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The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne. The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Preface by Robin W. Winks. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives. Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, eds. Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace. Marshall W. Fishwick. Great Cars of the Great Plains. Curt McConnell. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Ed. James L. Watson. The History of Jazz. Ted Gioia. Puppets and “Popular” Culture. Scott Cutler Shershow. Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Haiping Yan, ed. Armonk Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post‐Elvis Age. David Walley. The Ignorance Explosion: Understanding Industrial Civilization. Julius Lukasiewicz. The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nick Talevski. Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book‐Length Comics. D. Aviva Rothschild. Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride. Horace Logan with Bill Sloan. Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present. Eugenia DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, and Jean O'Barr, eds. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Elizabeth R. Varon. Gender and American Culture series. Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Deirdre Boyle. What Evil Means to Us. C. Fred Alford. A Sense of Place: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Essays in Honor of William and Margery Vandament. Edited by Russell M. Magnaghi and Michael T. Marsden.     

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Fields of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Goldstein. Edited by Roger D. Abrahams. The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies. Edited by Mike Ashley and William G. Centento. Film, Horror and the Body Fantastic. Linda Badley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. R. F. Outcault's The Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics. Intro by Bill Blackbeard. Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. Michele H. Bogart. Overcoming Racism and Sexism. Editors Linda A. Bell and David Blumenfeld. Fast Food, Stock Cars, and Rock-n-Roll. George O. Carney, Editor. Alfred Hitchcock: The Legacy of Victorianism. Paula Marantz Cohen. The Coming Man: 19the Century American Perceptions of the Chinese. Philip P. Choy, Lorraine Dong, and Marlon K. Hom. The Muse is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans. Andrei Codrescu. Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Edited by Wu Dingbo and Patrick D. Murphy. Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History. John Decker. Rediscovering Nancy Drew. Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov, editros. The Politics of Mass Media. Calvin F. Exoo. Seeing Thorugh the Eighties: Television and Reaganism. Jane Feuer. Cultural Criminology. Edited by Jeff Ferrell and Clinton R. Sanders. Beggars & Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals. Mark S. Fleisher. Music Television and Popular Culture: Dancing in the Distraction Factory. Andrew Goodwin. Soap Fans. C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby. Was This Heaven? A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards. Lyell D. Henry Jr. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics Behind the Modern and the Postmodern. Douglas Kellner. Patently Offensive: Porn Under Siege. Produced by Harriet Koskoff. Prime Time Movers. David Marc and Robert J. Thompson. The Dustbin of History. Greil Marcus. Keeping Together In Time: Dance and Drill in Human History. William H. McNeill. A Writer's Companion: A Handy Compendium of Useful but Hard-To-Find Information on History, Literature, Art, Science, Travel, Philosophy and Much More. Edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Eleanor Powell: A Bio-Bibliography. Margie Schultz. Vital Mummies/Performance Design for the Show-Window Mannequin. Sara K. Schneider. Victorian Arena: The Performers. A Dictionary of British Circus Biography. Volume One. John Turner. Lakshana: Autopsy of a Century. Mark Slade. Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture 1890–1920. Abigail A. Van Slyck. How the Cimarron River Got Its Name and Other Stories About Coffee. Ernestine Sewell Linck. Forward by Clay Reynolds & Epilogue by J. Frank Dobie. The Life and Letters of Jesse Hill Ford, Southern Writer. With Annotations and Commentary. Anne Cheney.     

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Grenzenloses Vergnügen. Der Aufstieg der Massenkultul, 1850–1970. Kaspar Maase. Aesthetic Ideology. Edited by Paul de Man. Intro by Andrzej Warminski. Hazardous Duty. David H. Hackworth. The Lust Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information Age. Edited by Edward L. Hudgins. National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History. Polly Welts Kaufman. Manhood in America: A Cultural History. Michael Kimmel. Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier. Peavy, Linda, and Ursula Smith. Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's “Wolf Man.” Whitney Davis. The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Edited by Steven E. Woodworth.     

