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


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


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


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


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


Sundae Best
A History of Soda Fountains
Anne Cooper Funderburg
2001


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


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


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


Ken Follett
The Transformation of a Writer
Carlos Ramet
1999


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


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


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


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


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


Leon Forrest
Introductions and Interpretations
John G. Cawelti
1997


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
Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1997


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


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


Befriending
The American Samaritans
Monica Dickens
1996


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Personal Places
Perspectives on Informal Art Environments
Daniel Franklin Ward
1984


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


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


Ananda
Where Yoga LIves
John Ball
1982


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


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

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


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
Exploration and Travel
Steven E. Kagel, Editor
1979


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


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