Studies in Popular Culture, 31.2 (Spring 2009)

STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE

Spring 2009 | 31.2 [go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

Table of Contents

v From the Editor: Popular Culture's "Material and Conceptual Conditions

1 Fast Food Frontiers: I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore

Minjoo Oh

23 Sexed Appeals: Network Marketing and Adult Home Novelty Parties

Dawn Heinecken

45 Popularizing HIgh Culture: Zemeckis's Beowulf

Kathleen Forni

61 Fear and Loathing in Knoxvegas: Representations of the "Other" in the Official Press Before and During the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair

Stephen Bales and Charlie Gee

81 Paul Reveres of Early Radio: The Boy Scouts and the Origin of Broadcasting

Noah Arceneaux

101 The Legend of Sacco and Vanzetti: Keeping the Story Alive on the Political Left in Literature, Song, and Film

Ron Briley

123 Tamenicia or Tammy; James or Jim Bob; Bessie or Heather: Patterns and Significance of Choosing Names for American Babies

Claude J. Smith, Jr.

137 Book Reviews