Piotr Skurowski

Methodologies in American Studies 17.02.2013
Prof. Piotr Skurowski
pskurows@swps.edu.pl

Cold War and American Culture

Reading list

Required reading:

Godfrey Hodgson. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. Yale University Press, 2009. 83-111.

Daniel Wojcik. The End of the World as we Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America. New York University Press,1997.

Christine Klein. Cold War Orientalisms: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination 1945-1961. University of California Press, 2003. 19-60. 97-132.

Optional reading:

Elaine May Tyler. “Chapter One: Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth.” Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic books, 2008. 19-26.

Elaine May Tyler. “Chapter Four: Explosive Issues: Sex, Women, and the bomb.”Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic books, 2008. 89-108.

Bernice M. Murphy. The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 76-85.

Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith, eds. Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader. Pluto Press, 2009. 38-53.

Joanne P. Sharp. “Chapter Four: The Beginnings of Cold War.” Condensing the Cold War: Reader’s Digest and American Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 83-106.