Book Reviews

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. The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787-1861. Nicole Etcheson. Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions of the Northern Plains. Howard L. Harrod. Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898. Mary Leefe Laurence. Thomas T. Smith, ed. Lincoln. The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History. Catherine Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America. Herbert I. Schiller. The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction. Stephen Soitos. All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom. Sanford Stemlicht. John Wayne, American. Randy Roberts and James S. Olson. The Culture of the Cold War. Second Edition. Stephen J. Whitfield. Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama. Douglass K. Daniel.     

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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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Folk Law: Essays in the theory and Practice of Lex Non Scripta. Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes. Step Right Up. Brooks McNamara. Scottie: The Daughter of…: The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald. Lanahan Eleanor. Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country & Rock 1900–1950. Chuck Mancuso.     

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Directory Of Popular Culture Collections. Compiled by Christopher D. Geist, Ray B. Browne, Michael T. Marsden, and Carole Palmer. Britain Can Take: The British Cinema in the Second World War. Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards. Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body. Arnold Rubin. Following In His Steps: A Biography of Charles M. Sheldon. Timothy Miller. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Jerome Bruner. Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporaneas (Studies of Contemporary Cultures). The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur Upfield. Ray B. Browne. The Positive Zmage: Women Photographers in Turn of the Century America. C. Jane Gover. Dictionary Of Britain: An A-Z Of The British Way Of Life. Adrian Room. Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibitions and World's Fairs, 1851-1939. Paul Greenhalgh. The Bosom Serpent: Folklore And Popular Art. Harold Schechter. Professional and Popular Medicine in France, 1770-1830: The Social World of Medical Practice. Matthew Ramsey. Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities For Amusement and Profit. Robert Bogdan. Mothers & Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding 1890-1950. Rima D. Apple. Toward A Well-Fed World. Don Paarlberg. Creating Culture: Foucault, Thompson, Levi Strauss, Freud, Malinowski, Boas, Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Habermas, Williams, Geertz, Bourdieu, Taylor, Frazer. Edited by Diane J. Austin-Broos. The Walking Larder: Patterns of Domestication, Pastoralism, and Predation. Edited by J. Clutton-Brock. The Sound of History: Songs and Social Comment. Roy Palmer. When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917. Jeffrey Brooks.     

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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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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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I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club. Matthew A. Donahue. Forward through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan. Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart John Jakes: A Critical Companion. Mary Ellen Jones. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Shawn James Rosenheim. The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey. Entertaining Tsarist Russia. James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds, eds. The Language of Landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn. Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence. The Lost Works of William Carlos Williams: The Volumes of Collected Poetry as Lyrical Sequences. Robert J. Cirasa. For the Time Being: Ethnography of Everyday Life. Richard Quinney. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism through Children's Books and Magazines. Kathryn Castle. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cecile Whiting. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. Who Is Andy Warhol? Colin MacCabe, ed. Coming of Age in Cyberspace. David S. Bennahum. Masculinities, Spectatorship, and Contemporary Consumption. Sean Nixon. Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective. Don Pittman, Ruben Habito, Herry Much, eds. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. Kathleen Ragan, ed. Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning. Ien Agn, Ruth Barcan, Helen Grace, Elaine Laly, Justine Lloyd, and Zoe Sofoulis, eds.     

Book Reviews

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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Lives Together/World Apart: Mothers and Doughters in Popular Culture. Suzanna Danuta Walters. Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870. Bruce McConachie. Mass Communications in the Caribbean. John A. Lent. Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books. Jerry Griswold. Private Screenings: Television, and the Female Consumer. Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors. Lynda S. Boren and Sara DeSaussure Davis, eds. Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou Nazi-Retro Film. Robert C. and Carol J. Reimer. Prime Time and Misdemeanors: Investigating the 1950s TV Quiz Scandal—A D.A.'s Account. Joseph Stone and Tim Yohn. Changing Channels: America in TV Guide. Glenn Co. Altschuler and David I. Grossvogel. The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and Its Audience. Lewis Justin. Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History. John Corner (editor). Acts of Supremacy: The Britsh Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930. J.S. Bratton, Richard Allen Cave, Breandon Gregory, Heidi J. Holder, and Michael Pickering. Sports and Recreation Fads. Frank W. Hoffmann and William G. Bailey. World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime. Jay Robert Nash. Dictionary of Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminolgoy & LAw Enforcement. Compiled by Jay Robert Nash. Popular Culture in Modern France: A Study of Cultural Discourse. Brian Rigby. The Making of Middle Brow Culture. Joan Shelley Rubin. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860. Patricia Anderson. Haven't I See You Somewhere Before? Remakes, Sequels, and Series in Motion Pictures, Videos and Television, 1896–1990. James L. Limbacher. On Coon Mountain: Scenes from a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills. Glen Ross. Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly. Patrick B. Mullen. James Stewart: A Bio-Bibliography. Gerard Molyneaux. Popular Fiction in England 1914–1918. Harold Orel. Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada and the United States. Richard M. Merelman.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Mary Corey, The World Through a Monacle: The New Yorker at Midcentury Mark A. Lause, The Civil War's Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback‐Labor Party & the Politics of Race & Section Denis McNally, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead Elaine L. Graham, Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture Kerry Acker, Everything You Need to Know About the Goth Scene Gavin Baddeley, Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture Paul Hodkinson, Goth: Identity, Style, Subculture Mick Mercer, 21^st Century Goth Timothy Shary, Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema David Simon, Tony Soprano's America: The Criminal Side of the American Dream Sarah A. Leavitt, From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice Joseph Stanton, Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Maria Tatar, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales Tim Wolter, POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire     

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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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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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Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute The Children's Culture Reader. Henry Jenkins Ancient Greek Popular Literature. William Hansen Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium. Avital Ronell Celebrity Caricature in America. Wendy Wick Reaves Jean‐Luc Goddard. Interviews. David Sterritt Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know. Mark S . Fleisher The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism. J. Hoberman Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture. Richard P. Horwitz. The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western. Michael Coyne Tennis: A Cultural History. Heiner Gillmeister Meat Is Murder! An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture. Mikita Brottman.     

