Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Political Cartoons in the 1988 Presidential Campaign
Image, Metaphor, and Narrative
1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2858-2 (Routledge)
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Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports
Heroes, Race, and Gender
This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2907-7 (Routledge)
The Origins and Development of Professional Football, 1890-1920
Evolving from English rugby, American football flourished in two arenas of late 19th-century America: eastern colleges and amateur athletic clubs. Members of both groups opposed… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2797-4 (Routledge)
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America Under Construction
Boundaries and Identities in Popular Culture
This eclectic collection of original essays explores the role of popular culture in the creation of gender, class, regional, national, racial, and institutional identities in… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2841-4 (Routledge)
African American Nationalist Literature of the 1960s
Pens of Fire
Bringing together political theory and literary works, this study recreates the political climate which made the 1960s an unforgettable era for young black Americans. A… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2474-4 (Routledge)
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When the Spirit Says Sing!
The Role of Freedom Songs in the Civil Rights Movement
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, such songs as "We Shall Overcome," "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," and "Do What the Spirit… read more1995 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2164-4 (Routledge)
Teatro Hispano!
Three Major New York Companies
The Hispanic Theater Movement has been contributing to the cultural heritage of the American theater for several decades. This study examines Hispanic Theater in… read more1995 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1986-3 (Routledge)
Lolita in Peyton Place
Highbrow, Middlebrow, and LowBrow Novels of the 1950s
This book analyzes the differences in content, reader expectation, and social/moral/ethical functions of the three types of novels in America of the 1950s. It challenges… read more1995 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2061-6 (Routledge)
At a Theater or Drive-In Near You
The History, Culture and Politics of the American Exploitation Film
Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially… read more1995 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-1951-1 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Media and the Creation of Babe Ruth
By Patrick Adam Trimble
To be published May 1st 2009
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published May 1st 2009
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama
By Megan Sanborn Jones
To be published April 29th 2009
John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation
By Michael Stoneham
To be published April 2nd 2009
Black Women in American Literature of the South
By Sherita L. Johnson
To be published March 15th 2009
Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
By Jaime Osterman Alves
To be published March 4th 2009