UW Press: Popular Culture

Many of the titles listed here are from Popular Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press.

Paper $21.95
ISBN 978-0-299-30964-0

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Place Names of Wisconsin
Edward Callary

“Up-to-date and fully documented, this alphabetical guide to more than two thousand names of Wisconsin’s counties, towns, cities, and villages will be the definitive resource on Wisconsin place names for years to come. Readers—whether locals, travelers, or scholars—will enjoy learning about the unique history of the state as reflected in its place names.”
—Luanne von Schneidemesser, senior editor, Dictionary of American Regional English

Cloth $24.95
ISBN 978-0-299-31000-4

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Lithium Jesus
A Memoir of Mania
Charles Monroe-Kane

“A young man grapples with bipolar ‘voices’ via religion, hedonism, activism, and Lithium. In his debut, Monroe-Kane, a Peabody Award–winning public radio producer, brings a fresh perspective to familiar memoir territory. . . . [A] compelling account of wrestling with inner turmoil against gritty, dramatic international settings.”
—Kirkus Reviews

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ISBN 978-0-299-30710-3

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City of Neighborhoods
Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
Anthony Bak Buccitelli

“This fascinating deep-dive into historically ethnic neighborhoods reveals that old stereotypes have been supplanted by vibrant, multiethnic neighborhoods that now use ethnicity as a means for inclusion. A riveting, insider look into what really happens in Boston’s diverse neighborhoods.”
—Timothy Tangherlini, University of California, Los Angeles

Protest on the Page
Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent
Edited by James L. Baughman, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, and James P. Danky
Spring 2015

Dear World
Contemporary Uses of the Diary
Kylie Cardell
Fall 2014

Early African Entertainments Abroad
From the Hottentot Venus to Africa’s First Olympians
Bernth Lindfors
Fall 2014

Eat Smart in Denmark
How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure
Carol Schroeder
Fall 2014

John Williams’s Film Music
Jaws, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Return of the Classical Hollywood Music Style
Emilio Audissino
Spring 2014

Masked
The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam
Alfred Habegger
Spring 2014

Lawfully Wedded Husband
How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
Joel Derfner
Fall 2013

It’s All a Kind of Magic
The Young Ken Kesey
Rick Dodgson
Fall 2013

The Tamburitza Tradition
From the Balkans to the American Midwest
Richard March
Fall 2013

The Last Laugh
Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
Trevor J. Blank
Spring 2013

True Songs of Freedom
Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Russian Culture and Society
John MacKay
Spring 2013

American Nightmares
The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction
Dale Bailey
Fall 2012

Brewed Awakenings
An Illustrated Journey to Coffeehouses in Wisconsin (and Beyond)
Jeff Hagen
Fall 2012

America’s Favorite Radio Station
WKRP in Cincinnati
Michael B. Kassel
Fall 2012

The Blue Plate Diner Cookbook
Tim Lloyd and James Novak, with Bakery Recipes by Sara Whalen
Fall 2012

Faithful Passages
American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844–1931
James Emmett Ryan
Fall 2012

Minnesota Lumberjack Songs
Irish and Scottish Music from the North Woods
Brian Miller
Spring 2012

When Pigs Could Fly and Bears Could Dance
A History of the Soviet Circus
Miriam Neirick
Spring 2012

Film and Genocide
Edited by Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli
Fall 2011

Graphic Subjects
Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels
Edited by Michael A. Chaney
Spring 2011

Tough as Nails
The Life and Films of Richard Brooks
Douglass K. Daniel
Spring 2011

Celluloid Activist
The Life and Times of Vito Russo
Michael Schiavi
Spring 2011

United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950
The Company Built by the Stars
Tino Balio
Spring 2009

United Artists, Volume 2, 1951–1978
The Company That Changed the Film Industry
Tino Balio
Spring 2009

Death in a Prairie House
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
William R. Drennan, As read by Jim Fleming on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter a Day ®
Spring 2009

Conjoined Twins in Black and White
The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton
Edited by Linda Frost
Spring 2009

In a Pickle
A Family Farm Story
Jerry Apps
Fall 2008

Crunch!
A History of the Great American Potato Chip
Dirk Burhans
Fall 2008

Purebred and Homegrown
America’s County Fairs
Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz
Fall 2008

Escape Artist
The Life and Films of John Sturges
Glenn Lovell
Fall 2008

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History
Walter Mirisch, Forewords by Sidney Poitier and Elmore Leonard
Spring 2008

Raising Hell for Justice
The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive
David R. Obey
Fall 2007