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The End of the World as We Know It. Daniel Wojcik. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel. Elizabeth Barnes. Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Lynne Vallone. Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidays. Leigh Eric Schmidt. Many Wests: Place, Culture, & Regional Identity. David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner, eds. The Cloister Walk. Kathleen Norris. Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women's Sport. Susan K. Cahn. The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in the Harsh New World of Professional Tennis. Peter Bodo. Cinema and Painting: How Art is Used in Film. Angela Dalle Vacche. Living in the Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station. H. Roger Grant. On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures. Noam Chomsky. The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. Don Mitchell. Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth according to Tony Brown. Tony Brown. Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn. David Hadju. At the Picture Show: Small-town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture. Kathryn H. Fuller. The Fear of Sinking: The American Success Formula in the Gilded Age. Paulette D. Kilmer. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. Henry Jenkins. All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society. Kenneth J. Bindas. The Pequot War. Alfred A. Cave. Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. Donald C. Jackson.     

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Communication Theory Today. David Crowley and David Mitchell, editors. Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film. Stuart C. Aitken and Leo E. Zonn, editors. The Ad Men and Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Advertising. Edd Applegate. Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill. Shelly Armitage. Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History. Robin Kadison Berson. The Schocking Ballad Picture Show: German Popular Literature and Cultural History. Tom Cheesman. From A to Zotamorf: The Dictionary of Palindromes. Stephen J. Chism. Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture. Les Cleveland. The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice. Robert C. Davis. Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India. Sara Dickey. The Cockfight: A Casebook. Alan Dundes, editor. The Lawyer and Popular Culture: Proceedings of a Conference. David L. Gunn, editor. Pride in the Jungle: Community and Everyday Life in Back of the Yards Chicago. Thomas J. Jablonsky. Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing. Stephen Kline. Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States. Charles H. Lippy. Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Robert Merrill. The Unreality Industry. Ian I. Mitroff and Warren Bennis. Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy. William Paul. Black and White in Colour: Black People in British Television Since 1936. Jim Pines, editor. The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography. Fred Miller Robinson. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Jonathan Shay. American Eats. Nelson Algren. The Beaver Bites Back: American Popular Culture in Canada. David H. Flaherty and Frank E. Manning, eds. The Battle of the Frogs and a Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the Engligh Revolution. Jerome Friedman. Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies: 1,000 Chunks of Chocolate Information. Linda K. Fuller. Andrew M. Greeley: An Annotated Bibliography. Elizabeth Harrison. Creativity and Popular Culture. David Holbrook. Schooling in the Light of Popular Culture. Paul Farber, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Gunilla Holm, editors. Perspectives on American Culture: Essays on Humor, Literature and the Popular Arts. M. Thomas Inge. The Gas Station in America. John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle. Montgomery Clift: A Bio-Bibliography. Mary C. Kalfatovic 7 Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. Norman M. Klein. Animation, Caricature and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada. An International Bibliography. Compiles by John A. Lent. Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance, 1967-1976. Glenn Man. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Joseph McAleer. Medieval Balladry and the Courtly Tradition: Literature of Revolt and Assimilation. Gwendolyn A. Morgan. Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture. Anne Norton. High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing 1950-1990. Robert C. Post. Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi & Maurice Slawinski, editors. Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image: An Interpretive Filmography, 1956-1993. Alfred Charles Richard, Jr. Peter Freese and Michael Porsche, editors. Popular culture in the United States.     

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Rock On Almanac: The First Four Decades Of Rock ‘N’ Roll—A Chronology. Complied by Norm N. Nite. The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Rock (sixth edition). Pete Frame, John Tobler, Ed Hanel, Roger St. Pierre, Chris Trengove, John Beecher, Clive Richardson, Gary Cooper, Marsha Hanlon, and Linda Sandahl. The Old Time Rock And Roll: A Chronicle Of An Era, 1954–1963. Richard Aquila. Ayres' The Rock Music Source Book (Doubleday, 1980), Jeff Green's The 1987 Green Book: Songs Classified By Subject (Professional Desk References, 1986), and B. Lee Cooper's A Resource Guide To Themes In Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950–1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986). Inside The Music Business: Music In Contemporary Life. Michael Fink. Review of Simply Cinema. Perry F. Mills. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650–1850. Dianne Dugaw. Handbook Of American Popular Culture—Three Volumes (second edition, revised and enlarged). M. Thomas Inge, editor. Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée. Henri Filippini. Politics in Familiar Places: Projecting Politics through Popular Media. Robert L. Savage and Dan Nimmo, editors. Conversations with Tom Wolfe. Dorothy M. Scura, editor. Television And The Quality Of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience. Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Gene D. Phillips. Constructing a Sociology of the Arts Vera L. Zolberg.     

