Author:
Huebel, Harry Russell, comp.
Imprint:Chicago : Rand McNally, [c1972]
Descriptionvi, 270 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Currier and Ives: a content analysis / Morton Cronin. - Uncle Remus and the malevolent rabbit / Bernard Wolfe. - The Wizard of Oz: parable on populism / Henry M. Littlefield. - America's manufactured villain--the baseball umpire / David Q. Voigt. - The "Tin Lizzie's" golden anniversary / F. Eugene Melder. - Wild Bird Hickok and his friends / James Thurber. - The serious funnies: adventure comics during the depression, 1929-1938 / William H. Young, Jr. - The gangster as tragic hero / Robert Warshow. - Food fun for the menfolk / James Thurber. - Who knows what evil lurks / Jim Harmon. - Remembrances of bop in New York, 1945-1950 / Gilbert Sorrentino. - As they used to say in the 1950's... / Howard Junker. - Mickey Spillane and his bloody hammer / Christopher La Farge. - The case of James Dean / Edgar Morin. - The fans / Jerry Hopkins. - Halloween and the mass child / Gregory P. Stone. - Pueblo baseball: a new use of old witchcraft / J.R. Fox. - Here's HUD in your eye / Larry McMurtrey. - Remember bomb shelters? / Roy Bongartz. - Love and sex in romance magazines / David Sonenschein. - Come alive, America / Charles and Bonnie Remsberg. - As the saints go marching by: modern jokelore concerning Mormons / Jan Harold Brunvand. - "Woodstock," a nation at war / Lawrence J. Desser. - The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag.
Bibliography Note:References (bibliographical: p. 267-270)
