Reviews
An extended, comprehensive, and documented argument that American popular culture provided more than just escapism. . . . An impressive work of seminal and meticulous scholarship., "A terrific overview of how we should study mass culture and why."-Susan J. Douglas, author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, "A very useful contribution to the study of social change at mid-century."--Michael Kammen, Journal of Social History, "Providing a fascinating read of mid-twentieth-century cultural productions as diverse as minstrel shows and nylon stockings, Smulyan makes visible the ways in which race, class, gender, nationhood, and consumption both emerge in and are developed through popular culture."-Jennifer Scanlon,Technology and Culture, "Providing a fascinating read of mid-twentieth-century cultural productions as diverse as minstrel shows and nylon stockings, Smulyan makes visible the ways in which race, class, gender, nationhood, and consumption both emerge in and are developed through popular culture."--Jennifer Scanlon, Technology and Culture, "An extended, comprehensive, and documented argument that American popular culture provided more than just escapism. . . . An impressive work of seminal and meticulous scholarship."--Midwest Book Review, "A terrific overview of how we should study mass culture and why."--Susan J. Douglas, author ofWhere the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, "An extended, comprehensive, and documented argument that American popular culture provided more than just escapism. . . . An impressive work of seminal and meticulous scholarship."-- Midwest Book Review, "An extended, comprehensive, and documented argument that American popular culture provided more than just escapism. . . . An impressive work of seminal and meticulous scholarship."- Midwest Book Review, "A very useful contribution to the study of social change at mid-century."-Michael Kammen, Journal of Social History, Providing a fascinating read of mid-twentieth-century cultural productions as diverse as minstrel shows and nylon stockings, Smulyan makes visible the ways in which race, class, gender, nationhood, and consumption both emerge in and are developed through popular culture., "A very useful contribution to the study of social change at mid-century."-Michael Kammen,Journal of Social History, "Providing a fascinating read of mid-twentieth-century cultural productions as diverse as minstrel shows and nylon stockings, Smulyan makes visible the ways in which race, class, gender, nationhood, and consumption both emerge in and are developed through popular culture."-Jennifer Scanlon, Technology and Culture, "A terrific overview of how we should study mass culture and why."--Susan J. Douglas, author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media
