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The Popular Press—the leading publisher of books on popular culture, throughout America and worldwide—was acquired by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. The Popular Press is now an imprint under the University of Wisconsin Press banner, publishing books on all aspects of mass culture, both present and past. Backlist titles from the Popular Press are available.

Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne, founders and longtime directors of Popular Press, have promoted and encouraged the scholarly study of popular culture through their efforts at the Popular Press, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Popular Culture Association, and the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

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American Nightmares
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American Nightmares
The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction
Dale Bailey
Fall 2012

Blues of a Lifetime
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Blues of a Lifetime
The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich
Edited by Mark T. Bassett
Fall 2012

America’s Favorite Radio Station
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America’s Favorite Radio Station
WKRP in Cincinnati
Michael B. Kassel
Fall 2012

Profiles of Popular Culture
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Profiles of Popular Culture
A Reader
Edited by Ray B. Browne
Spring 2005

Popular Culture Theory and Methodology
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Popular Culture Theory and Methodology
A Basic Introduction
Edited by Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz and Angela M. S. Nelson
Spring 2005

Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives
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Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives
Edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson
Spring 2005

Dissecting Stephen King
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Dissecting Stephen King
From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism
Heidi Strengell
Spring 2005

King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West
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King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Raymond E. White
Spring 2005

Popular Witchcraft
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Popular Witchcraft
Straight from the Witch’s Mouth
Jack Fritscher
Fall 2004

Walking Shadows
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Walking Shadows
Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane
John Evangelist Walsh
Fall 2004

Murder on the Reservation
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Murder on the Reservation
American Indian Crime Fiction
Ray B. Browne
Spring 2004

Goddesses and Monsters
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Goddesses and Monsters
Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
Jane Caputi
Spring 2004

Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture
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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture
John G. Cawelti
Spring 2004

Images of the Corpse
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Images of the Corpse
From the Renaissance to Cyberspace
Edited by Elizabeth Klaver
Spring 2004

Spectral America
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Spectral America
Phantoms and the National Imagination
Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Spring 2004

Baseball and Country Music
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Baseball and Country Music
Don Cusic
Fall 2003

The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature
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The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature
Brian J. Frost
Fall 2003

GenXegesis
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GenXegesis
Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture
Edited by John M. Ulrich and Andrea L. Harris
Fall 2003

Mission Underway
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Mission Underway
The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967–2001
Edited, Revised, and Updated by Ray B. Browne
2002

The Guide to United States Popular Culture
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The Guide to United States Popular Culture
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne
2001

Ordinary Reactions To Extraordinary Events
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Ordinary Reactions To Extraordinary Events
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Arthur G. Neal
2001

Memory and Representation
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Memory and Representation
Constructed Truths and Competing Realities
Edited by Dena Elisabeth Eber and Arthur G. Neal
2001

Sundae Best
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Sundae Best
A History of Soda Fountains
Anne Cooper Funderburg
2001

Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest
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Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest
Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands
Edited by Steve Glassman and Maurice O’Sullivan
2001

I Was a Cold War Monster
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I Was a Cold War Monster
Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination
Cyndy Hendershot
2001

As American as Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie
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As American as Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie
Constructing Community in Contemporary American Horror Fiction
Linda J. Holland-Toll
2001

Beatrice of Bayou Têche
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Beatrice of Bayou Têche
Alice Ilgenfritz Jones, Introduction by Thomas H. Fick and Eva Gold
2001

Anatomy of Murder
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Anatomy of Murder
Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction
Carl D. Malmgren
2001

A Passion for Consumption
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A Passion for Consumption
The Gothic Novel in America
Anna Sonser
2001

Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture
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Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture
Edited by Michael T. Carroll and Eddie Tafoya
2000

The Mystery of Mysteries
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The Mystery of Mysteries
Cultural Differences and Designs
Samuel Coale
2000

Performing Television
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Performing Television
Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture
Elizabeth Klaver
2000

Rereading the Revolution
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Rereading the Revolution
The Turn-of-the-Century American Revolutionary War Novel
Benjamin S. Lawson
2000