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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.     

Book Reviews

Popular Writing: A College Reader. By Harold Stolerman and Helene O'Connor. The Games Must Go On: Avery Brundage and the Olympic Movement. By Allen Guttman. Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind. By Stephen A. Smith. Sad Clowns and Pale Pierrots: Literature and the Popular Comic Arts in 19th-Century France. By Louisa E. Jones. Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime. By Robert Storey.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars

John Walter and Roger Schofield (eds), Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society (1989), xiv + 335(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £35.00).

Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660–1770 (1989), xxii + 416 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £37.50).

William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989), xi + 466, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50).

E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (1988), vii + 146 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £17.50).

Pat Hudson, Regions and Industries: A Perspective on the Industrial Revolution in Britain (1989), xiii + 277 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £30.00).

Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments. The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid‐Victorian England (1989), xi + 282 (Virago Press, £12.99).

Gerald D. Surh, 1905 in St Petersburg: Labor, Society and Revolution (1989), xvii + 456 (Stanford University Press, Stanford, $45.00).

Geoffrey Swain

Bristol Polytechnic

Avner Offer, The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (1989), xx + 449 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £25.00).

Arthur Marwick (ed.), Total War and Social Change (1988), 160 (Macmillan, £29.50, paperback £8.95).

Vladimir Andrle, Workers in Stalin's Russia: Industrialization and Social Change in a Planned Economy (1988), xii + 243 (Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, £40.00).

Hiroaki Kuromiya, Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928–1932 (1988), xviii + 364 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £27.50).

Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941 (1988), xv + 325 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).

Peter Duus (ed.), The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 6: The Twentieth Century (1988) xviii + 866 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £60.00).

Morag Shiach, Discourse on Popular Culture (1989), viii + 238 (Polity Press, Cambridge, £25.00).     

The Plantation

David Herlihy, Medieval Households (1985), vii + 227 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., £23#lb50, paperback £8#lb95).

Peter Blickle, Gemeindereformation. Die Menschen des 16. Jahrhunderts auf dem Weg zum Heil (1985), 234 (Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, DM 88).

[Communal Reformation. People of the Sixteenth Century on the Road to Salvation.]

Giovanni Levi, L'eredità immateriale: camera di un esorcista nel Piemonte del seicento (1985), 202 (Einaudi, lire 18,000).

Richard B. Sher, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment. The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh (1985), xix + 390 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, £30#lb00).

The English Satirical Print, 1600–1832: John Brewer (ed.), The Common People and Politics, 1750–1790S (1986), 304 + 120 plates (Chadwyck‐Healey, £40#lb00.).

Roger Miller and Torvald Gerger, Social Change in Nineteenth‐century Swedish Agrarian Society (1985), 130 (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Stockholm Studies in Human Geography, 5, Almqvist and Wicksell International, Stockholm, n.p.).

Peter Scholliers, De Gentse metaalbewerkers in de 19e eeuw: de enquete van L. Varlez (1985), 1 + 185 + appendix (Centrum voor Hedendaagse Sociale Geschiedenis, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, n.p.).

Annarita Buttafuoco, Le Mariuccine: storia di un istituzione laica, l'Asilo Mariuccia (1985) 491 (Franco Angeli, Milan, lire 28,000).

L. Margaret Barnett, British Food Policy during the First World War (1985), xix + 241 (George Allen &; Unwin, £25#lb00).

Mary Langan and Bill Schwarz (eds), Crises in the British State 1880–1930 (1985), 288 (Hutchinson University Library, paperback £8#lb95).     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

The Ice Opinion. By Ice T as told to Heidi Siegmund. Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. Rima D. Apple. Lake Superior Place Names: From Bawating to the Montreal. Bernard C. Peters. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism Through Children's Books and Magazines. Kathryn Castle. Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling. The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective. Edited by Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough. Theatres of Memory. Raphael Samuel. Them Damned Pictures: Explorations IN American Political Art. Roger A. Fischer. American Dreamtime: A cultural Analysis of Popular Movies, and Their Implications for a Science of Humanity. Lee Drummond. Learning From Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture Studies. Edited by W. David Kingery. Work As Art: Idaho Logging As An Aesthetic Moment. Charlene James-Duguid. Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. Mike Wallace. BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller's Ideas for Today. J. Baldwin. Nice Work If You Can Get It: My Life In Rhythm and Rhyme. Michael Feinstein. Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time. Howard Kurtz. American Popular Culture at Home and Abroad. Lewis H. Carlson and Kevin B. Vichcales, editors. Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life. William D. Romanowski. Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture Since 1788. Richard Waterhouse. The Rage of a Privileged Class. Ellis Close. Leading With My Chin. Jay Leno. The Walls of Jericho. Robert Mann. Juba This & Juba That: 100 African-American Games for Children. Darlene Powell Hopson and Derek S. Hopson.