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Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. Bret Hinsch. The History of the Comic Strip: The Nineteenth Century. David Kunzle. Readings in Popular Culture: Trivial Pursuits? Gary Day, ed. Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Naneteenth-Century English Canada. Peter Ward. Journal of the History of Sexuality. John C. Fout, ed. Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. By Thomas P. Hughes and Agatha C. Hughes. Le Savant et le Populaire. Mistrabilisme et Populisme en Sociologie et en Litthature. By Claude Grignon and Jean-Claude Passeron. Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. David Crowley and Paul Heyer, eds. When Radio Was Boss. Bill Earl. Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture. Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart. The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas. Tamar Liebes and Elihu Katz. Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World. Emile Sahliyeh, ed. The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation. Gregory Stephenson. Politics of Atrocity and Lust: The Vampire Tale as Nightmare History of England in the Nineteenth Century. Alok Bhalla. Nowhere in America: The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Other Comic Utopias. Hal Rammel. Suspense in the Formula Story. George N. Dove. Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin. Elizabeth Cummins. Understanding Contemporary American Science Fiction: The Formatiue Period, 1926-1970. Thomas D. Clareson.     

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Dancing In The Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, And The Electronic Media. Quentin J. Schultze, Roy M. Anker, James D. Bratt, William D. Romanowski, John W. Worst, and Lambert Zuidervaart. How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime. Roger Corman with Jim Jerome. Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Robert Merrill. Primitiue Art in Civilized Places. Sally Price. Feminism/Postmodernism. Linda J. Nicholson Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of An African Pofiular Music. Christopher Alan Waterman. Women's Sports: A History. Allen Guttmann. Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America. Mark C. Carnes and Clyde Griffen Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson Chains of Gold: Marketing the Ratings and Rating the Markets. Karen S. Buzzard. Understanding Television. Andrew Goodwin and Garry Whannel Less Than a Treason: Hemingway in Paris. Peter Griffin. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Cinema as Heresy. Naomi Greene. Arts and Entertainment Fads. Frank W. Hoffmann and William G. Bailey. High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture! Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik. Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High & Low. Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik Art, Culture & Enterprise: The Politics of Art and the Cultural Industries. Justin Lewis. Handbook of French Popular Culture. Pierre L. Horn Lords of the Scaffold: A History of the Executioner. Geoffrey Abbott. Science-Fiction: The Early Years. Everett F. Bleiler. Frontier Doctor: Medical Pioneer: The Life and Times of A.T. Still and His Family. Charles E. Still, Jr. Kirksville Andrew Taylor Still, 1828–1917. Carol Trowbridge. Coming to Terms: The German Hill Country of Texas. A Tale Type and Motif Index of Early U.S. Almanacs. J. Michael Stitt and Robert K. Dodge.     

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Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career. David Bakish Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Giabbaberto Bendazzi Fashion, Culture, and Identity. Fred David The Media and the Persian Gulf war. Robert E. Denton, Jr. The 1,000 Hour War: Communication in the Gulf. Thomas A. McCain and Leonard Shyles. Sam Shepard. David J. DeRose. From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions. Murray Edelman. What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of “Classic” Stories for Girls. Shirley Foster and Judy Simons. The Annonated Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner, 1914–1919. Ed. George W. Hilton. Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror: Jungian Archetypes in Horror Films. James F. Iaccino. Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Musak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong. Joseph Lanza. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium. Marc Leeds. Dancing With the Devil. José E. Limón. The Myth of Repressed Memeory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketchum. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Angela McRobbie. Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival. Leo N. Miletich. Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy. Ed. Marc. H. Miller. Bar-20: The Life of Clarence E. Mulford, Creator of Hopalong Cassidy, with Seven Original Stories Reprinted. Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Gilbert and Sullivan. Interviews and Recollections. Ed. Harold Orel. Words About Wizards: Recollections of Magicians and Their Magic, 1930–1950. Robert Parrish. Watch the Skies!: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. Curtis Peebles. Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Phillippe Perrot. Trans. Richard Bienvenue. It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, But Didn't We Have Fun?: Esquire in the Sixties. Carol Polsgrove. Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties. Patricia Raub. Supter Heroes: A Modern Mythology. Richard Reynolds. Disciplines of Delight. The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture. Barry Richards. The Critical Response to Bram Stoker. Ed. Carol A. Senf. Changing Appearances: Understanding Dress in Contemporary Society. George B. Sproles and Leslie Davis Burns. Bamboula: The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk. S. Frederick. The Power of Style: The Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well. Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins. Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theariticality in Latin America. Eds. Diana Taylor and Juan Villegas. Daring Do's: A History of Extraordinary Hair. Mary Trasko. Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell: Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King. Edwad J. Ingebretsen, S. J. Armonk.     

