The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture

by Inge, M. Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780313308789
• ISBN10: 0313308780
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

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. Features include: BLAbundant illustrations BLPhoto essays BLA chronological survey of each topic's history BLA critical essay examining relevant reference tools, bibliographies, histories, critical studies, and journals BLA description of research centers, accessible collections, and primary and secondary research materials BLA comprehensive index 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.

Author Biography

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 Culture, 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
M. Thomas Inge
The Study of Popular Culture	xxvii
Michael Dunne
Almanacs	1	(16)
Robert K. Dodge
Amusement Parks and Fairs	17	(38)
Judith A. Adams-Volpe
Animation	55	(32)
Maureen Furniss
Architecture	87	(30)
Richard Guy Wilson
Dale Allen Gyure
The Automobile	117	(28)
William R. Klink
Michael L. Berger
Maurice Duke
Big Little Books	145	(18)
Ray Barfield
Business	163	(28)
David A. Brat
Richard F. Welch
Catalogs	191	(22)
Evelyn Beck
Children's Literature	213	(30)
R. Gordon Kelly
Lucy Rollin
Circus and Wild West Exhibition	243	(32)
Judith A. Adams-Volpe
Comic Books	275	(32)
M. Thomas Inge
Comic Strips	307	(32)
M. Thomas Inge
Computers and the Digital Age	339	(30)
Ray Helton
Dance	369	(22)
Loretta Carrillo
Death	391	(20)
John P. Ferre
Debate and Public Address	411	(54)
Robert H. Janke
Theodore F. Sheckels
Do-It-Yourself, Home Repair, and Remodeling	465	(26)
Elizabeth S. Bell
Editorial Cartoons	491	(58)
Paul Somers
Ethnic Minorities	549	(28)
Leslie Lewis
Fantasy	577	(28)
Roger Schlobin
Fashion	605	(44)
Patricia A. Cunningham
Joseph Hancock
Film	649	(40)
Robert P. Holtzclaw
Robert A. Armour
Foodways	689	(24)
Sara Lewis Dunne
Games and Toys	713	(30)
Bernard Mergen
Gardening	743	(36)
Patsy Hammontree
Gothic Fiction	779	(30)
Douglass H. Thompson
Graffiti	809	(16)
Lisa N. Howorth
Sarah L. Croy
Housing	825	(58)
Benyamin Schwarz
Ruth Brent
Illustration	883	(24)
James J. Best
Jazz	907	(24)
William Kenney
Jeffery Wasick
Leisure Vehicles, Pleasure Boats, and Aircraft	931	(26)
Bernard Mergen
Living History and Battlefield Reenactments	957	(32)
Randal Allred
Magazines	989	(30)
Dorothy S. Schmidt
Magic and Magicians	1019	(48)
Steven S. Tigner
Medicine and Physicians	1067	(22)
Anne Hudson Jones
Museums and Collecting	1089	(24)
Dennis Hall
Music	1113	(32)
George Plasketes
New Age Movements	1145	(18)
Joel D. Rudinger
Newspapers	1163	(36)
Agnes Hooper Gottlieb
Amy Kiste Nyberg
Richard Schwarzlose
Photography	1199	(40)
Richard N. Masteller
Popular Literature and Best Sellers	1239	(38)
Perry Frank
Suzanne Ellery Greene
Pornography	1277	(50)
Joseph W. Slade
Propaganda	1327	(106)
Richard Alan Nelson
Pulps and Dime Novels	1433	(32)
Bill Blackbeard
Radio	1465	(38)
Erica Scharrer
Thomas Greenfield
Recording Industry	1503	(36)
James A. Von Schilling
Regionalism	1539	(20)
Anne Rowe
Romance Fiction	1559	(42)
Kay Mussell
Science	1601	(32)
George F. Spagna Jr.
Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney
Science Fiction	1633	(32)
Donald E. Palumbo
Self-Help and Popular Religion	1665	(34)
David Fillingim
Sports	1699	(22)
Robert J. Higgs
Ralph Lamar Turner
Stamp, Coin, and Postcard Collecting	1721	(34)
John E. Findling
John Bryant
Television	1755	(42)
Rhonda Wilcox
Trains and Railroading	1797	(20)
Arthur H. Miller, Jr.
Verse and Popular Poetry	1817	(26)
Perry Frank
Janice Radway
Westerns	1843	(26)
Richard W. Etulain
Young Adult Fiction	1869	(26)
Ken Donelson
Alleen Pace Nilsen
Index	1895	(252)
About the Contributors	2147