The Greenwood guide to American popular culture (Greenwood Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references and index
v. 1. Almanacs through Do-it-yourself -- v. 2. Editorial cartoons through Illustration -- v. 3. Jazz through Propaganda -- v. 4. Pulps and dime novels through Young adult fiction
Introduction / M. Thomas Inge -- The study of popular culture / Michael Dunne -- Almanacs / Robert K. Dodge -- Amusement parks and fairs / Judith A. Adams-Volpe -- Animation / Maureen Furniss -- Architecture / Richard Guy Wilson and Dale Allen Gyure -- The automobile / William R. Klink, Michael L. Berger, and Maurice Duke -- Big little books / Ray Barfield -- Business / David A. Brat and Richard F. Welch -- Catalogs / Evelyn Beck -- Children's literature / R. Gordon Kelly and Lucy Rollin -- Circus and wild west exhibition / Judith A. Adams-Volpe -- Comic books / M. Thomas Inge -- Comic strips / M. Thomas Inge -- Computers and the digital age / Ray Helton -- Dance / Loretta Carrillo -- Death / John P. Ferre -- Debate and public address / Robert H. Janke and Theodore F. Sheckels -- Do-it-yourself, home repair, and remodeling / Elizabeth S. Bell -- Editorial cartoons / Paul Somers -- Ethnic minorities / Leslie Lewis -- Fantasy / Roger Schlobin --
Fashion / Patricia A. Cunningham and Joseph Hancock -- Film / Robert P. Holtzclaw and Robert A. Armour -- Foodways / Sara Lewis Dunne -- Games and toys / Bernard Mergen -- Gardening / Patsy Hammontree -- Gothic fiction / Douglass H. Thompson -- Graffiti / Lisa N. Howorth and Sarah L. Croy -- Housing / Benyamin Schwarz and Ruth Brent -- Illustration / James J. Best -- Jazz / William Kenney and Jeffery Wasick -- Leisure vehicles, pleasure boats, and aircraft / Bernard Mergen -- Living history and battlefield reenactments / Randal Allred -- Magazines / Dorothy S. Schmidt -- Magic and magicians / Steven S. Tigner -- Medicine and physicians / Anne Hudson Jones -- Museums and collecting / Dennis Hall -- Music / George Plasketes -- New Age movements / Joel D. Rudinger -- Newspapers / Agnes Hooper Gottlieb, Amy Kiste Nyberg, and Richard Schwarzlose -- Photography / Richard N. Masteller -- Popular literature and best sellers / Perry Frank and Suzanne Ellery Greene --
Pornography / Joseph W. Slade -- Propaganda / Richard Alan Nelson -- Pulps and dime novels / Bill Blackbeard -- Radio / Erica Scharrer and Thomas Greenfield -- Recording industry / James A. Von Schilling -- Regionalism / Anne Rowe -- Romance fiction / Kay Mussell -- Science / George F. Spagna jr. and Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney -- Science fiction / Donald E. Palumbo -- Self-help and popular religion / David Fillingim -- Sports / Robert J. Higgs and Ralph Lamar Turner -- Stamp, coin, and postcard collecting / John E. Findling and John Bryant -- Television / Rhonda Wilcox -- Trains and railroading / Arthur H. Miller, Jr. -- Verse and popular poetry / Perry Frank and Janice Radway -- Westerns / Richard W. Etulain -- Young adult fiction / Ken Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilsen