Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture

Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture

Volume 9, Issue 2

The Golden Girls Share Signature Stories: Narratives of Aging, Identity, and Communal Desire, Christyne A. Berzsenyi

The Clothes Make the Man (and Woman):The Performative Enactment of Identity in Tawni O'Dell's Back Roads, Diane Todd Bucci

"History Is a Funny Thing": African Americans in the West, American Studies, and the Screen, Melissa Daniels

Being George Carlin:Carlinesque as Performative Resistance, Prakash Kona

The Million Dollar Question: How Do You Sell English on the Silver Screen? - A Visio-Linguistic Analysis of Slumdog Millionaire, Anjali Pandey

Volume 9, Issue 1

"Every Drop Is Green": Bottled Water, the Wilderness Ideal, and the Evolution of Green Advertising, Eric Boime

The Dude as Modern Hero?: Salvation and Jewish Storytelling in The Big Lebowski, Eitan Kensky

The Hyperreal Theme in 1990s American Cinema, Randy Laist

"Married to Public Life": The Conflicted Courtship of Emma Goldman and American Popular Culture, Esther Post

Conversation with Sam B. Girgus

Volume 8, Issue 2

Noirish Inversions: Investigation and Victimization in The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct, Becca Cragin

Art Revolution:Politics and Pop in the Robert Colescott Painting George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware, Jody B. Cutler

In the Face of Anomie: Batman from Golden Autoark to Modern Combinard,

Darren Marks

The Justice of Melodrama: The West Wing's Coping Strategies in a  World of Violence and Terror, Young Hoon Kim

Conversation with Philippa Gates

Volume 8, Issue 1

"Dead Men Do Tell Tales": CSI: Miami and the Case Against Narrative, Scott Campbell

From Kid Nation to Caste Nation: Mobility, Privilege, and the Paradox of Class
on Reality Television, Mike Meloy

The Repertoire of Black Popular Culture, Angela Nelson

"Fish Are Just Like People, Only Flakier": Environmental Practice and Theory in Finding Nemo, Christy Tidwell

Conversation with Jonathan B. Vogels

Volume 7, Issue 2

The Land of Lost Content: Living in the Past with The Waltons, Stephen Brie

Negotiating Authenticity:Coal Miner's Daughter, the Biopic, and Country Music, Molly Brost

Invisible Girl's Quest for Visibility:Early Second-Wave Feminism and the Comic Book Superheroine, Laura Mattoon D'Amore

The All American Other:Native American Music and Musicians on the Circuit Chautauqua, Paige Clark Lush

Conversation with Stacy Holman Jones

Volume 7, Issue 1

Babyboomer Mythology and Stephen King's It: An American Cultural Analysis, Susan Love Brown

Why I Watch What Not to Wear, Or, How Women Get in Gender Trouble, Jenny Douglas

Ken Bruen's American Skin and Postmodern Media Culture, Paula Murphy

Dismantling Americana: Sambo, Shirley Graham, and African Nationalism Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson

Conversation with Lisa Yaszek

Volume 6, Issue 2

When Fake Is More Real:Of Fools, Parody, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Ana Kothe

"Hello Lover": Commodification, Intimacy, and Second-Wave Feminism on Sex in the City, Katherine Hyunmi Lee

Food Puritanism and Food Pornography: The Gournet Semiotics of Martha and Nigella, Richard Magee

Business as Usual:Exploring the Other from Arabia to Appalachia Usame Tunagur
& Thomas R. Britt

Conversation with M.Thomas Inge

Volume 6, Issue 1

Spy Games Alias, Sydney Bristow, and the Ever Complicated Gaze, Molly Brost

The Answer to the Atom Bomb: Rhetoric, Identification, and the Grateful Dead, Elizabeth Carroll

The American Frontier:History, Rhetoric, Concept, Catherine Gouge

"Live! In the Canyon":Historical Pageantry as Community-Builder
in the Paso del Norte, Carolyn D. Roark

Conversation with Joseph Natoli

Volume 5, Issue 2

Toxic Togetherness in a Postwar "Potboiler": Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, Stacey Stanfield Anderson

Radio Free Coltrane: Free Jazz Radio as Revolutionary Practice, Nicholas L. Baham 

Policing Traumatized Boundaries of Self and Nation: Undocumented Labor in Blade Runner, Anil Narine A Passing Fashion:Appearance and Transcendence in Doris Lessing's The Summer Before the Dark and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Evelyn Pezzulich

Conversation with Christopher J. Wright

Volume 5, Issue 1

Fútbol América: Hemispheric Sport as Border Studies, David Faflik

Surveillance, Paranoia, and Abjection: The Ideological Underpinnings of Waste Management in the EPA’s Measuring Recycling Guidelines and Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Jeremy Justus

