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Allen, Robert C. Speaking of Soap Operas. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1985. |
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Excellent study of the production and consumption of daytime
soap operas. |
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Bordo, Susan. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public
and in Private New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. |
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Excellent study of changing images of masculinity in recent
US popular culture. |
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Burston, Paul and Colin Richardson, eds. A Queer Romance:
Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 1995. |
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Good collection of essays on various ways that gays and lesbians
have been represented in and have responded to popular culture.
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Clover, Carrol J. Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the
Modern Horror Film. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. |
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The
title says it all. Ever wonder
why people (maybe even you?) like slasher films? Here’s
a sophisticated set of psycho-social answers. |
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Fregoso, Rose Linda. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano
Film Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. |
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The best study yet of Chicanas as subjects in and creators
of film. |
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Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master’s
House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1998. |
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Brilliant interpretation of a major Chicano art retrospective
that raises key questions about the construction of high art vs.
popular art among marginalized ethno-racialized groups. |
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Jhally, Sut. The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the
Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. |
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Strong
study of how advertising
texts shape racial, gender, and class beliefs and create
a “consumer” consciousness. |
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Kaplan, E. Ann. Rocking Around the Clock: Music Television,
Postmodernism and Consumer Culture. New York: Methuen, 1987. |
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Sophisticated analysis of the relations among MTV videos,
consumer culture, and the psychodynamics of identity formation
in youth. |
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Lewis, Lisa. Gender Politics and MTV. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. |
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Takes an audience-ethnographic approach that sees Madonna
and similar figures as empowering to girls and young women.
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Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American
Popular Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. |
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Innovative study of relations between mass-produced pop culture
and the realities of communal memory dimly present in those
commodified productions. |
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Lutz, Catherine and Jane L. Collins. Reading National Geographic.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. |
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Two visual anthropologists study the racial, gender, and international
politics of this influential journal. |
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Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure
in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia, PN: Temple University Press, 1986. |
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Classic American Studies text, looking at the various forms
of early 20th century pop culture aimed at women from the working
class. |
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Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy
and Popular Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1991. |
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One
of the most often cited “classics” in American
Studies literature, this analysis combines production analysis,
textual analysis and ethnographic audience analysis of the
“romance novel” genre. |
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Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in
Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Published by University Press
of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 1994. |
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Arguably the best book yet on rap, this study analyses both
the political economic cultural roots of rap, and its textual
meanings. |
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Ross, Andrew, Tricia Rose, and Andrew Rose, eds. Microphone
Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994. |
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Excellent collection of essays on rock, rap, heavy metal,
dance scenes, and the youth cultures that surround them. |
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Walters, Suzanna Danuta. All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. |
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An excellent book looking not only at gay
visibility in film but in all forms of media up to its publication in 2001. While this book focuses
primarily on television, it does pick up where Russo (above) left off. |
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Williamson, Judith. Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and
Meaning in Advertising. London: Boyars, 1978. |
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The classic text on how advertisements address and create
their audiences. |
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