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The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture [4 volumes]
M. Thomas Inge, ed., Dennis Hall
ISBN: 0-313-30878-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30878-9
2368 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 11/30/2002
List Price: $479.95 (UK Sterling Price: £331.95)
Discount Price: $239.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
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  • PSLA YA Top Forty Reference 2002 Titles
Description: Serious study of popular culture is a fairly recent development, yet scholars in nearly all disciplines now engage with the material culture of the masses. The breadth and depth of coverage in this unique multivolume work make it the most useful reference of its kind currently available. Each essay-length chapter covers a single form, genre, or theme of popular culture, such as comic books, computers, fashion, film, magazines, best-selling books, radio, sports, or TV.

Readers and researchers will gain a solid foundation in each subject area, as well as comprehensive information for further research, guided by noted scholars from throughout the country. Title Features:
  • Abundant illustrations and photo essays
  • A chronological survey of each topic's history
  • A critical essay examining relevant reference tools, bibliographies, histories, critical studies, and journals
  • A description of research centers, accessible collections, and primary and secondary research materials
  • A comprehensive index
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction
    The Study of Popular Culture by Michael Dunne
    Almanacs by Robert K. Dodge
    Amusement Parks and Fairs by Judith A. Adams-Volpe
    Animation by Maureen Furniss
    Architecture by Richard Guy Wilson and Dale Allen Gyure
    The Automobile by William R. Klink, Michael L. Berger, and Maurice Duke
    Big Little Books by Ray Barfield
    Business by David A. Brat and Richard F. Welch
    Catalogs by Evelyn Beck
    Children's Literature by R. Gordan Kelly and Lucy Rollin
    Circus and Wild West Exhibition by Judith A. Adams-Volpe
    Comic Books by M. Thomas Inge
    Comic Strips by M. Thomas Inge
    Computers and the Digital Age by Ray Helton
    Dance by Loretta Carillo
    Death by John P. Ferré
    Debate and Public Address by Robert H. Janke and Theodore F. Sheckels
    Do-It-Yourself, Home Repair, and Remodeling by Elizabeth S. Bell
    Editorial Cartoons by Paul P. Somers, Jr.
    Ethnicity by Leslie W. Lewis
    Fantasy by Roger C. Schlobin
    Fashion by Patricia A. Cunningham and Joseph Hancock
    Film by Robert P. Holtzclaw and Robert A. Armour
    Foodways by Sara Lewis Dunne
    Games and Toys by Bernard Mergan
    Gardening by Patsy Hammontree
    Gothic Fiction by Douglass H. Thompson
    Graffiti by Lisa N. Howorth and Sarah L. Croy
    Housing by Benyamin Schwarz and Ruth Brent
    Illustration by James J. Best
    Jazz by William Kenney and Jeffery Wasick
    Leisure Vehicles, Pleasure Boats, and Aircraft by Bernard Mergen
    Living History and Battlefield Reenactments by Randal Allred
    Magazines by Dorothy S. Schmidt
    Magic and Magicians by Steven S. Tigner
    Medicine and Physicians by Anne Hudson Jones
    Museums and Collecting by Dennis Hall
    Music by George Plasketes
    New Age Movements by Joel D. Rudinger
    Newspapers by Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Amy Kirste Nyberg, and Richard Schwerzlose
    Photography by Richard N. Mastellar
    Popular Literature and Bestsellers by Perry Frank and Suzanne Ellery Greene
    Pornography by Joseph W. Slade
    Propaganda by Richard Alan Nelson
    Pulps and Dime Novels by Bill Blackbeard
    Radio by Erica Scharrer and Thomas Greenfield
    Recording Industry by James A. Von Schilling
    Regionalism by Anne Rowe
    Romantic Fiction by Kay Mussell
    Science by George F. Spagna Jr. and Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney
    Science Fiction by Donald E. Palumbo
    Self-Help and Popular Religion by David Fillingim
    Sports by Robert J. Higgs and Ralph Lamar Turner
    Stamp, Coin, and Postcard Collecting by John E. Findling and John Bryant
    Television by Rhonda Wilcox
    Trains and Railroading by Arthur H. Miller, Jr.
    Verse and Popular Poetry by Janice Radway and Perry Frank
    Westerns by Richard W. Etulian
    Young Adult Fiction by Ken Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen
    Index
About the Author: M. THOMAS INGE is the Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of English and Humanities at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where he teaches courses in American culture, film, humor, animation, and literature. He was the editor of the first two editions of the Handbook of American Popular Culture (Greenwood Press). More recent publications include Comics as 2~lture, William Faulkner: The Contemporary Reviews, Conversations with William Faulkner, and Charles M. Schulz: Conversations. His essays have appeared in such publications as PMLA, American Literature, Faulkner Journal, Studies in American Humor, and World Literature Review.

DENNIS HALL is Professor of English at the University of Louisville, where he teaches such subjects as History of Rhetoric, British Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Literature. A former editor of Studies in Popular Culture, he has written on topics including dietary supplements, backyard gardens, Civil War reenactments, museums, and Samuel Johnson.
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