Cannibal Fictions
American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Jeff Berglund
Spring 2006

Profiles of Popular Culture
A Reader
Edited by Ray B. Browne
Spring 2005

Popular Culture Theory and Methodology
A Basic Introduction
Edited by Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz and Angela M. S. Nelson
Spring 2005

Rituals and Patterns in Children’s Lives
Edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson
Spring 2005

Dissecting Stephen King
From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism
Heidi Strengell
Spring 2005

Popular Witchcraft
Straight from the Witch’s Mouth
Jack Fritscher
Fall 2004

The Letters of Mina Harker
Dodie Bellamy, New foreword by Dennis Cooper
Fall 2004

Murder on the Reservation
American Indian Crime Fiction
Ray B. Browne
Spring 2004

Goddesses and Monsters
Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture
Jane Caputi
Spring 2004

Grace Notes for a Year
Stories of Hope, Humor and Hubris from the World of Classical Music
Norman Gilliland
Spring 2004

Remote
Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity
David Shields, New foreword by Phillip Lopate
Fall 2003

Mission Underway
The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967–2001
Edited, Revised, and Updated by Ray B. Browne
2002

Cracked Sidewalks and French Pastry
The Wit and Wisdom of Al McGuire
Tom Kertscher
Fall 2002

The Guide to United States Popular Culture
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne
2001

Ordinary Reactions To Extraordinary Events
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Arthur G. Neal
2001

Memory and Representation
Constructed Truths and Competing Realities
Edited by Dena Elisabeth Eber and Arthur G. Neal
2001

Sundae Best
A History of Soda Fountains
Anne Cooper Funderburg
2001

Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest
Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands
Edited by Steve Glassman and Maurice O’Sullivan
2001

I Was a Cold War Monster
Horror Films, Eroticism, and the Cold War Imagination
Cyndy Hendershot
2001

As American as Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie
Constructing Community in Contemporary American Horror Fiction
Linda J. Holland-Toll
2001

Anatomy of Murder
Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction
Carl D. Malmgren
2001

A Passion for Consumption
The Gothic Novel in America
Anna Sonser
2001

Grafting Helen
The Abduction of the Classical Past
Matthew Gumpert
Spring 2001

Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture
Edited by Michael T. Carroll and Eddie Tafoya
2000

The Mystery of Mysteries
Cultural Differences and Designs
Samuel Coale
2000

Performing Television
Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture
Elizabeth Klaver
2000

New Hard-Boiled Writers
1970s–1990s
LeRoy Lad Panek
2000

The Cowboy Hero and Its Audience
Popular Culture as Market Derived Art
Alf H. Walle
2000

Reel Rituals
Ritual Occasions from Baptisms to Funerals in Hollywood Films, 1945–1995
Parley Ann Boswell, Paul Loukides
1999

Pioneers in Popular Culture Studies
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden
1999

Romantic Conventions
Edited by Anne K. Kaler and Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek
1999

Diversity and Detective Fiction
Edited by Kathleen Gregory Klein
1999

Rhetorical Bodies
Edited by Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley
Fall 1999

Graphic Opinions
Editorial Cartoonists and Their Art
Edited by Jack Colldeweih and, Kalman Goldstein
1998

Victims or Villains
Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction
Malcolm J. Turnbull
1998

Coming after Oprah
Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show
Vicki Abt, Leonard Mustazza
1997

Leon Forrest
Introductions and Interpretations
John G. Cawelti
1997

Mutilating the Body
Identity in Blood and Ink
Kim Hewitt
1997

From Moonshine to Madison Avenue
A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series
Mark D. Howell
1997

Nancy Drew and Company
Culture, Gender, and Girls’ Series
Edited by Sherrie A. Inness
1997

Retrofitting Blade Runner
Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Edited by Judith B. Kerman
1997

Vision/Re-Vision
Adapting Contemporary American Fiction by Women to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1997

In the Zone
The Twilight World of Rod Serling
Peter Wolfe
1997

The Gothic World of Anne Rice
Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
1996

Moving On
The Heroines of Shirley Ann Grau, Anne Tyler, and Gail Godwin
Susan S. Kissel
1996

Preview 2001+
Popular Culture Studies in the Future
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick
1995

In the Beginning
First Novels in Mystery Series
Edited by Mary Jean DeMarr
1995

Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla
A History of American Ice Cream
Anne Cooper Funderburg
1995

Go! Fight! Win!
Cheerleading in American Culture
Mary Ellen Hanson
1995

Women Times Three
Writers, Detectives, Readers
Kathleen Gregory Klein, Editor
1995

