基本説明
A solid foundation in each subject area, as well as comprehensive information for further research.
Full 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.
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
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. FerRE 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
