Things in the driver's seat
Subtitle: readings in popular culture.
Series: Rand McNally history of American thought and culture series
Publisher: Rand McNally
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States.
Table of contents: title: Cronin, M. Currier and Ives: a content analysis.; title: Wolfe, B. Uncle Remus and the malevolent rabbit.; title: Littlefield, H. M. The Wizard of Oz: parable on populism.; title: Voigt, D. Q. America's manufactured villain; title: the baseball umpire.; title: Melder, F. E. The "Tin Lizzie's" golden anniversary.; title: Thurber, J. Wild Bird Hickok and his friends.; title: Young, W. H., Jr. The serious funnies: adventure comics during the depression, 1929-1938.; title: Warshow, R. The gangster as tragic hero.; title: Thurber, J. Food fun for the menfolk.; title: Harmon, J. Who knows what evil lurks.; title: Sorrentino, G. Remembrances of bop in New York, 1945-1950.; title: Junker, H. As they used to say in the 1950's.; title: La Farge, C. Mickey Spillane and his bloody hammer.; title: Morin, E. The case of James Dean.; title: Hopkins, J. The fans.; title: Stone, G. P. Halloween and the mass child.; title: Fox, J. R. Pueblo baseball: a new use of old witchcraft.; title: McMurtry, L. Here's Hud in your eye.; title: Bongartz, R. Remember bomb shelters?; title: Sonenschein, D. Love and sex in romance magazines.; title: Rembsberg, C. and B. Come alive, America.; title: Brunvand, J. H. As the saints go marching by: modern jokelore concerning Mormons.; title: Dessner, L. J. "Woodstock," a nation at war.; title: Sontag, S. The imagination of disaster.; title: References (bibliographical: p. 267-270)