Explores James’s concept of the individual in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and religion.

Explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.

Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.

Connects the American exceptionalist ethos to the violence in Vietnam and the Middle East.

Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.

Explores the role of the literary protest essay in addressing social divisions in the United States.

Provides a fresh perspective on the undeniable relationship between education reform and democratic revitalization.

Critically examines the quiz show genre in American culture from the 1930s to the present.

Details the reactions of men and women serving aboard a hospital transport ship during the American Civil War.

Examines the forces that have shaped Italian American writing, from the novels of John Fante to the musings of Tony Soprano.

Examines the battle to develop the oil resources of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Investigates the changing relationship of humanities, culture, and interdisciplinarity and its impact on humanities disciplines, American culture studies, and undergraduate education.

Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.

Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Using a life history approach, looks at what influences citizens to participate in the voluntary associations that comprise and promote civil society.

An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.

A history and social psychology of punk music.

A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism.

Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.

Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Explores leadership and civic virtue in American culture.