New Hard-Boiled Writers
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New Hard-Boiled Writers
1970s–1990s
LeRoy Lad Panek
2000

This Giving Birth
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This Giving Birth
Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Women’s Writing
Edited by Julie Tharp and Susan MacCallum-Whitcomb
2000

The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience
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The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience
Popular Culture as Market Derived Art
Alf H. Walle
2000

Reel Rituals
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Reel Rituals
Ritual Occasions from Baptisms to Funerals in Hollywood Films, 1945–1995
Parley Ann Boswell, Paul Loukides
1999

Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies
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Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden
1999

The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel
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The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel
John G. Cawelti
1999

Romantic Conventions
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Romantic Conventions
Edited by Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek
1999

Diversity and Detective Fiction
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Diversity and Detective Fiction
Edited by Kathleen Gregory Klein
1999

The Originals
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The Originals
The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball
Murry Nelson
1999

After the Western Reserve
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After the Western Reserve
The Ohio Fiction of Jessie Brown Pounds
Edited by Sandra Parker
1999

Ken Follett
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Ken Follett
The Transformation of a Writer
Carlos Ramet
1999

Graphic Opinions
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Graphic Opinions
Editorial Cartoonists and Their Art
Edited by Jack Colldeweih and, Kalman Goldstein
1998

Silent Witnesses
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Silent Witnesses
Representations of Working-Class Women in the United States
Jacqueline Ellis
1998

Love Valley
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Love Valley
An American Utopia
Conrad Ostwalt
1998

Home Material
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Home Material
Ohio’s Nineteenth-Century Regional Women’s Fiction
Sandra Parker
1998

Victims or Villains
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Victims or Villains
Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction
Malcolm J. Turnbull
1998

Flying for the Air Service
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Flying for the Air Service
The Hughes Brothers in World War I
David K. Vaughan
1998

Coming after Oprah
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Coming after Oprah
Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show
Vicki Abt, Leonard Mustazza
1997

Leon Forrest
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Leon Forrest
Introductions and Interpretations
John G. Cawelti
1997

Family Matters in the British and American Novel
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Family Matters in the British and American Novel
Edited by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, Elizabeth Nollen and, Sheila Reitzel Foor
1997

Mutilating the Body
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Mutilating the Body
Identity in Blood and Ink
Kim Hewitt
1997

Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace 1910–1927
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Life in the Shadows of the Crystal Palace 1910–1927
Ford Workers in the Model T Era
Clarence Hooker
1997

From Moonshine to Madison Avenue
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From Moonshine to Madison Avenue
A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Mark D. Howell
1997

Nancy Drew and Company
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Nancy Drew and Company
Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series
Edited by Sherrie A. Inness
1997

Retrofitting Blade Runner
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Retrofitting Blade Runner
Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Edited by Judith B. Kerman
1997

Vision/Re-Vision
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Vision/Re-Vision
Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1997

Dramatizing Dementia
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Dramatizing Dementia
Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
Jacqueline O’Connor
1997

In the Zone
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In the Zone
The Twilight World of Rod Serling
Peter Wolfe
1997

Lincoln-Lore
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Lincoln-Lore
Lincoln in the Popular Mind, 2nd edition
Edited by Ray B. Browne
1996

A Question of Class
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A Question of Class
The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Fiction
Duane Carr
1996

Befriending
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Befriending
The American Samaritans
Monica Dickens
1996

Buckeye Schoolmaster
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Buckeye Schoolmaster
A Chronicle of Midwestern Rural Life, 1853–1865
Edited by J. Merton England
1996

The Gothic World of Anne Rice
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The Gothic World of Anne Rice
Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
1996

Moving On
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Moving On
The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin
Susan S. Kissel
1996

Beyond the Stars 5
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Beyond the Stars 5
Themes and Ideologies in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1996

Gift Giving
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Gift Giving
A Research Anthology
Edited by Cele Otnes and Richard F. Beltramini
1996

Romance of the Road
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Romance of the Road
The Literature of the American Highway
Ronald Primeau
1996

Elusion Aforethought
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Elusion Aforethought
The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox
Malcolm J. Turnbull
1996

