Book Reviews

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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The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860. Patricia Anderson. Jim and Tummy—Charismatic Intrigue Inside PTL. Joe E. Barnhart. Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media. David Buckingham, editor. The Lure of the Sea. Alain Corbin. Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture. Gary Cross. Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception. Jon Cruz and Justin Lewis, editors. Business and the Culture of the Enterprise Society. John Deeks. Small Nations, Big Neighbour: Denmark and Quebec/Canada Compare Notes on American Popular Culture. Roger de la Garde, William Gilsdorf and Ilja Wechselmann, editors. Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture. Wu Dingbo and Patrick D. Murphy, editors. Ginger Rogers: A Bio-Bibliography. Jocelyn Faris. Christmas in the Good Old Days. Daniel J. Foley. Festivals of Europe. Gordon Cooper. Festivals of Western Europe. Dorothy Gladys Spicer. The Cosby Show: Audiences, Impact, and Implications. Linda K. Fuller. Utopian/Dystopian Literature: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism. Paul G. Haschak. Cultural Studies. Fred Inglis. Walt Disney: A Bio-Bibliography. Kathy Merlock Jackson. Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News—And Why. Carl Jensen. Leisure in a Changing America: Multicultural Perspectives. Richard Kraus. Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Jack Kugelmass. “Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitejield and the Transatlantic Revivals. Frank Lambert. Sport and the English Middle Classes 1870–1914. John Lowerson. Dance Marathons; Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Carol Martin. The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats: Women in Films of the 1970s and 1980s. Marsha McCreadie. Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney. Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman. All Talk: The Talkshow in Media Culture. Wayne Munson. Dickens' Journalism: Sketches by Boz and Other Early Papers 1833–39. Vol 1. Edited by Michael Slater. The Dark Side of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, Necessity. Harry Stone. Fiction, Crime and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism. Jon Thompson. Re-Made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society. Edited by Joseph J. Tobin. Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies. Edited by Graeme Turner. Wal-Mart: A History of Sam Walton's Retail Phenomenon. Sandra S. Vance and Roy V. Scott. The Show Starts on the Sidewalk: An Architectural History of the Movie Theatre. Maggie Valentine. Ringling: The Florida Years 1911–1936. David C. Weeks. Liquid Nourishment. Edited by C. Arne Wilson. Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle: A Bio-Bibliography. Robert Young, Jr. History Laid Bare: Love, Sex and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding. Richard Zacks. How I Wrote “Jubilee.” Margaret Walker. Talking Heads: Political Talk Shows and Their Star Pundits. Alan Hirsch. Populur Culture: East and West. Isaac Sequeira.     

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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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Books reviewed:
Martin Bulmer and John Solomos, (eds.) Racism: Oxford Readers
Les Back and John Solomos, Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader
Max Travers, The British Immigration Courts: A Study of Law and Politics
K. Nelson and Joan Smith, Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America     

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Sex in Georgian England. A. D. Harvey. Remembering Main Street: An American Album. Pat Ross. Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia. Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg, eds. Computers, Ethics, and Society. David Ermann, Mary Williams, and Michele Shauf. A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History. Robert C. Doyle. Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Saidiya V. Hartman. An Emotional History of the United States. Peter N. Stearns, Jan Lewis, eds. Encyclopedia of Underwater adn Maritime Archaeology. James P. Delgado, ed. Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth Century America. Peter Karsten. True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. David Mamet. Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers. Richard W. Slatta. Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball. Hank Davis. Earning Their Stripes: The Mobilization of American Children in the Second World War. Robert William Kirk. From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography. Richard R. Ness. Inconspicuous Consumption: An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for granted, from the Everyday to the Obscure. Paul Lukas. Ken Follett: A Critical Companion. Richard Charles Turner     