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American Comic Strip Collections. 1884–1939: The Revolutionary Era. Denis Gifford The Great American Comic Strip: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art. Judith O'Sullivan. Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass-observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s. Gary Cross A “Brand” New Language: Commercial Influences in Literature and Culture. Monroe Friedman. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos. Samuel M. Steward. The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society. Sut Jhally. Journal of Popular Culture Association of Japan Propaganda: A Pluralistic Perspective. Ted J. Smith C.G. Jung and the Humanities: Toward a Hermeneutics of Culture. Karin Barnaby and Pellegrino D'Acierno Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein From the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Prison Life Among the Rebels: Recollections of a Union Chaplain. Edward D. Jervey The Electronic Golden Calf: Images, Religion and the Making of Meaning. Gregor T. Goethals. The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life: A Fieldguide and Sourcebook. George H. Schoemaker Le Monde prive des Ouvriers. Hommes et Femmes du Nord. Oliver Schwartz. For Democracy, Workers and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865–95. Clark D. Halker. Popular Leisure in the Lake Counties. Lyn Murfin. Oxford Guide to Card Games. David Parlett. Place Images in Media: Portrayal, Exfierience, and Meaning. Leo Zonn The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats: Women in Films of the 1970s and 1980s. Marsha McCreadie. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, 1885–1985. Andrew Gulliford. The Politics of the Textbook. Michael W. Apple and Linda K. Christian-Smith. Explorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from Ciné-Tracts. Ron Burnett China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality. Steven W. Mosher. The Comics. 1947. Coulton Waugh. Introd. M. Thomas Inge. The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years. Mary Ann Watson. Body Food, Soul Food: The American Restaurant Then and Now. Richard Pillsbury. The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture. Don LePan. Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in its Practice, Essays on its Theory. Ronald L. Grimes. An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction. Thomas J. Roberts. Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Lawrence R. Broer. Popular Culture Review——“A Flower Sprouts in the Desert”     

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The Ultimate Fantasy Football League: 1992 Guide and Handbook. Bob Chon, Greg Colao, Randy Morrison, and Andrew Schilling. Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture and Victorian Sensationalism. Ann Cvetkovich. Of Media and People. Everette E. Dennis. Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America. Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett, eds. Popular Culture and Acquisitions. Allen Ellis, ed. My Life in the Negro Leagues: An Autobiography. Wilmer Fields. Starstruck: Celebrity Performers and the American Public. Jib Fowles. Hecho en Tejas: Texas-American Folk Arts and Crafts. Joe S. Graham, ed. Cursing in America. Timothy Jay. Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America. John King. Sports in North America: A Documentary History. Bloodsuckers: Vampires at the Movies. Scott Nance. Stephen King and Clive Barker: Masters of the Macabre II. James Van Hise. Monsterland Fearbook. James Van Hise, ed. The Well-Traveled Casket: A Collection of Oregon Folklife. Tom Nash and Twilo Scofield, eds. Panati's Parade of Fads, Follies and Manias: The Origins of our Most Cherished Obsessions. Charles Panati.     

