
Jefferson's Academical Village. (You may want to read the whole book;
you should read at least the essays by Wilson and Lasalla.)
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Richard Guy Wilson, The
Conflagration and the Making of the New' University, in Ed. Gaynor,
ed., Arise and Build.
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A
Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire.
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Peter Gibian,
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The Art of Being
Off-Center:Shopping Center Spaces and Spectacles.
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Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism:
or the Logic of Late Industrial Capitalism.
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Joan Kron, The
Semiotics of Home Decor.
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John A Kouwenhoven, Stone,
Steel, and Jazz, from Made in America.
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Temple of Liberty:
Building the Capitol for a New Nation.
Suggested:
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John Baeder, Diners.
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Lois A. Craig, The Federal Presence: Architecture, Politics, and Symbols
in United States Government Building.
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John A.Jakle, The Gas Station in America.
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James Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's
Man-Made Landscape.
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Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol.
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Sam Bass Warner, Jr., The Urban Wilderness.
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Richard Guy Wilson, The Making of Virginia Architecture.
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Richard Guy Wilson,, The Machine Age in America 1918-1941.
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Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House.
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ArtSource: Electronic
Resources in Architecture.
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Government/Politics HomePage.
NOTE:You should post your review of a book from the
Suggestions by 11/17. 11/24:Last day of class beforeThanksgiving
12/01:American Studies/Mass Communications: Professor John Sullivan.
OPEN LAB
Recommended:
Suggested:
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Robert C. Allen, ed., Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary
Criticism.
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Daniel Boorstin, The Image.
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Stuart Ewen, All Consuming Images : The Politics of Style in Contemporary
Culture.
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Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen, Channels of Desire : Mass Images and
the Shaping of American Consciousness.
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T. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace : Antimoderism and the Transformation
of American culture, 1880-1920
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Thomas Pyncheon, The Crying of Lot 49.
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Warren Sussman, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society
in the Twentieth Century.
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Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American
Mass Market,
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The CSPAN HomePage
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The American
Communications Association HomePage.
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The Media and Communications
Studies Page by Daniel Chandler at the University of Wales.
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Brown University's
Modern Culture and Media Program.
12/08: Folklife and American Studies: The Commiditization of Folk Culture.
Professor Charles Perdue.
OPEN LAB
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Robert Cantlwell,
Feasts of Unnaming, in R. Baron and N.R.Spitzer, eds., Public Folklore.
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Stephen J. Fjellman, Conclusion:Theses on Disney from Vinyl Leaves(C)
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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. (C)
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T. Jackson Lears, Packaging the Folk: Tradition and Amnesia in American
Advertising, 1880-1940.
Suggested:
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Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum.
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T. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance : A Cultural History of Advertising
in America.
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Charles Perdue, Weevils in the Wheat : Interviews with Virginia Ex-slaves.
12/15: Exams Begin
NOTE: Final Project, Doing American Studies,
due 12/20.
12/22: Exams End.
Vacation Reading: James Burke, Connections.
: Collect five unique electronic resources relating to technology
and American culture; post to /UG99/resource.html by 1/16/98
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