American Culture in the 1990s Hardback - 2010

Twentieth-Century American Culture Series Editor: Martin Halliwell This series provides accessible but challenging studies of American culture in the twentieth century. Each title covers a specific decade and offers a clear overview of its dominant cultural forms and influential texts, discussing their historical impact and cultural legacy. Collectively the series reframes the notion of 'decade studies' through the prism of cultural production and rethinks the ways in which decades are usually periodized. Broad contextual approaches to the particular decade are combined with textual case studies, focusing on themes of modernity, commerce, freedom, power, resistance, community, race, class, gender, sexuality, internationalism, war, technology and popular culture. American Culture in the 1990s Colin Harrison 'I think the concept behind this book is sound. Clearly, a need exists (in universities and among a general, fairly educated readership in the US and the UK) for a book which attempts to make cultural sense of a complicated period. I imagine the volume would be especially appealing to instructors of media and contemporary history and literature. The availability of such a text could, in fact, prompt university instructors to design courses around its subjects. The author correctly situates the proposed volume within a current critical "void" in the market. The writing style, moreover, is accessibly pitched at an appropriate level for university students.' Allison Graham, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Memphis American Culture in the 1990s focuses on the dramatic cultural transformations of the last decade of the millennium. Lodged between the fall of Communism and the outbreak of the War on Terror, the 1990s was witness to America's expanding influence across the world but also a period of anxiety and social conflict. National traumas such as the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing and the impeachment of