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Communication Theory Today. David Crowley and David Mitchell, editors. Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film. Stuart C. Aitken and Leo E. Zonn, editors. The Ad Men and Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Advertising. Edd Applegate. Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill. Shelly Armitage. Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History. Robin Kadison Berson. The Schocking Ballad Picture Show: German Popular Literature and Cultural History. Tom Cheesman. From A to Zotamorf: The Dictionary of Palindromes. Stephen J. Chism. Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture. Les Cleveland. The War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice. Robert C. Davis. Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India. Sara Dickey. The Cockfight: A Casebook. Alan Dundes, editor. The Lawyer and Popular Culture: Proceedings of a Conference. David L. Gunn, editor. Pride in the Jungle: Community and Everyday Life in Back of the Yards Chicago. Thomas J. Jablonsky. Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing. Stephen Kline. Being Religious, American Style: A History of Popular Religiosity in the United States. Charles H. Lippy. Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Robert Merrill. The Unreality Industry. Ian I. Mitroff and Warren Bennis. Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy. William Paul. Black and White in Colour: Black People in British Television Since 1936. Jim Pines, editor. The Man in the Bowler Hat: His History and Iconography. Fred Miller Robinson. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Jonathan Shay. American Eats. Nelson Algren. The Beaver Bites Back: American Popular Culture in Canada. David H. Flaherty and Frank E. Manning, eds. The Battle of the Frogs and a Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the Engligh Revolution. Jerome Friedman. Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies: 1,000 Chunks of Chocolate Information. Linda K. Fuller. Andrew M. Greeley: An Annotated Bibliography. Elizabeth Harrison. Creativity and Popular Culture. David Holbrook. Schooling in the Light of Popular Culture. Paul Farber, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Gunilla Holm, editors. Perspectives on American Culture: Essays on Humor, Literature and the Popular Arts. M. Thomas Inge. The Gas Station in America. John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle. Montgomery Clift: A Bio‐Bibliography. Mary C. Kalfatovic 7 Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon. Norman M. Klein. Animation, Caricature and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada. An International Bibliography. Compiles by John A. Lent. Radical Visions: American Film Renaissance, 1967‐1976. Glenn Man. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914‐1950. Joseph McAleer. Medieval Balladry and the Courtly Tradition: Literature of Revolt and Assimilation. Gwendolyn A. Morgan. Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture. Anne Norton. High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing 1950‐1990. Robert C. Post. Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe. Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi & Maurice Slawinski, editors. Contemporary Hollywood's Negative Hispanic Image: An Interpretive Filmography, 1956‐1993. Alfred Charles Richard, Jr.Peter Freese and Michael Porsche, editors. Popular culture in the United States.