American Popular Culture
The American Popular Culture research group was inaugurated to bring together the considerable research endeavour of staff in the subject area whose work is interdisciplinary, cannot be confined to one medium and is characterised by a focus on American artefacts. The group has strong links with international scholars in American Studies as well as in the CCMS subject area.
Membership
Includes Chopra-Gant (convenor) specializing in film history and, with
Sedgwick, on American film audiences, Cobley (the American thriller),
Gough-Yates (US magazines and television), Osgerby (American youth,
masculinity, ‘pulps’ and material culture).
Research projects
2006: ‘Cinemagoing and the American movie audience’, funded by the
AHRC, examining patterns of cinemagoing in the USA in the mid twentieth
century. ‘American toughness’, a multimedia investigation into the
connections of Americanness and toughness (research panels delivered at
Phoenix, Oxford, Tampere and Oxford again)
2007: ‘The "paranoid style" in American culture’; ‘The changing
portrayal of youth in popular media’, contribution funded by the
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvannia to study of
history of American youth market.
Conference
2004: ‘American Quality Television’, co-organized with and held at Trinity College, Dublin.
Seminars
2005: Stella Bruzzi (Brunel).
2006: Leonard Quart (NYU); Karen Randell and Jacqueline Furby
(Southampton Solent); Elizabeth Wilson (Emeritus, London Metropolitan);
Jonathan Gray (Fordham); Mark Glancy (QMU); Christine Geraghty
(Glasgow).
2007: Christopher Gair (Birmingham University); Melvyn Stokes (UCL);
Michelle Aaron (Birmingham University), Mark Jancovich (UEA).
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