1. ENGL 6310/7310 Popular Culture Studies Fall 2011 PH 300 M 240-540 Dr. David Lavery ENGL 6310/7310 Popular Culture Studies Fall 2011 PH 300 M 240-540 Dr. David Lavery

2. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation The following list is a compendium of (1) the entries in the Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture and (2) the subject areas of the national Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA).

3. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Academics & Collegiate Culture  Adaptation (Film, TV, Lit., & Electronic Gaming)  Adolescence in Film & Television  Advertising  African-American Culture  Age of Theodore Roosevelt & Popular Culture  American Indian Literatures & Cultures?  American Literature  Amusement Parks and Fairs  Animation  Appalachian Studies  Architecture  Arthurian Legends  Asian Popular Culture  Automobile Culture Popular Culture Studies

4. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Baby-Boomer Culture  Biographies  Black Music Culture/Hip Hop Culture  Body and Physical Difference  Border Studies, Cultural Economy & Migration  Brazilian Popular Culture  British Popular Culture  Business/Corporate Culture  Caribbean Literature & Culture  Catalogs  Celebrity in Culture  Cemeteries & Gravemarkers  Chicanao Culture: Literature, Film, Theory  Children‘s Literature & Culture  Circuses & Circus Culture Popular Culture Studies

5. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Civil War & Reconstruction  Collecting & Collectibles  Comedy and Humor  Comic Art & Comics  Comic Books  Comic Strips  Communication & Digital Culture  Computers and the Digital Age  Conspiracy Theory  Cultural Conflict & Women  Dance & Culture  Death  Debate and Public Address  Dime Novels/Pulps/Juvenile Series Books  Disasters & Culture Popular Culture Studies

6. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Do-It-Yourself, Home Repair, and Remodeling  Documentary  Eastern European Studies  Ecology and Culture  Editorial Cartoons  Education, Teaching, History & Popular Culture  Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture  Ethnicity  Fairy Tales  Fan Culture & Theory  Fantasy  Fashion, Appearance, & Consumer Identity  Fat Studies  Festivals & Faires  Film Popular Culture Studies

7. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Film & History  Film Adaptation  Folklore  Food in Popular Culture  Foodways  Game Studies  Games and Toys  Gardening  Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies  Gender & Media Studies  Gender Studies  German Literature & Culture  Gothic in Literature, Film, & Culture  Graffiti  Horror  Housing Popular Culture Studies

8. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Illustration  Indian Culture, Art, & Media  Internet Culture  Jazz  Journalism & Media Culture  Language Attitudes & Popular Linguistics  Latin American Film & Media  Latin American Literature & Culture  Leisure Vehicles, Pleasure Boats, and Aircraft  Libraries, Archives, Museums, ?& Popular Research  Literature & Madness  Literature & Politics  Literature & Science  Literature & Society  Living History and Battlefield Reenactments  Magazines  Magic and Magicians  Masculinities in Popular Culture Popular Culture Studies

9. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Material Culture  Medical Humanities: Health & Disease in Culture  Medieval Popular Culture  Men/Men's Studies  Mental Health & Illness in Popular Culture  Motorcycling Culture & Myth  Museums and Collecting  Music  Musicals, Stage & Film  Mystery & Detective Fiction  Mythology in Contemporary Culture  New Age Movements  Newspapers  Non-Fiction Writing  Paranormal, The  Philosophy & Popular Culture  Photography Popular Culture Studies

10. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Politics Portrayed in Electronic Print and Media  Popular American Authors  Popular Art, Architecture, & Design  Popular History in American Culture  Popular Literature and Bestsellers  Popular Religion  Pornography  Propaganda  Protest Issues & Actions  Pulps and Dime Novels  Punk Culture  Radio & Audio Media  Recording Industry  Religion & Culture  Rhetoric, Composition, & Popular Culture  Romance Popular Culture Studies

11. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Romantic Fiction  Science  Science Fiction  Sea Literature, History, & Culture  Self-Help  Shakespeare on Film and Television  Sixties, The  Soap Opera  Sociology of Literature  Southern Literature & Culture  Sports  Stephen King  Subcultural Style & Identity  Tarot in Culture  Television  Theatre & Drama Popular Culture Studies

12. Popular Culture Subjects/Areas of Investigation  Transatlantic Cultural Issues  Travel & Tourism  Vampire in Literature, Culture, & Film, The  Verse and Popular Poetry  Vietnam  Visual & Verbal Culture  Visual Culture  Westerns  Westerns & the West  Women's Studies  Working Class Culture  World Wars I & II  World's Fairs & Expositions  Young Adult Fiction Popular Culture Studies