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by Neil Campbell (Author), Alasdair Kean (Author), Andrew Dix (Author)
Now in its fifth edition, American Cultural Studies continues to offer a critical introduction to key concepts, topics and methods in the study of United States culture, exploring subjects that include the city, ethnicity and immigration, religion, youth, and gender and sexuality.
Author Biography
Neil Campbell is Emeritus Professor of American Studies at the University of Derby, UK. He published an interdisciplinary trilogy of books on the post-war American West: The Cultures of the American New West (2000), The Rhizomatic West (2008) and Post-Westerns: Cinema, Region, West (2013). He co-edited the book series Place, Memory, Affect and has a volume within it, Affective Critical Regionality (2016). He edited Under the Western Sky (2018), a collection of essays on the fiction and music of Willy Vlautin, and authored Worlding the Western (2022). He is currently working on a new book, Errant Wests.
Alasdair Kean is formerly Principal Lecturer in American Studies, University of Derby, UK.
Andrew Dix is Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of American Studies and Beginning Film Studies and, with Peter Templeton, the editor of Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter: African American History and Representation.
Peter Templeton is Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Open University, UK. His research interests include the culture of the US South and he is the author of The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785-1885: Jeffersonian Afterlives and Clerks: 'Over the Counter' Culture and Youth Cinema.
