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American Wars and Popular Cult...Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as signific... Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation distortion and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video... more
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American Wars and Popular Cult...Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as signific... Playing at War offers an innovative focus on Civil War video games as significant sites of memory creation distortion and evolution in popular culture. With fifteen essays by historians the collection analyzes the emergence and popularity of video... more
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American Wars and Popular Cult...A New Way of Seeing considers the poetry of five writers--Louis Simpson Keith ... A New Way of Seeing considers the poetry of five writers--Louis Simpson Keith Douglas Richard Hugo Howard Nemerov and Randall Jarrell--whose work draws on their activities as soldiers in World War II. Basing his examination on extensive... more
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Cultural Frames Framing Cultur...Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American s... Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were... more
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Cultural Frames Framing Cultur...Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American s... Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were... more
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Pre-Owned Mission Underway : T...The history of the study of popular culture in American academic since its (re... The history of the study of popular culture in American academic since its (re)introduction in 1967 is filled with misunderstanding and opposition. From the first proponents of the study of this major portion of american culture made clear that they... more
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American Popular Culture Fashi...Providing a convenient and unique look at fashion and costume literature and h... Providing a convenient and unique look at fashion and costume literature and how it has developed historically this volume discusses monographic and reference literature and provides information on periodicals research centers and costume museums... more
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Against Academia: The History ...The history of the study of popular culture in American academia since its (re... The history of the study of popular culture in American academia since its (re)introduction in 1967 is filled with misunderstanding and opposition. From the first proponents of the study of this major portion of American culture made clear that they... more
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American Popular Culture Self-...One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-h... One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture this book focuses on early America from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism. The... more
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American Popular Culture Self-...The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the... The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture this book continues chronologically where the first left off. As with the first volume this work focuses on the intersection of... more
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Combat Death in Contemporary A...Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of... Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely... more
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Combat Death in Contemporary A...This book examines the portrayal of combat and military death in American popu... This book examines the portrayal of combat and military death in American popular culture from the flag-raising on Iwo Jima to the war in Iraq to show how the genres of melodrama adventure and horror shape the way Americans feel about war and its... more
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Pre-Owned Children and Youth i...Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which y... Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior... more
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American Popular Culture Women...This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are ... This book will be useful to those who want to know what reading materials are available on particular topics. Selections have been carefully made and the essays painstakingly summarize the contents of books and articles. Reference Books Bulletin more
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Children and Youth in Popular ...Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which y... Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior... more
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Children and Youth in Popular ...Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which y... Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior... more
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Routledge Advances in Popular ...Tapping into a growing interest in American culture with the occult and new sp... Tapping into a growing interest in American culture with the occult and new spiritualism this book is the first scholarly work devoted entirely to the unique place of Ouija in American culture. more
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American Popular Culture Throu...The Civil War tore America apart. The ensuing era of Reconstruction sewed it b... The Civil War tore America apart. The ensuing era of Reconstruction sewed it back together. In this vivid look at the popular culture of the era Browne and Kreiser examine how Americans coped with the trials and tribulations of this cataclysmic... more
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Williams-Ford Texas A&M Univer...In Selling Air Power Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the ... In Selling Air Power Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s hardly a month went by without at least... more
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Occupational Safety and Health...Spanning more than 400 years of America s past this book brings together for t... Spanning more than 400 years of America s past this book brings together for the first time entries on the ways Americans have mythologized both the many wars the nation has fought and the men and women connected with those conflicts. Focusing on... more
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