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God in Popular Culture. Andrew M. Greeley. An Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary. Michael Horowitz, Karen Walls, Billy Smith. Highbrow, Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Lawrence W. Levine. The Right to be Human. Edward Hoffman. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. David S. Reynolds. Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Popular Religion. Charles H. Lippy. Richard Durham's Destination Freedom: Scripts From Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-50. J. Fred MacDonald, Editor. Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota. St. Paul Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America, 1923-1965. David Courtwright Children, Culture and Controversy. Mark I. West. Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing. Clinton R. Sanders. The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St. George’ Orwell. John Rodden. Discourse on Popular Culture. Morag Shiach. Crocket at Two Hundred: New Perspectives on the Man and the Myth. Michael A. Lofaro and Joe Cummings, Editor. The Arabbers of Baltimore. Ronald L. Freeman. The Study of Popular Fiction: A Source Book. Bob Ashley. The Indian On Capitol Hill: Indian Legislation and the United States Congress, 1862-1907. Markku Kenriksson. His Very Silence Speaks: Commanche—The Last Horse Who Survived Custer's Last Stand. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence. No Time To Wave Goodbye. Ben Wicks. When Russia Learned To Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917. Jeffrey Brooks. The American Writer and the University. Ben Siegel, Editor. Black Musical Theatre From Coontown to Dreamgirls. Allen Woll. Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783. Margaret Connell Szasz. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Terence Hines. Competence in Performance: The Crativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art. Charles L. Briggs. Studying Political Authority Through Architecture. The Social Meaning of Civic Space. Charles T. Goodsell. Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass Market Fiction For Women. Jan Cohn. The Japanese Through American Eyes. Sheila K. Johnson. The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class. Janet Wolff and John Seed, editors Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture. John Fiske, Bob Hodged and Graeme Turner, editors. Recreating Utopia in the Desert: A Sectarian Challenge to Modern Mormonism. Jans A. Baer. Selected Vaudeville Criticism. Anthony Slide. The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels For Women and the Quest For a New Sexual Identity. Carol Thurston. Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's The Name of Rose. N. Thomas Inge, editor. Kill For Collingwood. Richard Stremski. Halle's: Memoirs of a Family Department Store (1891-1982). James M. Wood. Letters of Marshall McLuhan. Selected and Edited by Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye. The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age. Harriet Ritvo. Future Focus Book in Lists II: The Sequel. Roger Reynolds, editor Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide. Malcolm South, editor. Crusade Against Drink In Victorian England. Lilian Lewis Shiman. Turned To Account: The Forms and Functions of Criminal Biography in Late Seventeenth-and Early Eighteenth-century England Lincoln B. Faller. American Popular Music and its Business: The First Four Hundred Years. Russel Sanjek. Heckling Hitler: Caricatures of The Third Reich. Zbynek Zeman. The Business of Being Buffalo Bill: Selected Letters of William F. Cody, 1879-1917. Sarah J. Blackstone. Art in a Democracy. Dough Blancy & Kristin B. Congdon, editor. Art Into Pop. Simon Frith and Howard Horne. Happy in the Service of the Lord: Afro-American Gospel Quartets in Memphis. Kip Lornell Pleasure of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment & Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France. Charles Rearick. Handbook of American Popular Literature. M. Thomas Inge, editor. Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. Susan G. Davis. Vision & Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art. Griselda Pollock.     

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The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires 1800–1900. George Reid Andrews. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years. Elizabeth Wayland Barber. The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television of Leslie Charteris' Robin Hood of Modem Crime, Simon Templal; 1928–1992. Burl Barer. Aspects of British Calendar Customs. Eds. Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood. Reading the Social Body. Catherine B. Burroughs and Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds. Ethnomimesis. Robert Cantwell. Al Capp Remembered. Elliott Caplin. Holy Days and Holidays. Edward M. Deems. The Cultural Studies Reader. Ed. Simon During. Songs About Work: Essays in Occupational Culture For Richard A. Reuss. Ed. Archie Green. The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media. John Hartley. Breaking the Ties that Bind: Popular Stories of the New Woman, 1915–1930. Ed. Maureen Honey. Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts and Criticisms. Ed. William H. Hynes and William G. Doty. Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Deidre Johnson. Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. Norman M. Klein. Meeting the Madwoman: An Inner Challenge for Feminine Spirit. Linda Schierse Leonard Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity. Peter Michelson. Feminism/Postmodemism. Ed. Linda J. Nicholson. Humor Scholarship: A Research Bibliography. Don L.F. Nilson. The Crawfish Book. Glen Pitre. Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and ContextS. Garyn G. Roberts. Gender in Popular Culture: Images of Men and Women in Literature, Visual Media, and Material Culture. Eds. Susan W. Rollins and Peter C. Rollins. Adult Comics: An Introduction. Roger Sabin. Society's Impact on Television: How the Viewing Public Shapes Television Programming. Gary W. Selnow and Richard R. Gilbert. Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era. Eric Smoodin. Media and Public Policy. Ed. Robert J. Spitzer. Football and Its Fans: Supporters and Their Relations with the Game, 1885–1985. Rogan Taylor. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature. Nancy Tuana. Almanac for Americans. Willis Thornton. Christmas on the American Frontier 1800–1900. John E. Bauer. Happy Birthdays Round the World. Lois S. Johnson. Jewish Holidays and Festivals. Ben M. Edidin. Round the Year with the World's Religions. Royston Pike. Season Feasts and Festivals. E.O. James. Yearbook of English Festivals. Dorothy Gladys Spicer. Imagining America: Dutch Youth and Its Sense of Place. Mel Van Eltern The Remote Control in the New Age of Television. Ed. James R. Walker and Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. Professors, Politics and Pop. Jon Wiener. “It 's Time for My Story”: Soap Opera Sources, Structure and Response. Carol Traynor Williams. Bodylore. Ed. Katharine Young.     