The Wonder Team
The True Story of the Incomparable 1927 New York Yankees
Leo Trachtenberg
1995

The Cultures of Celebrations
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Michael T. Marsden
1994

Al Capp Remembered
Elliott Caplin
1994

Phony Culture
Confidence and Malaise in Contemporary America
James Combs
1994

Games in the Global Village
A 50-Nation Study of Entertainment Television
Anne Cooper-Chen
1994

Hunting and Fishing for Sport
Commerce, Controversy, Popular Culture
Richard Hummel
1994

Take Two
Adapting the Contemporary American Novel to Film
Edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack
1994

Eye on the Future
Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne
Edited by Marilyn F. Motz, John Nachbar, Michael Marsden, and Ronald Ambrosetti
1994

No One Knows Their Names
Screenwriters in Hollywood
Jorja Prover
1994

Dionysus in Literature
Essays on Literary Madness
Edited by Branimir M. Rieger
1994

You Know My Method
The Science of the Detective
J.K. Van Dover
1994

Continuities in Popular Culture
The Present in the Past and the Past in the Present and Future
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Ronald J. Ambrosetti
1993

Stewards of the House
The Detective Fiction of Jonathan Latimer
Bill Brubaker
1993

Dance of the Sleepwalkers
The Dance Marathon Fad
Frank M. Calabria
1993

The Terrible Fitzball
The Melodramatist of the Macabre
Larry Stephen Clifton
1993

Dress in American Culture
Edited by Patricia A. Cunningham and Susan Voso Lab
1993

All That Glitters
Country Music in America
Edited by George H. Lewis
1993

Martians and Misplaced Clues
The Life and Work of Fredric Brown
Jack Seabrook
1993

H. R. F. Keating
Post-Colonial Detection, A Critical Study
Meera Tamaya
1993

Communication and Women’s Friendships
Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life
Edited by Janet Doubler Ward and JoAnna Stephens Mink
1993

Alarms & Epitaphs
The Art of Eric Ambler
Peter Wolfe
1993

Ferris Wheels
An Illustrated History
Norman D. Anderson
1992

Rejuvenating the Humanities
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick
1992

Advertising and Popular Culture
Studies in Variety and Versatility
Sammy R. Danna
1992

Visions of War
World War II in Popular Literature and Culture
Edited by M. Paul Holsinger and Mary Anne Schofield
1992

Beyond the Stars 3
The Material World in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1992

Beyond the Stars 4
Locales in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1992

Popular Culture
An Introductory Text
Edited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause
1992

Live from Atlantic City
The Miss America Pageant Before, After, and In Spite of Television
A. R. Riverol
1992

Beyond Cheering and Bashing
New Perspectives on the Closing of the American Mind
Edited by James Seaton and William K. Buckley
1992

Popular Arthurian Traditions
Edited by Sally K. Slocum
1992

Digging into Popular Culture
Theories and Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology, and Other Fields
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne
1991

Polpop 2
Politics and Popular Culture in America Today
James Combs
1991

The Picara
From Hera to Fantasy Heroine
Anne K. Kaler
1991

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 5
Dangerous Horizons
Robert Sampson
1991

Marginal Conventions
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Social Deviance
Edited by Clinton R. Sanders
1991

Hardboiled in Hollywood
Five Black Mask Writers and the Movies
David Wilt
1991

The Sound of Light
A History of Gospel Music
Don Cusic
1990

John Dickson Carr
A Critical Study
S. T. Joshi
1990

Beyond the Stars 2
Plot Conventions in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1990

Probable Cause
Crime Fiction in America
Leroy Lad Panek
1990

Old Sleuth’s Freaky Female Detectives
(from the Dime Novels)
Garyn G. Roberts, Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne
1990

Cowboys and Caudillos
Frontier Ideology of the Americas
Tom R. Sullivan
1990

A Legend for the Legendary
The Origin of the Baseball Hall of Fame
James A. Vlasich
1990

Against Academia
The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement, 1967–1988
Ray B. Browne
1989

East of Samarinda
Carl Jacobi
Carl Jacobi, R. Dixon Smith
1989

Beyond the Stars 1
Stock Characters in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
1989

Deadly Excitements
Shadows and Phantoms
Robert D. Sampson
1989

American Popular Music: Readings From the Popular Press Volume I
The Nineteenth-Century Tin Pan Alley
Edited by Timothy E. Scheurer
1989

Cooking by the Book
Food in Literature and Culture
Edited by Mary Anne Schofield
1989

Two Guns From Harlem
The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes
Robert E. Skinner
1989

