Dominant symbols in popular culture / edited by Ray B. Browne, Marshall W. Fishwick, Kevin O. Browne.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Browne, Ray B. (Ray Broadus), 1922-2009, Fishwick, Marshall W. (Marshall William), 1923-2006, Browne, Kevin O.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©1990.
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Table of Contents:
  • Symbols : America's "natural facts" / Marshall Fishwick
  • Evolution of the book as symbol / Ray B. Browne
  • The political meaning of popular symbolic activity / James Combs
  • The goblin child : folktale symbolism in popular art / Harold Schechter and Jonna G. Semeiks
  • Symbolism's "new spin" / Richard G. Peterson
  • American mobility / Michael Aaron Rockland
  • The changing image of workers in popular culture / Tom Juravich
  • Symbols of ethnicity and popular culture ; Regionalism and popular culture : from social force to symbolism / John G. Cawelti
  • Pornography and popular culture / John G. Cawelti and Mary C. Flannery
  • Wilderness : ambiguous symbol of the American past / Philip G. Terrie.
  • The tamed wild : symbolic bears in American culture / Elizabeth A. Lawrence
  • Recreational architecture as popular culture : the symbolic design of the American theater / Gary Edgerton
  • Discourse of the deal : the car salesman as symbol / Marc Baldwin
  • Symbolism in humor / Sam G. Riley
  • Political cartoon symbols and the divergence of popular and traditional cultures in the United States / Roger A. Fischer
  • Pink flamingoes : symbols and symbolism in yard art / Anthony Synnott
  • Deaths, wakes, funerals : Italian American style / J. Michael Ferri
  • The food habits of Italian immigrants to America : an examination of the persistence of a food culture and the rise of "fast food" in America / Harvey A. Levenstein and Joseph R. Conlin.