American Studies, American Literature and American Film
Single Honours American Studies and American Studies with American Literature students will study AM1111, AM1203 and AM1205
Single Honours American Studies with American Film students will study AM1111,
AM1205 and FS1160
Combined Honours American Studies only will study AM1111.
Combined Honours American Literature will study AM1203 and AM1205.
Combined Honours American Film will study AM1205 and FS1160 Reading Film
Preliminary Reading List, Semester 1 2010-11
AM1111 Introduction to American Studies I
David Mauk and John Oakland (eds), American Civilisation: An Introduction (Routledge)
Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick (Norton Critical Edition)
Hector St John De Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (Oxford World
Classics)
AM 1203 America and Americanisation
You need to buy and read
Neil Campbell, Jude Davies & George McKay (eds) Issues in Americanisation and
Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2004)
AM 1205 American Genres
The module will primarily focus on visual texts (film, television, images) but we will be studying one novel:
Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
FS1160 Reading Film – no reading list yet available