Thursday, March 21, 2019
European Journal of American Culture 38.1 is now available
Intellect is excited to announce that the European Journal of American Culture 38.1 is now available! For more information about the special issue, journal and calls for papers, click here >> www.intellectbooks.com/european-journal-of-american-culture
Journal focus: American Horror Story
Aims & Scope
The European Journal of American Culture is a peer-reviewed journal that aims to encompass the evolution of America and its culture. It is particularly interested in how the visual arts, politics, literature, history and media engage with cultural issues. EJAC aims to present a fresh perspective on American culture in all its forms.
Issue 38.1
Editorial
John Wills
Introduction
Telling national stories in American Horror Story
Harriet Earle and Jessica Clark
Articles
Tracing Tituba through American Horror Story: Coven
Dara Downey
‘We’re more than just pins and dolls and seeing the future in chicken parts’: Race, magic and religion in American Horror Story: Coven
Jennifer O’Reilly
White coat, white alb, white mic: Institutions of truth in America in American Horror Story: Asylum
Jocelyn Sakal-Froese and Christina Fawcett
‘It’s a filthy goddamn helpless world’: Reimagining Columbine, Tate Langdon and the spectre of school shooters
Shellie McMurdo
American Horror Story: Capital, counterculture, and the freak
Stevi Costa
‘You’re certainly Edward Sexton with that needle and thread’: Fantasies of sharing, tearing and wearing the ‘Common Skin’ in American Horror Story
Freya Verlander
Book Reviews
- The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the Present day, Michael L. Krenn (2017)
- Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing, Donna Campbell (2016)
- The Beauty of a Social Problem: Photography, Autonomy, Economy, Walter Benn Michaels (2015)
- The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace, Susan L. Carruthers (2016)
