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A Cultural History of the Emergence of American Exceptionalism after World War II

二战后美国例外主义兴起的文化史

基本信息

批准号：
2447420
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2447420
关键词：
Cultural History Emergence American Exceptionalism

项目摘要

My proposed project entails a cultural history of the origins and growth of 'American exceptionalism'-the notion theUnited States is somehow a unique nation with a special destiny to lead the world-in the American popular imaginationin the years after the Second World War. I hope to demonstrate how exceptionalism is explicitly a function of theAmerican rise to great power status in the post-war settlement and, crucially, to understand and historicise the exactprocess whereby it subsequently became embedded in the collective American imagination. The research will be basedon analysis of popular cultural sources, primarily comic books and films, and roughly spanning chronologically from the1930s to the 1970s. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly, though exceptionalism has become an integral facet ofAmerican national identity, I contend much academic literature on its origins and development is insufficientlyhistoricised, making it a topic ripe for re-examination from a new methodological perspective. Secondly, I am convincedof the powerful explanatory potential of such popular cultural sources in studying the history of ideas. Decentring thenarrative away from the works of a select few, high-society intellectuals, the analysis of popular cultural sources revealsthe existence, circulation, and operation of such discourses far beyond the tight confines of elite circles anddemonstrates more powerfully their widespread, unpredictable, and transformative potential.

我提出的项目需要的起源和“美国例外主义”的增长的文化史-美国是一个独特的国家，有一个特殊的命运，以领导世界的概念-在美国流行的宣传在第二次世界大战后的几年。我希望证明例外论是如何明确的一个功能，美国崛起的大国地位，在战后解决，至关重要的是，理解和历史化的确切过程，它随后成为嵌入在集体美国的想象力。这项研究将基于对流行文化来源的分析，主要是漫画书和电影，大致按时间顺序从20世纪30年代到70年代。原因有两方面。首先，尽管例外论已经成为美国国家认同的一个组成部分，但我认为，许多关于它的起源和发展的学术文献都不可避免地被历史化了，这使得它成为一个从新的方法论角度重新审视的话题。第二，我相信这种流行文化来源在研究思想史方面具有强大的解释潜力。从少数上流社会知识分子的作品中分散叙事，对流行文化来源的分析揭示了这种话语的存在，流通和运作远远超出了精英圈子的严格限制，并更有力地展示了它们广泛的，不可预测的和变革的潜力。