Ray Browne on the Culture Studies Revolution An Anthology of His Key Writings
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
The late Ray B. Browne (1922–2009) edited the Journal of Popular Culture, served as an officer of the Popular Culture Association and wrote prolifically on the subject. He was the founding chair of the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. Ben Urish is a culturologist specializing in mass media, popular culture, and humor studies. The author of several books, he was one of the last students Ray Browne taught before retirement.Author and educator Ray Browne combined interests in folklore, literature, and American Studies into a groundbreaking approach to the study of the humanities and social sciences, a field which eventually came to be known as Popular Culture Studies. In addition to co-founding both the Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture, Browne wrote and published more than 80 articles and book chapters and eight books, and edited almost 50 other book-length volumes. This collection features his key culture studies writings from a decades-long academic career. It includes some of Browne's most influential and notable scholarship, along with previously unpublished work, corrected pieces, and "new" articles edited from multiple sources.
Editor’s Acknowledgments (Ben Urish)
Foreword ( John Cawelti)
Preface: Ray B. Browne, Freely Engaged (Ben Urish)
Prologue. On Redefining Cultural Studies
PART ONE: BLAZING THE TRAIL
1. Popular Culture: Notes Toward a Definition
2. Popular Culture: New Notes Toward a Definition
3. The Many Faces of American Culture: The Long Push to Democracy
4. The Humanities as Redefined Through Popular Culture
5. Popular Culture: Medicine for Illiteracy and Associated Educational Ills
PART TWO: CLEARING THE HORIZON
6. Up from Elitism: The Aesthetics of Popular Fiction
7. The Repressive Nature of TV Esthetics Criticism
8. The Face of the Hero in Democracy
9. The Theory-Methodology Complex: The Critics’ Jabberwock
10. Internationalizing Popular Culture Studies
11. The Vanishing Global Village
PART THREE: TOPICS AND EXAMPLES
12. Whale Lore and Popular Print in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America: Sketches Toward a Profile
13. The Seat of Democracy: The Privy Humor of “Chic” Sale
14. Sherlock Holmes as Christian Detective: The Case of the Invisible Thief
PART FOUR: MEANDERINGS AND EXCURSIONS
15. The Rape of the Vulnerable
16. Class Reunions as a Folk Festival
17. The ASA and Its Friends
18. Folklore to Populore
19. Replying to a Rejoinder
20. American Studies and Humanity’s Dream
21. Russel B. Nye: The Richness of His Life
22. Reviews
Epilogue. Education: Forward to Democratic Fluency
Annotated Bibliography
Index