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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Reviews
'American Culture Transformed offers an interesting sampling of the cultural landscape in America after 9/11. The authors provide compelling snapshots of iconic moments and figures from the military, economics, the arts, and politics. The book will stir memories and make us uncomfortable again.'
- Mary Poovey, New York University, USA
'With its clear methodology and its sweeping approach, Dialing 9/11 is an accessible and overall convincing approach to that recent decade.' -Transatlantica
'Published just months after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Priscilla L. Walton and Bruce Tucker's American Culture Transformed, by pertaining to both media and gender studies, strives to contribute a complementary and original point of view to the debates about the post-9/11 years...it is highly documented, accessible, and is pleasant to read for scholars or non-scholars interested in various aspects of American contemporary culture.' - Vincent Souladié, Media and Diversity, 2014
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
PRISCILLA L. WALTON is a professor of English at Carleton University, Canada, and Director of the Carleton Centre for Research in American Studies. She is also editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies, and has published numerous books and articles in the United States and Canada, including Our Cannibals, Ourselves (2004) and co-authored Detective Agency: Women Re-Wrting the Hardboiled Tradition (1999), Border Crossings: Thomas King's Comic Inversions (2003), and others. She was the first Canadian president of the International Narrative Society, President of the Henry James Society, and President and Session Chair of the MLA Division of Literatures Other than British and American. She has also served on the PMLA Advisory Committee, and been a member of the Program Committee of the American Studies Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: American Culture Transformed
Book Subtitle: Dialing 9/11
Authors: Bruce Tucker, Priscilla L. Walton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137002341
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-00233-4Published: 31 July 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03349-9Published: 31 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-00234-1Published: 31 July 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 179
Topics: Media Studies, Cultural History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Research, Screen Studies, Cultural Studies