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This volume is the proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies: Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture<\/em>, which was hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, on September 9\u201310, 2022. The conference, which brought together twenty-two early-career\u00a0and senior scholars from across Europe, was co-organized by the Croatian Association for American Studies and two research centers affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek\u2014Centre for Popular Culture and Center for North American Studies. The keynote lecture, Challenging \u201cKaren\u201d Stereotypes<\/em>, was delivered by Kamilla Elliott, Professor of Literature and Media at Lancaster University. A rich variety of the contributions, in addition to the interdisciplinary scope and the relevance and appeal of the conference theme, provided an excellent forum for a\u00a0productive exchange of ideas on the construction and persistence of stereotypes and stereotypical representations in the context of both global popular culture and the American cultural space.<\/p>\nThe eight chapters contained in this volume aim to continue this conversation by exploring how the dynamics of making and breaking of stereotypes has been addressed in American cultural industries while illuminating a range of stereotypical tropes and processes of their production and dissemination as well as their wider (cross)cultural resonances, both historical and contemporary. Focusing on diverse cultural and semiotic practices and mediascapes\u2014from fiction, drama, film, and music to social-media blog, podcast, and memoir\u2014and approaching the subject matter from various theoretical and disciplinary angles, this volume explores not only the patterns inherent to the mobilization, cultural apprehension, and reinforcement of stereotypes but also mechanisms through which stereotypical attitudes, expectations, and representations can be circumvented, contested, and upended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Book of Proceedings from the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies, Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture<\/strong>,<\/em> has been published as open access by FF Press and Croatian Association for American Studies.