Popular Culture: An Introductory TextJohn G. Nachbar, Kevin Lausé Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity. |
Contents
Taking Popular Culture Seriously | 37 |
How Much Can You Swallow? | 55 |
The Cabinet of Dr Seuss | 68 |
Robert Reich | 110 |
Three American | 121 |
For Whom the Bell Tolled | 186 |
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