The Spirit of Australia
The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield
Ray B. Browne
1988

Symbiosis
Popular Culture and Other Fields
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Marshall W. Fishwick
1988

Landscape of Fear
Stephen King’s American Gothic
Tony Magistrale
1988

Search and Clear
Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War
Edited by William J. Searle
1988

Comic Crime
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
1987

The Incredible Scream Machine
A History of the Roller Coaster
Robert Cartmell
1987

Rock Eras
Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954–1984
Jim Curtis
1987

Necessary American Fictions
Popular Literature of the 1950s
William Darby
1987

The God Pumpers
Religion in the Electronic Age
Edited by Marshall W. Fishwick and Ray B. Browne
1987

The Gothic World of Stephen King
Landscape of Nightmares
Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
1987

In Search of the Paper Tiger
A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium
Gary Hoppenstand
1987

Children of the Series and How They Grew
or A Century of Heroines & Heroes, Romantic, Comic, Moral
Faye R. Kensinger
1987

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 3
From the Dark Side
Robert Sampson
1987

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 4
The Solvers
Robert Sampson
1987

Humor and Comedy in Puppetry
Celebration in Popular Culture
Edited by Dina Sherzer and Joel Sherzer
1987

Corridors of Deceit
The World of John le Carré
Peter Wolfe
1987

Cops and Constables
American and British Fictional Policemen
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier and George N. Dove
1986

Heroes and Humanities
Detective Fiction and Culture
Ray B. Browne
1986

Laws of Our Fathers
Popular Culture and the U.S. Constitution
Edited by Ray B. Browne and Glenn J. Browne
1986

A Cent a Story!
The Best from Ten Detective Aces
Garyn G. Roberts
1986

Private Eyes: One Hundred and One Knights
A Survey of American Detective Fiction 1922-1984
Robert A. Baker, Michael T. Nietzel
1985

The Boys from Grover Avenue
Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct Novels
George N. Dove
1985

More Tales of the Defective Detective in the Pulps
Gary Hoppenstand, Garyn G. Roberts, and Ray B. Browne
1985

Wrestling to Rasslin’
Ancient Sport to American Spectacle
Gerald W. Morton and George M. O’Brien
1985

Hollywood Troubleshooter
W. T. Ballard’s Bill Lennox Stories
Edited and Introduced by James L. Traylor
1985

Something More than Night
The Case of Raymond Chandler
Peter Wolfe
1985

Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
Edited by Earl F. Bargainnier
1984

Forbidden Fruits
Taboos and Tabooism in Culture
Edited by Ray B. Brown
1984

The Empire Strikes Out
Kurd Lasswitz, Hans Dominik, and the Development of German Science Fiction
William B. Fischer
1984

Henry L. Brunk and Brunk’s Comedians
Tent Repertoire Empire of the Southwest
Jerry L. Martin
1984

Dime Novel Roundup
Annotated Index, 1931–1981
Michael L. Cook
1983

Mystery Fanfare
A Composite Annotated Index to Mystery and Related Fanzines 1963–1981
Michael L. Cook
1983

The Defective Detective in the Pulps
Edited by Gary Hoppenstand and Ray B. Browne
1983

Yesterday’s Faces, Volume 1
Glory Figures
Robert Sampson
1983

Other Worlds
The Fantasy Genre
John H. Timmerman
1983

Ananda
Where Yoga Lives
John Ball
1982

Dr. Joe Bell
Model for Sherlock Holmes
Ely M. Liebow
1982

The Rescue and Romance
Popular Novels Before World War I
Diana Reep
1982

Custer Legends
Lawrence A. Frost
1981

Learning To See
Historical Perspectives on Modern Popular/Commercial Arts
Alan Gowans
1981

A Common Spring
Crime Novel and Classic
Nadya Aisenberg
1980

The Gentle Art of Murder
The Detective Fiction of Agatha Christie
Earl F. Bargainnier
1980

Seasoned Authors for a New Season
The Search for Standards in Popular Writing
Louis Filler
1980

The New Gods
Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art
Harold Schechter
1980

5000 Years of Popular Culture
Popular Culture before Printing
Edited by Fred E.H. Schroeder
1980

Watteau’s Shepherds
The Detective Novel in Britain, 1914–1940
Leroy Lad Panek
1979

Popular Abstracts
Ray B. Browne and Christopher Geist, Editors
1978

A Question of Quality
Popularity and Value in Modern Creative Writing
Louis Filler
1976

SF
The Other Side of Realism
Edited by Thomas D. Clareson
1971