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Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man. Gordon F. Sander. Discovering Men. David H. J. Morgan. The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. James R. Kincaid. Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature. Wendy Simonds and Barbara Katz Rothman. Women and Self-help Culture: Reading between the Lines. Wendy Simonds. The Best Man-Selections from the First Three Years of MAN! Magazine. Sharon Adams, ed. Men in the Public Eye—The Construction and Deconstruction of Public Men and Public Patriarchies. Jeff Heam. To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance. Harbert Blau. Hollywood East. James Ponti. Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres. Harriett Hawkins. Cradle And All: A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Reading of Nursery Rhymes. Lucy Rollin. Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History. George F. Custen. Mae West: She Who Laughs, Lasts. June Sochen. Friends, Brothers, and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras. Nita Kumar. Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery. Ann Dally. Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation. Robert E. Kapsis. Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement, Ideology and Activism. Barbara Ryan. Creativity and Tradition in Folklore: New Directions. Simon J. Bronner, ed. Performance, Culture, and Identity. Elizabeth C. Fine and Jean Haskell Speer, eds. The History of Vanity. John Woodforde. Gender Relations in Australia: Donation and Negotiation. Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans, eds. Between the Wars, 1919–1939: The Cartoonists' Vision. Roy Douglas. Cajun Music and Zydeco. Philip Gould, photo. Barry Jean Ancelet Bundling: Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America. Henry Reed Stiles The Story of the Carol. Edmondstoune Duncan The History of the Christmas Card. George Buday. Christmas Traditions. William Muir Auld Heraldry and Floral Forms as Used in Decoration. Herbert Cole Jewish Ceremonial Institutions. William Rosenau. A Dictionary of Miracles. E. Cobham Brewer. Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them. Marie D. Webster Rest Days: The Christian Sunday, The Jewish Sabbath, and Their Historical and Anthropological Prototypes. Hutton Webster Folklore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditional Tales, Folk-Rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, Etc. T.F. Thistelton-Dyer Not Just for Children: The Mexican Comic Book in the Late 1960s and 1970s. Harold E. Hinds, Jr. and Charles M. Tatum. American Popular Culture. John Dean. Death in the Dining Room & Other Tales of Victorian Culture. Kenneth L. Ames. Popular Entertainment Research: How to Do it and How to Use It. Barbara J. Pruett. White on Black: Images of Africa and Black in Western Popular Culture. Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest. Denis McQuail. Jack the Ripper A to Z. Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner. Roadside Delights; Roadside Architecture of Yesterday and Today in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Will Anderson. Hidden in Plain Sight: An Examination of the American Arts. Martin Williams. Melville's Complaint: Doctors and Medicine in the Art of Herman Melville. Kichard Dean Smith. William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture. Ian Dyck. Images of American Life: A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Rdio and Television. Joel Spring.     

