Contents
Preview 000
Ray B. Browne
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The Generalities of Cultures 000
Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne
Myths
Hero with 2000 Faces 000
Ray B. Browne
The Real Life Adventures of Pinocchio 000
Rebecca West
Heroes and Heroines
NASCAR Racing Fans: Cranking Up an Empirical Approach 000
M. Graham Spann
The Concept of Hero against Democracy 000
Ray B. Browne
Icons
Just the Right Touch: By Introducing a Note of Modesty, Marilyn Monroe's Gloves
Actually Heightened Her Come-Hither Allure 000
David H. Shayt
Honky-Tonk Poet: Fifty Years after His Death at Twenty-nine, the Music World Still
Marvels at Hank Williams's Homespun Hits 000
Geoff Boucher
Measuring Up: Obesity in Young Boys Is on the Rise and So Are Eating Disorders,
Whose Fault Is That? Try G.I. Joe 000
Amy Dickinson
Ferrari's Latest Toy Goes for a Cool $675,000 000
Dan Neil
The Masks of Mickey Mouse: Symbol of a Generation 000
Robert W. Brockway
Preoccupation with Childhood
From Control to Adaptation: America's Toy Story 000
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Stereotypes
Have You Been Injured? The Current State of Personal Injury Lawyers' Advertising 000
Peyton Paxson
Days of Our Lives 000
Soap Opera Digest
Formula
Dick Francis's Six-Gun Mystique 000
Rachel Schaffer
Rites and Rituals
Religious Fervor Is Building for Pro-Football Fans: Pageantry, Ritual of Big Game
Have Spiritual Tone, Experts Say 000
Judy Tarjanji
Forgotten Cemeteries Unearth Buried Treasures 000
Liz Sidoti
Descendants of Ohio's Earliest People Fight to Save Mounds 000
Liz Sidoti
Home and Environment
When Half as Big Is More than Enough 000
Barbara Stith
Youth, Age, and Children
A New Battle over Day Care 000
Barbara Kantrowitz
Oh Dad Poor Dad, Your Daughter Has Looked in Your Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad:
Daughters Dissing Daddy in the Memoir 000
Roger Neustadter
Nostalgia
Don't Let Your Childhood Die 000
Erik Dunham
What to Do with the Old People?
After a Full Life, at Seventy-five, One's Duty Is to Die? 000
Thomas Sowell
Fashions and Fads
Delight in Disorder: A Reading of Diaphany and Liquefaction in Contemporary
Women's Clothing 000
Dennis Hall
Beyond the Quilting Bee 000
Dirk Johnson
Fashion
Shakin' All Over 000
Michele Orecklin
Foods
Inside the Food Labs 000
Jeffrey Kluger
Selling Em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food 000
David Gerard Hogan
Personal Appearance
Outside-In: Body, Mind, and Self in the Advertisement of Aesthetic Surgery 000
Deborah Caslav Covino
Cultural Exchange
The Vanishing Global Village 000
Ray B. Browne
Air Travel
Luggage-Transport Service Expects Growth 000
Edward Iwata
Sightseeing and Vacationing
Troubled Waters 000
Ken Alpine
The Wonderful World of History: Why Travel without Heritage Is like TV without
Color 000
David A. Frysell
Museums
In Virtual Museums, an Archive of the World 000
James Gorman
Popular Art
Defining Trade Characters and Their Role in American Popular Culture 000
Barbara J. Phillips
Celebrations
The Freedom of Equality 000
New York Times 000
Celebrations: Rituals of Popular Veneration 000
James Combs
Buckeyes Bask in Glory: OSU's National Title Is for the Ages-Past, Present, and
Future 000
Bruce Hooley
Popular Literature
Dead Men Walking Free 000
Terry McCarthy
The Killer inside Me: He's a Murderer. And a Model Inmate. Should Wilbert Rideau Go
Free? 000
Seth Mnookin
Rewriting the Romance: Bodice Rippers Are More Popular than Ever, and Julia Quinn
Is Taking Them into the Postfeminist Future 000
Lev Grossman
Comic Book Fandom and Cultural Capital 000
Jeffrey A. Brown
Science Fiction Films of the Eighties: Fin de Siècle before Its Time 000
John Beard
Music
The Garage Door Opens 000
Christopher John Farley
Alan Jackson, a Man among Legends: Singer Says "No way," but Others Say He's One
of Country's All-time Best 000
Brian Mansfield
The Importance of Hip-Hop and Rap: A Question of Resistive Vernaculars 000
Roger Conway
Television, Radio, and Newspapers
Number of Religious Broadcasters Continues to Grow 000
Gustave Niebuhr
Protect Religious Freedom 000
Keith J. Powell
Strong, Funny . . . and Female: Prime-time TV Has Focused on Women 000
Elaine Liner
World of Movies
Mild about "Harry" 000
David Ansen
Survey of Year's Popular Entertainment
The Big Fat Year in Culture 000
James Poniewozik
Advertising: The Soft and the Hard Sell
There's No Escape from Ads, Even in the Backseat 000
Lenore Skenazy
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General Look at Popular Culture Studies Backward and Forward 000
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