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-= final examination topics: MA, American: culture
+= final examination topics: MA, American: American Studies Theories, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture
+# Keywords of early American culture: covenant ideas of Puritanism, Antinomianism, religious dissent, evangelical democracy.
+# Keywords of modern American culture: American exceptionalism, the myth of individualism, the feminine mystique.
+# Reinterpreting the “sacred texts” of America (The Declaration of Independence, The Declaration of Sentiments; the speeches of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, John Wannuaucon Quinney, Chief Red Jacket, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, etc.).
+# Manifest destiny and manifest domesticity.
+# The American dream.
+# Class in American society.
+# The intellectual history of women: Puritan subversion, separate spheres, women's history, female relations in the 19th century, the gender of individualism.
+# Paradigms and paradigm changes in American Studies.
+# The “pictorial turn”
+# Visual culture versus art history
+# The social construction of the visual and the visual construction of the social in American culture
+# Race, gender and visual representation (empowerment and disempowerment of vision)
+# Elite/popular culture vs. mass culture theories
+# Representation of race and gender in popular culture and mass media
+# Major tropes, genres, and media in American popular culture (Frontier and the Western; romance and the romantic comedy; sitcoms: suburbs, family and domesticity; the fantastic and utopia/dystopia; social media, culture and identity construction; choose one for detailed analysis)
+== recommended readings
+* Althen, Gary (with Doran Amanda and Szmania Susan), American Ways, 2nd Edition, Intercultural Press, 2003.
+* Ehrenreich, Barbara, Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream. Holt, 2005.
+* Ehrenreich, Barbara, Nickel and Dimed. Holt, 2001.
+* Rothstein, Bo, Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (Theories of Institutional Design). Cambridge University Press, 2005.
+* McFarlane, C. K., ed., Readings in Intellectual History: The American Tradition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
+* Hollinger, David A., and Charles Capper, ed., The American Intellectual Tradition, I−II. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
+* Pease, Donald E., ed., National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
+* Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation. Penguin Books, 2002.
+* Harley, Gail M., Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought. Syracuse UP, 2002.
+* Macionis, John, Social Problems (4th edition). Prentice Hall, 2009.
+* Kerber, Linda K., No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies. Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
+* Kerber, Linda K., Towards an Intellectual History of Women. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997.
+* Kerber, Linda K., Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980.
+* Kerber, Linda K., Alice Kessler-Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar, U. S. History as Women’s History. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995.
+* Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron de Hart, Women’s America. Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
+* Mooney, Linda, D. Knox, and C. Schacht, Understanding Social Problems (7th edition). Wadsworth, 2010.
+* Maddox, Lucy, ed., Locating American Studies. The Evolution of a Discipline. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
+* Baker Eddy, Mary, Manual of the Mother Church (The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts). IndyPublish, 2007.
+* Machin, David, and Theo van Leeuwen, Global Media Discourse. Routledge, 2007
+* Horwitz, Richard P., ed., The American Studies Anthology. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
+* Phillip, Rayner, Peter Wall, Stephan Kruger, Media Studies: The Essential Resource. Routledge, 2004
+* Kephart, William, and W. Zellner, Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles, 5th ed. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
+* Kornblum, William, and J. Julian, Social Problems (13th edition). Prentice Hall, 2008.