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Introduction: Cultural Exceptionalism: Freedom, Imperialism, Power,America; PART I; SECTION 1: THE NEW JOURNALISM AND ITS LEGACY; Introduction;Tom Wolfe: What if he is right?; Susan Sontag: What's happening to America?;Stokeley Carmichael: Black is Good; Vine Deloria: Indians Today, the Real andthe Unreal; Marge Piercy: Through the Cracks; Hunter S. Thompson: Songs ofthe Doomed; SECTION 2: EUROPEAN CULTURAL THEORY AND ITS LEGACY; Introduction;Betty Friedan: The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud; Marshall McLuhan:Extracts from The Gutenberg Galaxy; Marshall Sahlins: Notes on the AmericanClothing System; Umberto Eco: Preface to the American Edition & Travels inHyperreality; Lawrence Grossberg: Cultural Studies and/in New Worlds; SECTION3: AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ITS LEGACY; Introduction; Elihu Katz: TheReturn of the Humanities and Sociology; James W. Carey: Mass Communicationand Cultural Studies; George Gerbner: Mass Media Discourse; Michael Schudson:The Politics of Narrative Form; Horace Newcomb: Television as a CulturalForm; SECTION 4: HISTORY AND LITERATURE AND THEIR LEGACY; Introduction; WardChurchill: Literature as a Weapon in the Colonisation of the American Indian;Houston A. Baker: Handling Crisis; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg: Writing History:Language, Class, and Gender; Rita Felski: The Doxa of Difference; JaniceRadway: What's in a Name?; PART II; SECTION 5: IDENTITIES; Introduction;Cindy Patton: Tremble, Hetero Swine!; Herman Gray: African-American PoliticalDesire and the Seductions of Contemporary Cultural Politics; James Houston &Arjun Appadurai: Cities and Citizenship; Jean Franco: Plotting Women. PopularNarratives for Women in the United States and Latin America; Marjorie Garber:The Transvestite Continuum; SECTION 6: PRACTICES; Introduction; Andrew Ross:The Great Un-American Numbers Game; George Lipsitz: Land of a ThousandDances: Youth, Minorities, and the Rise of Rock and Roll; Susan Willis:Work(ing) Out; Paula A. Treichler: Aids, Homophobia and Biomedical Discourse;Toby Miller: Extract from Technologies of Truth; SECTION 7: MEDIA;Introduction; John Fiske: Popularity and the Politics of Information; LynnSpigel: From Theatre to Space Ship. Methaphors of Suburban Domesticity inPostwar America; Robert Stam: Eurocentrism, Polycentrism, and MulticulturalPedagogy: Film and the Quincentennial; Henry Jenkins: Out of the Closet andinto the Universe. Queers and Star Trek; Mark Poster: Cyberdemocracy.Internet and the Public Sphere; Manuel Castells: Conclusion: The NetworkSociety; Epilogue: The Future is Present: American Cultural Studies on theNet (Eva Vieth)