John Wayne and the Queer Frontier: Deconstructions of the Classic Cowboy Narrative during the Vietnam War, Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd

The Cultural Myth of the Cowboy, or, How the West Was Won, Jennifer Moskowitz
University of South Dakota

Conversation with Professor Douglas R. Anderson

Volume 4, Issue 2

Steve Earle and the Possibilities of Pragmatism, David Carithers

Rituals of Nostalgia: Old-Fashioned Melodrama at the Millenium, James M. Cherry

Making Shopping Safe for the Rest of Us: Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic Series and Its Readers, Jennifer Scanlon "Say Goodbye to Hollywood": Popular Music and Mythic Deconstruction in Shampoo, Paul Tayyar

Conversation with Professor Arthur Asa Berger 

Volume 4, Issue 1

Constructing “Godless Communism”: Religion, Politics, and Popular Culture, 1954-1960, Thomas Aiello Jazz Strategy:Dizzy, Foreign Policy, and Government in 1956, Scott Gac Rap Music and the Stagolee Mythoform, Angela Nelson

Encountering the Other:SARS, Public Health, and Race Relations, Da Zheng

Conversation with Professor E. Ann Kaplan

Volume 3.2

The Other American Kitchen:Alternative Domesticity in 1950s Design, Politics, and Fiction, Caroline Hellman

Reading Cereal Boxes: Pre-packaging History and Indigenous Identities, Lesley V. Kadish

Ridin’ the Rails: The Place of the Passenger and the Space of the Hobo, John Lennon

The Despotism of the Popular: Anarchy and Leon Czolgosz at the Turn of the Century, Chris Vials

Conversation with Professor Paul A. Cantor

Volume 3.1

The Light in the Forest Is Love: Cold War Masculinity and the Disney Adventure Boys, Jeffery P. Dennis

Through the Looking Glass of Silver Springs: Tourism and the Politics of Vision, Wendy Adams King

An "Invasion of Vulgarity": American Popular Music and Modernity in Print Media Discourse, 1900-1925, Matthew Mooney

"It's a Hell of a Thing to Kill a Man": Western Manhood in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Clay Motley

Conversation with Professor Robert C. Allen 

Volume 2.2

The Last Amateur Sport: Automobile Racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats, Jessie Embry

Barbara Kingsolver’s Anti-Western: “Unraveling the Myths” in Animal Dreams, Naomi Jacobs

Hard-boiled Histories:Walter Mosley’s Revisionary Eye, Phillip Novak

The Hannibal Lecter Novels: Modern/Postmodern Fables, Len Platt

Space Museum:Heroism, Conformity, and the Conflicts of an Age, Albert Wendland

Conversation with Professor Marshall Fishwick 

Volume 2.1

"One of Those Little Things You Learn to Live With": On the Politics of Violence in Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, Juan José Cruz

Gertrude Stein, The Great Great Grand MF of Rap?: Four Saints in Three Acts
and the Hip Hop/Rap/Spoken Word Aesthetic, Jean E. Mills

Cerebus: An Aardvark on the Edge (A Brief History of Dave Sim and His
Independent Comic Book),Kelly Rothenberg

"The Monster Never Dies": An Analysis of the Gothic Double in Stephen King's Oeuvre, Heidi Strengell

Conversation with Professor Peter C. Rollins 

Volume 1.2

Chasms of Reality, Aberrations of Identity: Defining the Postmodern through  Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Alex E. Blazer

Negative Attraction:The Politics of Interracial Romance in The Replacement Killers, Floyd Cheung

The Great Storefront of American Nationalism: Narratives of Mars and the Outerspatial Frontier, Catherine Gouge

Zombies, Malls, and the Consumerism Debate: George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, Stephen Harper

A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Thou Beside Me in the Kitchen, Cher Holt-Fortin 

Pariah among Pariahs: Images of the IV Drug User in the Context of AIDS, Dennis Lensing

Plague of the Century:Thoughts on Crowd, Conformity, and Contagion,David Raney

"Oh Baby!": Representations of Single Mothers in American Popular Culture, Robin Silbergleid

Conversation with Ray B. Browne

Volume 1.1

Trespasses into Temptation: Gendered Imagination and The Blair Witch Project, Deneka C. MacDonald Modern America and Its Discontents: The Ride-Hard, Die-Free Fantasy of Bike Week, Alan Pratt

"I'm Not Gonna Hurt You": Legal Penetrations in Thelma and Louise, David Russell

The Discourse of Whiteness: Chinese-American History, Pearl S. Buck, and The Good Earth, Stephen Spencer

"In a So-Called Civilized World":American Pop Primitivism and The Cramps, Jonathan David White

Conversation with George Lipsitz

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