Popular Culture, Subculture, and Cultural Studies
SELECTED SUBJECT HEADINGS FOR SEARCHING ORBIS
Popular Culture
- Popular culture
- Popular culture--France
- Popular culture--Political aspects
- Popular culture--Philosophy
- Spain--Civilization
- African Americans in popular culture
- Crime in popular culture
- Gays in popular culture
- Masculinity in popular culture
- Sex in popular culture
- Women in popular culture
- Food in popular culture
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Subcultures
- Subculture
- Goth culture subculture
- Punk culture
- Rave culture
- Counterculture
FOR Cultural Studies USE
- Culture--Study and teaching
- Popular culture--Study and teaching
SEE ALSO Folklore
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Selected Reference Resources
American popular culture: a historical bibliography. Arthur Frank
Wertheim, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio Information Services,
1984.
SML, Reference Z5961 U5 +A53 1984
Department and academic program information
only.
Online directory/encyclopedia on various subjects in
cultural and media studies, including term definitions, biographical entries,
and media news.
This page provides links for various topics and
activities, as well as information on joining the discussion list, which has
more than 900 subscribers from over 30 different countries.
Explanations and examples of "culture jamming."
Mark Dery, who popularized the term,
defines culture jamming as "media hacking, information warfare, terror-art, and
guerrilla semiotics, all in one." Well-known culture jammers include
Adbusters,
®™ark, and
eToy (
not the defunct online toy store!).
For more examples, see the Google directory listed below.
An access point for various resources on cultural
studies.
This guide concentrates on cultural theory: texts by and
about cultural theorists and texts on some of the main areas of current study,
for example, postmodernism, gender, identity, cyberculture, Black and
postcolonial studies. Maintained by the London Institute, a federation of five
London colleges for art & design and related activities.
Directory of popular culture collections. Edited by Christopher D.
Geist ... [et al.]. Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, 1989.
SML, Reference E169.1 D54 1989
Encyclopedia of
contemporary American culture. Edited by Gary W. McDonogh, Robert Gregg, and
Cindy H. Wong. London; New York: Routledge, 2001.
SML, Reference E169.12 E49X 2001
Encyclopedia of
contemporary British culture. Edited by Peter Childs and Mike Storry.
London; New York: Routledge, 1999.
SML, Reference DA589.4 E53X 1999
Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture. Edited by Alex Hughes
and Keith Reader. London; New York: Routledge, 1998.
SML, Reference DC33.7 E53X 1998
Encyclopedia of contemporary German culture. Edited by John
Sandford. London; New York: Routledge, 1999.
SML, Reference DD290.26 E53X 1999
Encyclopedia of contemporary Italian culture. Edited by Gino
Moliterno. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
SML, Reference DG450 E53X 2000
Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture. Edited by Sandra
Buckley. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
SML, Reference DS822.5 E516X 2002
Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures.
Edited by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez and Ana M. Lopez. New York:
Routledge, 2000.
SML, Reference F1406 E5155 2000
Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture. Edited by Eamonn
Rodgers; honorary assistant editor, Valerie Rogers. New York: Routledge,
1999.
SML, Reference DP233.5 E63X 1999
Fishburn, Katherine. Women in popular culture: a reference guide.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
SML, Reference HQ1426 F685
The guide to United States popular culture. Edited by Ray B. Browne
and Pat Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
2001.
SML, Reference E169.1 +D399X 2001
Directory of sites for the producers of spoofs, parodies,
hoaxes, subversions and cultural counter-offensives. See also the Culture
Jammer's Encyclopedia listed above.
Handbook of American popular culture. Edited by M. Thomas Inge. 2nd
ed., rev. and enlarged. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
CCL, Stacks E169.1 H2643 1989
SML, Reference E169.1 H2643 1989
Handbook of French popular culture. Edited by Pierre L. Horn. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
SML, Reference DC33.7 H36 1991
Hoffmann, Frank W. American popular culture: a guide to the reference
literature. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
SML, Reference Z1361 C6 H64X 1995
Japanese popular culture site, with resources on anime,
manga, games, and music/film.
Landrum, Larry N. American popular culture: a guide to information
sources. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982.
SML, Reference Z1361 C6 L28 1982
Includes links to journals, articles, theorist
information, bibliographies and other resources. The site is associated with
PopMatters, "the magazine of global culture."
Includes links on circuses, food, TV, film, comics,
music, and other subjects.
Link list last updated in Nov. 1998.
Pruett, Barbara. Popular Entertainment Research: How to do it and how to
use it. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
SML, Reference PN1576 P78X 1992
An online journal emphasizing the use of interative
multimedia presentations in scholarship.
A directory for articles, bibliographies, journals,
organizations, research centers and more, produced by SOSIG (the Social Science
Information Gateway). This page is to the World list, sorted by resource type;
one can also limit it to Eorope or the UK, and sort alphabetically.
St. James encyclopedia of popular culture. Edited by Tom Pendergast
and Sara Pendergast. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000.
SML, Reference E169.1 +S764 2000
Stern, Jane. Jane & Michael Stern's encyclopedia of pop culture: an
A to Z guide of who's who and what's what, from aerobics and bubble gum to Vally
of the Dolls and Moon Unit Zappa. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers,
1992.
SML, Stacks E169.12 S835X 1992 (LC)
Thorne, Tony. Fads, fashions & cults: from Acid House to zoot
suit--via existentialism and political correctness--the definitive guide to
(post-) modern culture. London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
SML, Stacks GN406 T46 1993 (LC)
Twentieth-century American cultural theorists. Edited by Paul
Hansom. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.
SML, Reference PN451 +D53 246
An exhibit on the art, science, and history of video
games.
Includes links on cyberculture, critical theory, media
theory, popular/mass cultural studies, postcolonial studies, postmodernism,
journals & zines, newsgroups and other resources.
War and American popular culture: a historical encyclopedia. Edited
by M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, 1999.
SML, Reference E181 W26X 1999
This site focuses on the critical analysis of popular
culture in the United States, including its international impact. The site
emphasizes issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural
imperialism and censorship, as shaped by and reflected in mass media, fashion,
sports, and other areas. There are links to online articles and specialized
sites, plus bibliographies.
Wilmeth, Don B. The language of American popular entertainment: a
glossary of argot, slang, and terminology. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1981.
SML, Reference PN1579
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Last modified Fri, 01 Mar 2002. Copyright ©
Yale University
Library.
Comments to Tobin Nellhaus
(tobin.nellhaus@yale.edu), Librarian for Drama, Film and Theater Studies.
Washington State
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