Poetry of the People
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Poetry of the People
Poems to the President, 1929–1945
Donald W. Whisenhunt
1996

Preview 2001+
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Preview 2001+
Popular Culture Studies in the Future
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick
1995

In the Beginning
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In the Beginning
First Novels in Mystery Series
Edited by Mary Jean DeMarr
1995

Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla
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Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla
A History of American Ice Cream
Anne Cooper Funderburg
1995

Go! Fight! Win!
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Go! Fight! Win!
Cheerleading in American Culture
Mary Ellen Hanson
1995

Outsiders in Nineteenth-century Press History
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Outsiders in Nineteenth-century Press History
Multicultural Perspectives
Edited by Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed
1995

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Women Times Three
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Women Times Three
Writers, Detectives, Readers
Kathleen Gregory Klein, Editor
1995

The Kid on the Sandlot
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The Kid on the Sandlot
Congress and Professional Sports, 1910–1992
Stephen R. Lowe
1995

The Wonder Team
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The Wonder Team
The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees
Leo Trachtenberg
1995

The Cultures of Celebrations
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The Cultures of Celebrations
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden
1994

Al Capp Remembered
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Al Capp Remembered
Elliott Caplin
1994

Stephen King’s America
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Stephen King’s America
Jonathan P. Davis
1994

Images of the Child
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Images of the Child
Edited by Harry Eiss
1994

Hunting and Fishing for Sport
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Hunting and Fishing for Sport
Commerce, Controversy, Popular Culture
Richard Hummel
1994

Picking Up the Tab
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Picking Up the Tab
The Life and Movies of Martin Ritt
Carlton Jackson
1994

Take Two
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Take Two
Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1994

Transgender Nation
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Transgender Nation
Gordene Olga MacKenzie
Spring 1994

Meditations on America
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Meditations on America
John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee Series and Other Fiction
Lewis D. Moore
1994

Eye on the Future
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Eye on the Future
Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne
Edited by Marilyn F. Motz, John Nachbar, Michael Marsden, and Ronald Ambrosetti
1994

No One Knows Their Names
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No One Knows Their Names
Screenwriters in Hollywood
Jorja Prover
1994

Dionysus in Literature
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Dionysus in Literature
Essays on Literary Madness
Edited by Branimir M. Rieger
1994

Stage Blood
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Stage Blood
Vampires of the Nineteenth-Century Stage
Roxana Stuart
1994

You Know My Method
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You Know My Method
The Science of the Detective
J.K. Van Dover
1994

Continuities in Popular Culture
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Continuities in Popular Culture
The Present in the Past and the Past in the Present and Future
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Ronald J. Ambrosetti
1993

Stewards of the House
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Stewards of the House
The Detective Fiction of Jonathan Latimer
Bill Brubaker
1993

Dance of the Sleepwalkers
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Dance of the Sleepwalkers
The Dance Marathon Fad
Frank M. Calabria
1993

The Terrible Fitzball
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The Terrible Fitzball
The Melodramatist of the Macabre
Larry Stephen Clifton
1993

The Reagan Range
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The Reagan Range
The Nostalgic Myth in American Politics
James Combs
1993

Dress in American Culture
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Dress in American Culture
Edited by Patricia A. Cunningham and Susan Voso Lab
1993

James Oliver Curwood
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James Oliver Curwood
God’s Country and the Man
Judith A. Eldridge
1993

“It Was Play or Starve”
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“It Was Play or Starve”
Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre
John Hanners
1993

Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise
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Daytime Television Gameshows and the Celebration of Merchandise
The Price Is Right
Morris B. Holbrook
1993

In Common Cause
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In Common Cause
The “Conservative” Frances Trollope and the “Radical” Frances Wright
Susan S. Kissel
1993

All That Glitters
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All That Glitters
Country Music in America
Edited by George H. Lewis
1993

Beyond the Stars 3
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Beyond the Stars 3
The Material World in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1993

Beyond the Stars 4
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Beyond the Stars 4
Locales in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1993

Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
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Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
Edited by Richard E. Meyer
1993

