The Unembarrassed Muse: the Popular Arts in America. (Second Printing.).
Author: Russel Blaine Nye
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13:
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Symbiosis
Author: Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780879724405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays, written by experts in their fields, demonstrate how necessary it is in the study of the humanities and social sciences to realize the interdependency of the fields and how rich the resulting study can be.
Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight
Author: Fred Erisman
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780875653303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSetting the stage : technology and the series book -- Birdmen and boys, 1905-1915 -- Aces and combat : World War I and after, 1915-1935 -- Interlude : Charles A. Lindbergh and Atlantic flight, 1927-1929 -- The golden age, I : the Lindbergh progeny, 1927-1939 -- The golden age, II : the air-minded society, 1930-1939 -- World War II and modern aviation, 1939-1945 -- Aftermath : a-bombs, rockets, and space flight, 1945-1950.
American Studies
Author: Jack Salzman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-08-29
Total Pages: 980
ISBN-13: 9780521266871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.
A Concise Companion to American Studies
Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-02-12
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781444319088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety of subjects, from foundations and backgrounds to the field, to different theories of the “new” American Studies, and issues from globalization and technology to transnationalism and post-colonialism Explores the relationship between American Studies and allied fields such as Ethnic Studies, Feminist, Queer and Latin American Studies Designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to contemporary American Studies
Henry L. Brunk and Brunk's Comedians
Author: Jerry L. Martin
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780879722692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTent repertoire theatre as a form of popular entertainment caught on in the late 19th century, had its heyday in the 1920s, and was finished by the Depression and World War II gasoline rationing. The author examines this rise and fall in context of an increasingly urbanized society.
The Botanizers
Author: Elizabeth B. Keeney
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0807862398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKeeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
American Advertising in Poland
Author: Jeffrey K. Johnson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0786452560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines advertising for McDonald's, Levi's, Frito-Lay, and Coca-Cola used in Poland from 1990 to 2007. Case studies reveal a complex relationship between the corporations and Polish society and challenge the assumption that companies force products and ideas into a new market and thus destroy traditions and cultures. Companies instead found that they must adapt to meet Poland's cultural needs and pressures. Against a backdrop of globalization, the book contends, Poles transform and assimilate these outside products into their culture.
Popular Abstracts
Author: Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780879721657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular Abstracts is a reference tool providing access to information appearing in past issues of three journals published by the Bowling Green Popular Press. Abstracts are included for each article appearing in the first ten volumes of The Journal of Popular Culture (1967-1977), the first five volumes of The Journal of Popular Film (1972-1977), and the first four volumes of Popular Music and Society (1971-1975).
What America Read
Author: Gordon Hutner
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0807832278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classic
