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. âChapter One: Containment at Home: Cold War, Warm Hearth.â Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. Basic books, 2008. 19-26.
Elaine May Tyler. âChapter Four: Explosive Issues: Sex, Women, and the bomb.âHomeward 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. âChapter Four: The Beginnings of Cold War.â Condensing the Cold War: Readerâs Digest and American Identity. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 83-106.