Popular Culture: Bibliography Books: James Agee, Agee on Film

James Agee, Agee on Film.

Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism.

J.J.C Andrews, The Well-Built Elephant and Other Roadside Attractions: a Tribute to American Eccentricity.

Erik Barnouw, Mass Communication: Television, Radio, Film, Press. The Media

and their Practice in the United States of America.

Robert C. Allen, Speaking of Soap Operas.

Warren J. Belasco, Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945.

Gary Dean Best, The Nickle and Dime Decade: American Popular Culture During the 1930s

Carl N. Bode, The Anatomy of American Popular Culture: 1840-1861.

Linda Keller Brown and Kay Mussell, eds., Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity.

Charles J. Correll, All about Amos 'n' Andy and their creators Correll and

Gosden.

Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are.

Patrick Ely, The Adventures of Amos n’ Andy.

Ken Emerson, Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture.

Stewart Ewen, All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture.

Steward and Elizbeth Ewen, Channels of Desire.

John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture.

David Glassberg, American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century.

Abel Green and Joe Laurie, Jr., Showbiz: From Vaude to Video.

Ian Gordon, Comic Strips and Consumer Culture 1890-1945.

James Guimond, American Photography and the American Dream.

Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1875.

William M. Hammel, The Popular Arts in America: A Reader.

Jim Harmon, The Great Radio Heroes.

Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut, The Great Movie Serials: Their Sound and Fury.

Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of Pl T. Barnum.

Mary Jane Higby, Tune in Tommorrow.

LaVahn G. Hoh and William H. Rough, Step Right Up! The Adventure of Circus in America.

Michele Holmes, Radio Voices: American Broadcasting `1922-1952.

Daniel Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940.

Glenwood Irons, ed., Gender, Language and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative.

John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century.

Chester H. Liebs, Mainstreet to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture.

George Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture.

Robert S. Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture.

J. Fred MacDonald, Don’t Touch That Dial: Radio Programming in American Life 1920-1960.

Brooks McNamara, Day of Jubilee: The Great Age of Public Celebrations in New York 1788-1909.

Brooks McNamara, Step Right Up: The Medicine Show in America.

Mark Crispin Miller, Boxed In: The Culture of TV.

Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women.

Carol Moog, Are they Selling Her Lips?: Advertising and Identity.

Theodore Morrison, Chataqua: A center for Education, Religion, and the Arts in America.

David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements.

Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Amusements in Turn of the Century New York.

Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio.

Russell B. Nye, The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America.

Waverly Root and Richard de Rougemont, Eating in America: A History

Roy Rozensweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920.

Gilbert Seldes, The Public Arts.

Gilbert Seldes, The Seven Lively Arts.

Christopher Shaw and Malcolm Chase, eds., The Imagined Past: History and Nostalgia.

Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio The Commercialization of American Broadcasting 1920-1934.

John Storey, An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.

Robert C. Toll, On with the Show: The First Century of Show Business in America.

Robert C. Toll, Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in 19^th Century America.

John Storey, And Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.

,Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture.

Raymond William Stedman, The Serials: Suspense and Drama by Installment.

Jack Sullivan, The Signs of Our Times.

Warren Susman, ed., Culture and Commitment: 1925-1945.

Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Matthew Brady to Walker Evans.

Robert Warshow, The Immediate Experience.

Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980.

David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.

X Margaret McFadden, “America’s Boyfriend Who Can’t Get a Date: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932-1945,” Journal of American History, v. 80, June 1993, pp. 113-24.

Chester H. Liebs, “From Main Street to Miracle Mile,” in From Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture, pp. 3-37.

Erik Barnouw, “The History of Mass Communication,” from Mass Communication: Television, Radio, Film, Press, pp. 3-47.
X Robert C. Toll, “Social Commentary in Late 19^th Century White Minstrelsy,” Blacking Up, pp. 160-194.
X Umberto Eco, Narrative Structures in Fleming, from Glenwood Irons, ed., Gender, Language and Myth, pp. 157-182.
X Jane Tompkins, “West of Everything,” South Atlantic Quarterly, 86, #3.
Marcus Klein, “The Westerner,: Origins of the Myth,” from Irons, ed., Gender, Language and Myth, pp. 65-82.
X Bluford Adams, “A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires”: The Barnum Hippodromes and Circuses” and “Conclusion: “A Transient Disease”; Barnumism at the World’s Columbian Exposition., pp. 164-192, 193-196.
Jay Mechling, "Newell's Paradox Redux" from Tad Tuleja, ed., Usable Pasts, pp. 140-155. (on Popular Culture and Boy Scouts appropriation of it)
Eric Eliason, "Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression," Tuleja, ed., Usable Pasts, pp. 175-211.
X James Guimond, "The Signs of Hard Times," (pp. 99-148), from American Photography and

the American Dream.

Power of Political Art, pp. 137-180.

Ibid, Comic Strips, National Culture, and Marketing, pp. 37-58.

Ibid., The Comic Book, pp. 128-157.
X Warren Susman, from Culture and Commitment, 1) James Thurber, The Soap Opera, pp. 151-169
Rosalind Williams, The Dream World of Mass Consumption in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, eds., Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, pp. 198-235.
Tillie Olsen, "Tell me a Riddle," from Tell Me a Riddle, pp. 93-156.

James T. Farrell, "Studs" in Chicago Stories, pp. 64-70, "All Things are Nothing to Me" pp. 86-98, "For White Men Only," pp. 99-105.

Herbert Agar, "Culture Versus Colnialism in America, The Southern Review, July 1935, pp. 1-10
X Ronald Berman, Soaps Day and Night, from How Television sees its Audience: A

Look at the Looking Glass.

X Robert C. Toll, On with the Show: The First Century of Show Business in America:

Plays for the People, pp. 141-170, The Evolution of Musical Comedy, pp. 171-206, The Vaudeville Show, 265-293.

WebSites:

University of Iowa Cultural Studies Resources

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920

Stereographs:

Mark Twain on Stage: http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/onstage/onstgehp.html

"The Morals Lecture": http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/onstage/world.html

GROW'D AGAIN: ARTICULATION AND THE HISTORY OF TOPSY in UTC http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/index2f.html