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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Popular culture. Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992 (OCoLC)681431102 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John G Nachbar; Kevin Lausé |
| ISBN: | 0879725710 9780879725716 0879725729 9780879725723 |
| OCLC Number: | 26733666 |
| Description: | 504 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Getting to know us: an introduction to the study of popular culture: what is this stuff that dreams are made of? -- SECTION 1: TAKING POPULAR CULTURE SERIOUSLY: Seeing what we've said; the top American box-office hits taken seriously / Kevin Lause -- How much can you swallow? / Mark Crispin Miller -- New legends for old / Jan Harold Brunvand -- The cabinet of Dr. Seuss / Alison Lurie -- SECTION 2: Songs of the unseen road: myths, beliefs, and values in popular culture -- Four morality tales / Robert Reich -- Culture and continuity: three American myths in the prints of Currier & Ives / Jack Nachbar -- The American myth of success: visions and revisions / Madonna Marsden -- Endless love will keep us together: the myth of romantic love and contemporary popular movie love themes / Crystal Kile --SECTION 3: Living in the material world: the meaning and power of popular icons -- For whom the bell tolled / Phil Patton -- The malling of America / William Severini Kowinski -- "Seen through rose-tinted glasses": the Barbie doll in American society / Marilyn Ferris Motz -- SECTION 4: Breaking the mold: the meaning and significance of stereotypes in popular culture -- The VALS typology / Arnold Mitchell -- From the plantation to Bel-Air: a brief history of Black stereotypes / Christopher D. Geist and Angela M. S. Nelson -- Yellow devil doctors and opium dens: the Yellow Peril stereotyle in mass media entertainment / Gary Hoppenstand -- One size does not fit all: being beautiful, thin and female in America / Jane Caputi with Susan Nance -- Section 5: Look! Up in the sky! (And right next door): popular heroes in America -- What makes Superman so darned American? / Gary Engle -- Henry Ford: symbol of an age / Roderick Nash -- The rap on rap / David Samuels -- The wretched of the hearth: the undainty feminism of Roseanne Arnold / Barbara Ehrenreich -- SECTION 6: All together now: popular rituals in America -- Family reunions / Jean Fields -- Game Day U.S.A. : The South / Willie Morris, The Midwest / Frank Conroy, The West / Richard Hoffer -- Halloween: rite of season, rite of passage / Jack Santino -- SECTION 7: Will you repeat that, please! : the meaningful delights of formula in the popular arts -- The Western / Thomas Schatz -- Television soap opera: "Incest, bigamy, and fatal disease" / Charles Derry -- Monster movies: a sexual theory / Walter Evans -- Magic and transformation: relationships in popular romance novels, 1950 to the 1980s / Rita C. Hubbard -- SECTION 8: Thirteenth generation born: 1961-1981 / William Strauss and Neil Howe. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lausé. |
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