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Getting to Know Us an Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture: What Is This Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of? | |
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&U261E: Taking Popular Culture Seriously | |
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Introduction Taking Popular Culture Seriously | |
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Seeing What We've Said: The Top Ten American Box-Office Hits Taken Seriously | |
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How Much Can You Swallow? | |
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New Legends for Old | |
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The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss | |
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Myths | |
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Introduction Songs of the Unseen Road: Myths, Beliefs and Values in Popular Culture | |
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Four Morality Tales | |
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Culture and Continuity: Three American Myths in the Prints of Currier & Ives | |
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The American Myth of Success: Visions and Revisions | |
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Endless Love Will Keep Us Together: The Myth of Romantic Love and Contemporary Popular Movie Love Themes | |
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Introduction Living in the Material World: The Meaning and Power of Popular Icons | |
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For Whom the Bell Tolled | |
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The Malling of America | |
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Seen through Rose-Tinted Glasses the Barbie Doll in American Society | |
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Stereotypes | |
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Introduction Breaking the Mold: The Meaning and Significance of Stereotypes in Popular Culture | |
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The Vals Typology | |
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From the Plantation to Bel-Air: a Brief History of Black Stereotypes | |
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Yellow Devil Doctors and Opium Dens: The Yellow Peril Stereotype in Mass Media Entertainment | |
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Being Beautiful, Thin and Female in America | |
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Heroes | |
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Look! Up in the Sky! (And Right Next Door): Popular Heroes in America | |
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What Makes Superman So Darned American? | |
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Henry Ford: Symbol of an Age | |
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The Rap on Rap | |
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The Wretched of the Hearth: The Undainty Feminism of Roseanne Arnold | |
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Rituals | |
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Introduction All Together Now: Popular Rituals in America | |
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Family Reunion | |
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Game Day U.S.A: The South - Willie Morris the Midwest - Frank Conroy the West - Richard Hoffer | |
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Rite of Season, Rite of Passage | |
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Formulas | |
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Introduction Would You Repeat That-Please!: The Meaningful Delights of Formula in the Popular Arts | |
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The Western | |
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Television Soap Opera: """"Incest, Bigamy, and Fatal Disease"""" | |
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Monster Movies: a Sexual Theory | |
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Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s | |
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Section 8 | |
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Thirteenth Generation Born: 1961-1981 | |