Skinheads Shaved For Battle
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Skinheads Shaved For Battle
A Cultural History of American Skinheads
Jack Moore
1993

Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction
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Katherine Mansfield’s Fiction
Patrick D. Morrow
1993

Baseball in 1889
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Baseball in 1889
Players vs. Owners
Daniel M. Pearson
1993

Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions
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Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions
Essays on Latin American, Carribean, and Continental Culture and Identity
Edited by Helen Ryan-Ranson
1993

Martians and Misplaced Clues
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Martians and Misplaced Clues
The Life and Work of Fredric Brown
Jack Seabrook
1993

H. R. F. Keating
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H. R. F. Keating
Post-Colonial Detection, A Critical Study
Meera Tamaya
1993

Communication and Women’s Friendships
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Communication and Women’s Friendships
Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life
Edited by Janet Doubler Ward and JoAnna Stephens Mink
1993

Child Brides and Intruders
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Child Brides and Intruders
Carol Wershoven
1993

Alarms & Epitaphs
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Alarms   Epitaphs
The Art of Eric Ambler
Peter Wolfe
1993

Ferris Wheels
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Ferris Wheels
An Illustrated History
Norman D. Anderson
1992

The Many Tongues of Literacy
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The Many Tongues of Literacy
Ray B. Browne
1992

Rejuvenating the Humanities
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Rejuvenating the Humanities
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick
1992

Advertising and Popular Culture
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Advertising and Popular Culture
Studies in Variety and Versatility
Sammy R. Danna
1992

Visions of War
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Visions of War
World War II in Popular Literature and Culture
Edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield
1992

The Gateway Arch
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The Gateway Arch
Fact and Symbol
W. Arthur Mehrhoff
1992

Popular Culture
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Popular Culture
An Introductory Text
Edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause
1992

Live from Atlantic City
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Live from Atlantic City
The Miss America Pageant Before, After, and In Spite of Television
A. R. Riverol
1992

Beyond Cheering and Bashing
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Beyond Cheering and Bashing
New Perspectives on The Closing of the American Mind
Edited by James Seaton and William K. Buckley
1992

Popular Arthurian Traditions
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Popular Arthurian Traditions
Edited by Sally K. Slocum
1992

The Nightmare Considered
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The Nightmare Considered
Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature
Edited by Nancy Anisfield
1991

Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism
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Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism
Doug Blandy, Kristin O. Congdon
1991

Digging into Popular Culture
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Digging into Popular Culture
Theories and Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology, and Other Fields
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne
1991

Polpop 2
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Polpop 2
Politics and Popular Culture in America Today
James Combs
1991

The Great Art Hoax
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The Great Art Hoax
Essays in the Comedy and Insanity of Collectible Art
Jon Huer
1991

The Picara
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The Picara
From Hera to Fantasy Heroine
Anne K. Kaler
1991

Beyond the Stars 2
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Beyond the Stars 2
Plot Conventions in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1991

Joinings and Disjoinings
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Joinings and Disjoinings
The Significance of Marital Status in Literature
Edited by JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward
1991

Marginal Conventions
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Marginal Conventions
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance
Edited by Clinton R. Sanders
1991

Mysteries of Africa
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Mysteries of Africa
Eugene Schleh, Editor
1991

Hardboiled in Hollywood
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Hardboiled in Hollywood
Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies
David Wilt
1991

Dancing Fools and Weary Blues
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Dancing Fools and Weary Blues
The Great Escape of the Twenties
Edited by Lawrence R. Broer and John D. Walther
1990

The Sound of Light
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The Sound of Light
A History of Gospel Music
Don Cusic
1990

Front-Page Detective
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Front-Page Detective
William J. Burns and the Detective Profession, 1880–1930
William R. Hunt
1990

John Dickson Carr
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John Dickson Carr
A Critical Study
S. T. Joshi
1990

Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
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Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Edited by Anne K. Kaler
1990

Beyond the Stars 1
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Beyond the Stars 1
Stock Characters in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1990

Probable Cause
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Probable Cause
Crime Fiction in America
Leroy Lad Panek
1990

