Acting Out Culture: Readings for Critical Inquiry - Softcover

Miller, James S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1319056741 ISBN 13: 9781319056742

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2017

Synopsis

Critically interpret those cultural messages that permeate society today while learning to use your writing to speak back to question the rules as Acting Out Culture empowers you to challenge and resist those forces.

About this title

About the Author:

James S. Miller is an associate professor of American Studies and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he teaches a range of courses on twentieth-century popular and literary culture. His scholarship focuses on issues of public memory and middle-class identity in twentieth-century America, as well as the role of commodity culture in shaping historical consciousness. His essays exploring these topics have appeared in such journals as American Studies, the Journal of American Folklore and The Public Historian. The University of Michigan Press published his book, Managerial Memory: History, Heritage and the Invention of White-Collar Roots, in 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1319056741
• ISBN 13: 9781319056742
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 592