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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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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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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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EthniCity: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Change in Modern Cities. Curtis Roseman, Hans Dieter Laux, Gunther Thieme, eds. Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema. Wheeler Winston Dixon. Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness. Carole G. Silver The Victorian Underworld. Donald Thomas. Jazz‐Age Boomtown. Jerry L. Rodnitzky and Shirley R. Rodnitzky. Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process. James Watson. The McDonaldization Thesis. George Ritzer. Generations of Youth: Youth Cultures and History in Twentieth‐Century America. Joe Austin and Michael Willard, eds. Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline. Lucy Maddox, ed. Music and the Silent Film: Contexts & Case Studies 1895–1924. Martin Miller Marks. American Laughter: Immigration, Ethnicity, and 1930s Hollywood Film Comedy. Mark Winokur. Robert Graves and the White Goddess. Richard Perceval Graves. Conversations with Chaim Potok. Daniel Walden. Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities. Batya Weinbaum. Mexican Style Source Book. Susan Tomlinson.     

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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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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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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.     

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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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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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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.     

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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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Women, Creativity and the Arts. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Lucinda Ebersole, eds. American Values: Opposing Viewpoints. Charles P. Cozic, ed. Generation X Goes to College. Peter Sacks. Constructing a Life Philosophy: Opposing Viewpoints. Sixth Edition. David L. Bender, ed. Digging Up Butch & Sundance. Anne Meadows, ed. Old Southern Apples. Creighton Lee Calhoun, Jr. Texan Jazz. Dave Oliphant. Mason & Dixon. Thomas Pynchon. Politics on the Nets: Wiring the Political Process. Wayne Rash, Jr. Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Indusrrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age. Kirkpatrick Sale. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. Clifford Stoll. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. James Brook and Iain A. Boal, editors. Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film. Tony Williams. Tausend Welten: Die Aujloesung der Gesellschaft im digitalen Zeitalter. (A Thousand Worlds: The Dissolution of Society in the Digital Age). Uwe Jean Heuser. Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger. Philip Archand.     

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.