<i>Old Sleuth</i>’s Freaky Female Detectives
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Old Sleuth’s Freaky Female Detectives
(from the Dime Novels)
Garyn G. Roberts, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne
1990

Perspectives of Black Popular Culture
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Perspectives of Black Popular Culture
Edited by Harry B. Shaw
1990

Cowboys and Caudillos
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Cowboys and Caudillos
Frontier Ideology of the Americas
Tom R. Sullivan
1990

A Legend for the Legendary
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A Legend for the Legendary
The Origin of the Baseball Hall of Fame
James A. Vlasich
1990

Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler
A Psychological Interpretation of His Views on Architecture, Art, and Music
Sherree Owens Zalampas
1990

Against Academia
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Against Academia
The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement, 1967–1988
Ray B. Browne
1989

Suspense in the Formula Story
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Suspense in the Formula Story
George N. Dove
1989

The Monster with a Thousand Faces
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The Monster with a Thousand Faces
Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature
Brian J. Frost
1989

Girls Who Went Wrong
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Girls Who Went Wrong
Prostitutes in American Fiction, 1885–1917
Laura Hapke
1989

Body Love
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Body Love
The Amazing Career of Bernarr Macfadden
William R. Hunt
1989

Mother of Detective Fiction
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Mother of Detective Fiction
The Life and Works of Anna Katharine Green
Patricia D. Maida
1989

Deadly Excitements
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Deadly Excitements
Shadows and Phantoms
Robert D. Sampson
1989

American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume 2
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American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume 2
The Age of Rock
Edited by Timothy E. Scheurer
1989

American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume I
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American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume I
The Nineteenth-Century Tin Pan Alley
Edited by Timothy E. Scheurer
1989

Cooking by the Book
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Cooking by the Book
Food in Literature and Culture
Edited by Mary Anne Schofield
1989

Two Guns From Harlem
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Two Guns From Harlem
The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes
Robert E. Skinner
1989

East of Samarinda
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East of Samarinda
Carl Jacobi
Carl Jacobi, R. Dixon Smith
1989

Politics and the Muse
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Politics and the Muse
Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature
Edited by Adam J. Sorkin
1989

Elizabethan Popular Culture
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Elizabethan Popular Culture
Leonard R. N. Ashley
1988

Cheap Rooms and Restless Hearts
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Cheap Rooms and Restless Hearts
A Study of Formula in the Urban Tales of William Sydney Porter
Karen Charmaine Blansfield
1988

The Spirit of Australia
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The Spirit of Australia
The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield
Ray B. Browne
1988

Symbiosis
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Symbiosis
Popular Culture and Other Fields
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick
1988

A Social Gospel for Millions
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A Social Gospel for Millions
The Religious Bestsellers of Charles Sheldon, Charles Gordon, and Harold Bell Wright
John P. Ferré
1988

Yardbird Suite
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Yardbird Suite
A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker
Lawrence O. Koch
1988

Landscape of Fear
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Landscape of Fear
Stephen King’s American Gothic
Tony Magistrale
1988

The Noble Savage in the New World Garden
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The Noble Savage in the New World Garden
Notes toward a Syntactics of Place
Gaile McGregor
1988

Making the American Home
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Making the American Home
Middle-Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840–1940
Edited by Marilyn F. Motz and Pat Browne
1988

Search and Clear
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Search and Clear
Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War
Edited by William J. Searle
1988

Vietnam Anthology
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Vietnam Anthology
American War Literature
Edited by Nancy Anisfield
1987

Comic Crime
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Comic Crime
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
1987

Heroines of Popular Culture
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Heroines of Popular Culture
Edited by Pat Browne
1987

The Incredible Scream Machine
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The Incredible Scream Machine
A History of the Roller Coaster
Robert Cartmell
1987

Snapshot Versions of Life
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Snapshot Versions of Life
Richard Chalfen
1987

Rock Eras
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Rock Eras
Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954–1984
Jim Curtis
1987

Necessary American Fictions
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Necessary American Fictions
Popular Literature of the 1950s
William Darby
1987

Early American Almanac Humor
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Early American Almanac Humor
Robert K. Dodge
1987