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Handbook of American Popular Culture. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. M. Thomas Inge, editor. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York. Robert W. Snyder. Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present. R. David Arkush and Leo O. Kee. From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest. Larry Smith, editor. The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma. John D. Dorst. Tenured Radicals: How Politics has Corrupted Our Higher Education Roger Kimball. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture George Lipsitz     

Book Reviews

Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather, to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion. Janis P. Stout. A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States. Sheila Rowbotham. Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials. John William Sayer. A West Texas Soapbox. Jim Sanderson. A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties. Larry Langman and Daniel Finn. A Guide to American Silent Crime Films. Larry Langman and Daniel Finn. All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom. Sanford Sternlicht. Arab Comic Strips: Politics of an Emerging Class Culture. Allen Douglas and Fedwa Matli-Douglas. Bing Crosby: A Bio-Bibliography. J. Roger Osterholm. Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's “Wolf Man.” Whitney Davis. Culture and Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850–1930. Katherine C. Grier. Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century. Dona Brown. American Popular Culture at Home and Abroad. Ed. Lewis H. Carlson and Kevin B. Vichcales. Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: An A to Z of Who's Who and What's What, from Aerobics and Bubble Gum to Valley of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa. Jane and Michael Stern.     

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Denisoff, R. Serge, and William D. Romanowski. Risky Business: Rock In Film. Gilman, Sander. The Jew's Body. Hall, Hal W. The Work of Louis L'Amour: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide. Porter, Susan L. With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America 1785-1815. Donald G. Godfrey. comp. Reruns on File: A Guide to Electronic Media Archives. Fowler, Karin J. Anne Baxter: a Bio-Bibliography. Robbins, Jhan. Inka Dinka Doo: The Life of Jimmy Durante. Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety. Sweeney, Kevin. Henry Fonda: a Bio-Bibliography. Riggin, Judith M. John Wayne: A Bio-Bibliography. Baughman, James L. The Republic of Mass Culture: Jouralism, Filmmaking and Broadcasting in America Since 1941. Bird, S. Elizabeth. For Enquiring Minds: a Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids. Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. Edited by Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi & Maurice Slawinski. Women and Religion: A Bibliographic Guide to Christian Feminist Liberation Theology. Compiled by Shelly Davis Finson. The Ted Williams Reader. Edited by Lawrence Baldassaro. Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. John B. Holway. A Genius by Moonlight. W.J.M. Brady. The Varieties of Sensory Experience: A Sourcebook in the Anthropology of the Senses. Edited by David Howes. Women's Comic Visions. Edited and Introduced by June Sochen. Semzons and Battle Hymns. Edited by Graham Walker and Tom Gallagher. The Whole Pop Catalog. The Berkeley Pop Culture Project. Ticket To Paradise: American Movie Theaters and How We Had Fun. John Margolies and Emily Gwathmey.     

Book Reviews

The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley. David Adler. Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Clive Bloom Deathtraps: The Postmodern Comedy Thriller. Marvin Carlson. The Book of Fairs. Helen Augur. Church Symbolism. F.R. Webber. The Easter Book of Legends and Stories. Alice Isabel Hazeltine and Elva Sophronia Smith. Festivals, Holy Days and Saints's Days. Ethel L. Urlin. American Popular Culture/La Culture populaire américaine. John Dean. Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Robin J. Dunitz. Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties. A Radical View. Catherine Itzin, ed. Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power. Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson, eds. Dark Knights: The New Comics in Context. Greg S. McCue, with Clive Bloom. Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, and Lawrence Grossberg, eds.     

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Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature. Michael Robertson. Differences in the Dark: American Movies and English Theater. Michael T.Gilmore Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: Robert Crumb Letters, 1958–1977. Ilse Thompson Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South. Rodger Lyle Brown. Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel. Craig Brandist. Travel Culture: Essays on What Makes Us Go. Carol Traynor Williams. Everybody Is Sitting on the Curb: How and Why America's Heroes Disappeared. Alan Edelstein. The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries, and Global Cultures. D. P. Martinez The Hallowed Eve: Dimensions of Culture in a Calendar Festival in Northern Ireland. Jack Santino.     

Book Reviews

More Tales of the Defective Detective in the Pulfis. Gary Hoppenstand, Garyn Roberts, and Ray B. Browne, editors. Heroes and Humanities: Detective Fiction and Culture. By Ray B. Browne. Laws of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Glen J. Browne. Forbidden Fruits: Taboos and Tabooism in Culture. Ray B. Browne, editor. Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture. Harold Hinds, Jr. and Charles Tatum, editors. Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisited. R. Serge Denisoff, with William Schurk. The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism. By Robert Pattison. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. Dorothy Sterling, ed. The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America. Buel, Joy Day, and Richard Buel, Jr. The Spy Story. John G. Cawelti and Bruce A. Rosenberg. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Nouel in America. By Cathy N. Davidson.