Heroes of popular culture.
By: Edited by Ray B. Browne, Marshall Fishwick [and] Michael T. Marsden.
Contributors: Fishwick, Marshall William, joint comp.; Marsden, Michael T., joint comp.
Series: Probings in popular culture
Publisher: Bowling Green University Popular Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Bowling Green, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States; Heroes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fishwick, M. Prologue.; title: Fishwick, M. Heroic style in America.; title: MacFadden, F. The pop pantheon.; title: Coad, B. E. The Alger hero.; title: Piper, H. D. Dick Whittington and the middle class dream of success.; title: Mehlmann, M. Hero of the 30's; title: the tenant farmer.; title: Smith, Jr., L. T. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and the changing image of the athletic hero.; title: O'Connor, G. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?; title: Cummings, R. The Superbowl society.; title: Hopkins, A. Contemporary heroism; title: vitality in defeat.; title: Kane, P. Perry Mason: modern culture hero.; title: McLuhan, M. The popular hero and anti-hero.; title: Rodnitzky, J. A pacifist St. Joan; title: the odyssey of Joan Baez.; title: Lohof, B. The Bacharach phenomenon.; title: Stupple, D. A hero for the times.; title: Stevens, J. The dog as hero.; title: Browne, R. B. Epilogue.