The God Pumpers
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The God Pumpers
Religion in the Electronic Age
Edited by Marshall W. Fishwick and Ray B. Browne
1987

The Gothic World of Stephen King
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The Gothic World of Stephen King
Landscape of Nightmares
Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
1987

In Search of the Paper Tiger
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In Search of the Paper Tiger
A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium
Gary Hoppenstand
1987

Children of the Series and How They Grew
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Children of the Series and How They Grew
or A Century of Heroines & Heroes, Romantic, Comic, Moral
Faye R. Kensinger
1987

Introductory Nutrition
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Introductory Nutrition
Manual of Basic Nutrition Exercises
Sooja K. Kim and Patrice Fraker
1987

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 4
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Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 4
The Solvers
Robert Sampson
1987

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 3
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Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 3
From the Dark Side
Robert Sampson
1987

Humor and Comedy in Puppetry
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Humor and Comedy in Puppetry
Celebration in Popular Culture
Edited by Dina Sherzer and Joel Sherzer
1987

Voices
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Voices
An Anthropologist’s Dialogue with an Italian-American Festival
Richard M. Swiderski
1987

Corridors of Deceit
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Corridors of Deceit
The World of John le Carré
Peter Wolfe
1987

Heroes and Humanities
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Heroes and Humanities
Detective Fiction and Culture
Ray B. Browne
1986

Laws of Our Fathers
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Laws of Our Fathers
Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Glenn J. Browne
1986

Fantasy, Fashion, and Affection
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Fantasy, Fashion, and Affection
Editions of Robert Herrick’s Poetry for the Common Reader, 1810–1968
Jay A. Gertzman
1986

The Religion of Science Fiction
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The Religion of Science Fiction
Frederick A. Kreuziger
1986

A Cent a Story!
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A Cent a Story!
The Best from Ten Detective Aces
Garyn G. Roberts
1986

Gender Studies
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Gender Studies
New Directions in Feminist Criticism
Edited by Judith A. Spector
1986

Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights
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Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights
A Survey of American Detective Fiction 1922–1984
Robert A. Baker, Michael T. Nietzel
1985

And Then There Were Nine. . .
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And Then There Were Nine. . .
More Women of Mystery
Edited by Jane S. Bakerman
1985

The Boys from Grover Avenue
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The Boys from Grover Avenue
Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct Novels
George N. Dove
1985

More Tales of the Defective Detective in the Pulps
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More Tales of the Defective Detective in the Pulps
Gary Hoppenstand, Garyn G. Roberts, and Ray B. Browne
1985

Wrestling to Rasslin’
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Wrestling to Rasslin’
Ancient Sport to American Spectacle
Gerald W. Morton and George M. O’Brien
1985

Max Brand: Western Giant
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Max Brand: Western Giant
The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust
Compiled and Edited by William F. Nolan
1985

The American Theatrical Film
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The American Theatrical Film
Stages in Development
John C. Tibbetts
1985

Hollywood Troubleshooter
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Hollywood Troubleshooter
W. T. Ballard’s Bill Lennox Stories
Edited and Introduced by James L. Traylor
1985

Something More than Night
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Something More than Night
The Case of Raymond Chandler
Peter Wolfe
1985

Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
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Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
1984

Forbidden Fruits
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Forbidden Fruits
Taboos and Tabooism in Culture
Edited by Ray B. Brown
1984

Form and the Art of Theatre
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Form and the Art of Theatre
Paul Newell Campbell
1984

Tales from Wales
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Tales from Wales
Leo Damant
1984

The Empire Strikes Out
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The Empire Strikes Out
Kurd Lasswitz, Hans Dominik, and the Development of German Science Fiction
William B. Fischer
1984

Hounds of the Road
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Hounds of the Road
A History of the Greyhound Bus Company
Carlton Jackson
1984

Love’s $weet Return
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Love’s $weet Return
The Harlequin Story
Margaret Ann Jensen
1984

Irvin S. Cobb
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Irvin S. Cobb
Anita Lawson
1984

Henry L. Brunk and Brunk’s Comedians
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Henry L. Brunk and Brunk’s Comedians
Tent Repertoire Empire of the Southwest
Jerry L. Martin
1984