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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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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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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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Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia. Deborah Oxley. In the Past Lane. Michael Kammen. Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance 1967‐1976. Glenn Man. Popular Culture in England, c. 1500‐1850. Tim Harris, ed. Media and Revolution. Jeremy D. Popkin, ed. Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly. Philip Norman. Into the Jet Age: Conflict and Change in Naval Aviation 1945‐1975. E. T. Wooldridge, ed. Every Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers. Catherine Reid and Holly Iglesias, eds. The Road Ahead. Bill Gates with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson. Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism. David Z. Mindich. The Video McLuhan. Tom Wolfe The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil. Andrew Delbanco. Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group. Paul R. Spickard. The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death 1799‐1883. Gary Laderman. Windy City Wars: Labor, Leisure and Sport in the Making of Chicago. Gerald R. Gems. The Great Raymond. William V. Rauscher. Mexican Cinema/Mexican Woman, 1940‐1950. Joanne Hershfield. Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age. Anthony Aveni. Hammer Films: An Exhaustive Filmography. Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio. Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime Time Shows, 1959 through 1989. Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia. Canadian Film and Video. Film et Video Canadiens: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. Bibliographie Analytique sur le Cinema et la Video. 2 vols. Loren R. Lerner. Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. Krin Gabbard. The Erotic in Sports. Allen Guttmann. Movies and Money. David Puttnam.     

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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.     

Reviews

Robert Brentano, Rome Before Avignon. A Social History of Thirteenth‐Century Rome (1974), xiv+340 (Longman, £5.95).

Margaret Spufford, Contrasting Communities. English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1974), xxiii+374 (Cambridge University Press, £7.70).

Peter Burke, Venice and Amsterdam. A Study of Seventeenth‐Century Elites (1974), 154+8 illustrations (Temple Smith, £2.75).

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed. The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974), xxi+231 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, £5).

Duncan J. MacLeod, Slavery, Race and the American Revolution (1975), vi+249 (Cambridge University Press, £5.50, paperback £2.25).

David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1770–1823 (1975), 576 (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, £9.60).

Edward Shorter and Charles Tilly, Strikes in France 1830–1968 (1974), xxiii+428 (Cambridge University Press, £9.50).

Tom G. Kessinger, Vilyatpur 1848–1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974), xiii+227 (University of California Press, $12.00).

Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette and the Season (1973), 127+44 illustrations (Croom Helm, £3.50).

Joan Wallach Scott, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth‐Century City (1974), xiv+239 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, £5.00).

E. D. Steele, Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant Right and Nationality, 1865–1870 (1974), x+367 (Cambridge University Press, £6.40).

Stefano Merli, Proletariato di Fabbrica e Capitalismo Industriale. Il Caso Italiano: 1880–1900(1973). Vol. I, vi+858; Vol. II, xxxviii+870 (Florence: La Nuova Italia; Vol. I, lire 8000; Vol. II, lire 8000).

Roger Pethybridge, The Social Prelude to Stalinism (1974), 343 (Macmillan, £7.00).     

Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

Sir Leon Radzinowicz and Roger Hood, A History of English Criminal Law, Volume 5: The Emergence of Penal Policy (1986), xv+1101 (Stevens and Sons, £75.00).

George Rude, Criminal and Victim: Crime and Society in Early Nineteenth Century England (1985), 146 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, £17.50).

G. R. Rubin and David Sugarman, Law, Economy and Society: Essays in the History of English Law 1750–1914 (1984), iv+532 (Professional Books, Abingdon, £24.50, paperback £14.50).

Thomas A. Green, Verdict According to Conscience: Perspectives on the English Criminal Trial Jury 1200–1800 (1985), xx+409 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., £32.25).     

Book Reviews

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     

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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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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.     

Abstracts

Conrad Montell Speculations on a Privileged State of Cognitive Dissonance Mervyn Hartwig New Left, New Age, New Paradigm? Roy Bhaskar’s From East to West Thomas Brante Consequences of Realism for Sociological Theory‐Building Fred A. Mael and Blake E. Ashforth Identi?cation in Work, War, Sports, and Religion: Contrasting the Bene?ts and Risks Caroline Susannah Howarth Towards a Social Psychology of Community: a Social Representations Perspective     

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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.     

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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.     

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.     

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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.