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Books reviewed in this article: Peter Hanson, The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study Keith Scott, The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Richard K. Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund (eds.), Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream Frederick Matthew Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation Reuben Ellis, Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and the Landscapes of Neoimperialism McKay Jenkins, The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar, and Daniel J. Kevles, Inventing America: A History of the United States Clifford Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920 Irene Kacandes, Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion Nikolas Schreck, The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema     

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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.     

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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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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 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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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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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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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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DECIDING WHAT'S NEWS: A STUDY OF CBS EVENING NEWS, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, NEWSWEEK AND TIME . By Herbert J. Gans. THE JOHN WAYNE STORY . By Geroge Carpozi, Jr. HANK WILLIAMS: COUNTRY MUSIC'S TRAGIC KING . By Jay Caress. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SPORT . By Eldon E. Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer. THE SEVENTIES: COUNTERFEIT DECADE . By Herbert London. THE CARTOON CONNECTION: THE ART OF PICTORIAL HUMOUR AS SEEN BY WILLIAM HEWISON . THE BLACK TOWNS . By Normal L. Crockett. IN THE LIFE OF A ROMANY GYPSY . By Manfri Frederick Wood. FANTASTIC WORLDS: MYTHS, TALES, AND STORIES . Edited by Eric S. Rabkin. COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIME TIME NETWORK TV SHOWS: 1946 TO PRESENT . By Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh. AUTOMOBILE AGE ATLANTA: THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN METROPOLIS . By Harward L. Preston. BUFFO: THE GENIUS OF VULGAR HUMOR . By Anthony Capulti. THE VICTORIAN THEATRE: 1792–1914 . By Geroge Rowell. RADIO COMEDY . By Arthur Frank Wertheim. SNAKES & LADDERS . By Dirk Bogarde. THE MOVIE BRATS–HOW THE FILM GENERATION TOOK OVER HOLLYWOOD . By Michael Pye and Lynda Myles. TV: FRIEND OR FOE: A PARENT'S HANDBOOK . By Paul Borgman. FEMALE COMPLAINTS: LYDIA PINKHAM AND THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE . By Sarah Stage. THE RISE OF THE VICTORIAN ACTOR . By Michael Baker. A NEW MYTHOS: THE NOVEL OF THE ARTIST AS HEROINE 1877–1977 . By Grace Stewart.     

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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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Books reviewed: Delas, Jean‐Jacques; Jacquet, MaïtéLe guide de la retraite 2001 Viossat, Louis‐Charles. Les retraites: enjeux, crise, solutions Börsch‐Supan, Axel; Miegel, Meinhard (eds.). Pension reform in six countries: What can we learn from each other? Minns, Richard. The cold war in welfare: Stock markets versus pensions Charlton, Roger; McKinnon, Roddy (eds.) Pensions in development Hange, Ulrich. Umlagefinanzierte Alterssicherung, Land und Migration Herfeld, Anna‐Maria. Reformansätze zur Alterssicherung in Deutschland und intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit Belin, Bernard (ed.) Les personnes handicapées vieillissantes Robison, Janice (ed.) Towards a new social compact for care in old age Chiva, Anthony; Stears, David (eds.) Promoting the health of older people: The next step in health generation Kocher, Gerhard; Oggier, Willy (eds.) Système de santé suisse 2001/2002: survol de la situation actuelle Zhou, Huizhong (ed.) The political economy of health care reforms Scott, Claudia. Public and private roles in health care systems: Reform experience in seven OECD countries Harrison, Anthony. Making the right connections: The design and management of health care delivery Barr, Nicholas (ed.).Economic theory and the welfare state: Vol. 1: Theory. Vol. 2: Income transfers. Vol. 3: Benefits in kind Schmähl, Winfried (ed.).Soziale Sicherung zwischen Markt und Staat Baumol, William; Wilson, Charles A. (eds.). Welfare economics Widmer, Dieter. Die Sozialversicherung in der Schweiz Simon, Silvia. Umverteilung in der Sozialversicherung Fragnière, Jean‐Pierre.Politiques socials pour le XXI^e siècle Kennett, Patricia. Comparative social policy: Theory and research France. Cour des Comptes. La sécurité sociale Watson Wyatt Worldwide (Brussels).Benefits report: Western Europe, USA and Canada, 2001 Chow, Nelson W. S. Socialist welfare with Chinese characteristics: The reform of the social security system in China Vielle, Pascale. La sécurité sociale et le coût indirect des responsabilités familiales France. Ministère de l’emploi et de la solidarityé.Plan national d’action français contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion sociale Ballet, Jérôme.L’exclusion: définitions et mécanismes Boissonnat, Jean. La fin du chômage? Hill, Michael (ed.). Income maintenance policy Turner, John A. (ed.). Pay at risk: Compensation and employment risk in the United States and Canada De Koning, Jaap; Mosley, Hugh (eds.).Labour market policy and unemployment: Impact and process evaluations in elected European countries     

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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.