Personal Places
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Personal Places
Perspectives on Informal Art Environments
Daniel Franklin Ward
1984

Dime Novel Roundup
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Dime Novel Roundup
Annotated Index, 1931–1981
Michael L. Cook
1983

Mystery Fanfare
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Mystery Fanfare
A Composite Annotated Index to Mystery and Related Fanzines 1963–1981
Michael L. Cook
1983

The Defective Detective in the Pulps
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The Defective Detective in the Pulps
Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
1983

Dissent and Affirmation
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Dissent and Affirmation
Essays in Honor of Mulford Q. Sibley
Edited by Arthur L. Kalleberg, J. Donald Moon, and, Donald Sabia
1983

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 1
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Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 1
Glory Figures
Robert Sampson
1983

Other Worlds
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Other Worlds
The Fantasy Genre
John H. Timmerman
1983

Ananda
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Ananda
Where Yoga LIves
John Ball
1982

The Police Procedural
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The Police Procedural
George N. Dove
1982

Dr. Joe Bell
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Dr. Joe Bell
Model for Sherlock Holmes
Ely M. Liebow
1982

The Albums of James Tissot
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The Albums of James Tissot
Willard Misfeldt
1982

A Pillar of Fire to Follow
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A Pillar of Fire to Follow
American Indian Dramas, 1808–1859
Priscilla Sears
1982

Ten Women of Mystery
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Ten Women of Mystery
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
1981

Custer Legends
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Custer Legends
Lawrence A. Frost
1981

Learning To See
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Learning To See
Historical Perspectives on Modern Popular/Commercial Arts
Alan Gowans
1981

The Fallen Angel
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The Fallen Angel
Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading, 1835–1880
Sally Mitchell
1981

A Common Spring
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A Common Spring
Crime Novel and Classic
Nadya Aisenberg
1980

The Gentle Art of Murder
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The Gentle Art of Murder
The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
Earl F. Bargainnier
1980

Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture
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Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture
Edited by Ray B. Browne
1980

Seasoned Authors for a New Season
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Seasoned Authors for a New Season
The Search for Standards in Popular Writing
Louis Filler
1980

The Agatha Christie Companion
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The Agatha Christie Companion
Russell H. Fitzgibbon
1980

The New Gods
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The New Gods
Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art
Harold Schechter
1980

5000 Years of Popular Culture
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5000 Years of Popular Culture
Popular Culture before Printing
Edited by Fred E.H. Schroeder
1980

The Alabama Folk Lyric
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The Alabama Folk Lyric
A Study in Origins and Media of Dissemination
Collected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by Ray B. Browne
1979

America
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America
Exploration and Travel
Steven E. Kagel, Editor
1979

Watteau’s Shepherds
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Watteau’s Shepherds
The Detective Novel in Britain, 1914–1940
Leroy Lad Panek
1979

Critical Analyses in English Renaissance Drama
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Critical Analyses in English Renaissance Drama
A Bibliographic Guide
Brownell Salomon
1979

A Question of Quality
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A Question of Quality
Popularity and Value in Modern Creative Writing
Louis Filler
1976

Novelist to a Generation
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Novelist to a Generation
The Life and Thought of Winston Churchill
Robert W. Schneider
1976

The Controversial Sholem Asch
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The Controversial Sholem Asch
An Introduction to His Fiction
Ben Siegel
1976

The Militant Hackwriter
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The Militant Hackwriter
French Popular Literature 1800–1848 and Its Influence, Artistic and Political
Lucian W. Minor
1975

The Popularity of Middle English Romance
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The Popularity of Middle English Romance
Velma Bourgeois Richmond
1975

The American Dream and the National Game
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The American Dream and the National Game
Leverett T. Smith Jr.
1975

Irving Wallace
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Irving Wallace
A Writer’s Profile
John Leverence
1974

SF
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SF
The Other Side of Realism
Edited by Thomas D. Clareson
1971

Folksongs and Their Makers
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Folksongs and Their Makers
Henry Glassie, Edward D. Ives, and John F. Szwed
1970