Cultures in Conflict/ Conflicting Cultures looks at the tensions and conflicts on numerous structural levels that have been a leitmotif of American culture throughout its entire history, namely in the form of a deep and profound preoccupation with the Other as a source of conflict or friction. The essays in this collection explore such moments of conflict in American culture from a variety of perspectives, most frequently looking at structural areas of friction within different forms of artistic expression, including film, photography, digital technologies, advertisements, and representations of sexual violence.