Description
When it comes to seeing depth and lateral connections in the development of popular culture, nobody exceeds Marshall Fishwick.
-Canadian Psychology
In Probing Popular Culture: On and Off the Internet, one of the leading authorities in American and popular culture studies presents an eye-opening examination o
Table of Contents
About the Author Contributors Foreword (Tom Wolfe) Preface (Peter Rollins) Acknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century Notes from the Backbench PROBING THE POPULAR The Probing Process Pioneer Probers Probing a Frenzy The American Studies Link The Popular Culture Boom The East-West Pop Link The Great Tradition LOOKING AROUND Pop Hype The Gap To Hack or Not to Hack 9/11 Cyberlore Heroes: From Haloes to Handcuffs Connecting the Dots Spoiled by Success LOOKING BACK The Cowboy and World Mythology Paul Bunyan: Fakelore Meets Folklore The Sign of the T: Henry Ford Folk-Joke: Joe Magarac ARF Thunder from the Pulpit LOOKING AHEAD Living with Machines Wanted: A New Mythology Helping Humpty-Dumpty What Lies Ahead? Petite Probes OTHER VOICES The Virus of Superficial Popular Culture Studies (Ray B. Browne) Teachers, Teens, and Technology (Katherine Lynde) The Realm of Splogia: A Report to the World Anthropological Legation (James Combs) My Students Speak Epilogue: How Are We Different? Appendix: Essential Electronic Resources Further Reading Notes Index
