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Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies examines how cultural practices relate to everyday life, history, structures of power, affect, ideology, economy, politics, knowledge, technology, and the environment
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Psychology of Popular Media
A scholarly journal dedicated to publishing empirical research and papers on how popular culture and general media influence individual, group, and system behavior.
Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture
A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms.
Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture
A peer-reviewed journal discussing innovative scholarship in all aspects of fashion and popular culture relating to design, textiles, production, promotion, consumption and appearance-related products and services.

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Popular Culture as Historical Text: Using Mass Media to Teach American History
The article discusses how popular culture resources such as motion pictures, music, and television programs can be used to teach American history in a higher education setting.
“A Breath from Home”: Soldier Entertainment and the Nationalist Politics of Pop Culture during World War II
During World War II, USO Camp Shows provided entertainment to American soldiers to boost morale and depict the home for which the troops were fighting. This article uses this under-explored cultural formation to analyze the nationalist politics of popular culture during World War II.
“Everything of interest in the late Pine Ridge war are held by us for sale”: popular culture and Wounded Knee
The writer discusses popular representations of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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She considers images and narratives of the photographer George Trager, newspaper reporter William Fitch Kelley, and dime novelist Francis Dougherty, as well as the participation of popular entertainer William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody. She contends that these popular depictions embodied solutions to the pressing social and political problem of integrating western Indians into an emerging and stratified social order and that they articulated their visions within the language of incorporation, a language of order, control, civilization, and education. She concludes that popular culture utilized the technology of communication to support the logic of war and, working with the military, justified the incorporation of the Indians into American national culture and society.
“We Didn’t Have Adventures Like That”: The Lure of Adventure Stories and Courageous Females for Girls Growing Up in the United States During the Mid-20th Century
Based on oral history interviews conducted with 30 women born in the United States in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, this project presents women’s memories of their girlhood relationship to popular media and culture.
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Specifically, they told us about a preference for adventure stories including those of adventurous and/or strong real-life females. We conclude with a discussion of how these findings may reflect the social-cultural constraints placed on girls growing up at that time such that adventure stories enabled them to live vicariously and to negotiate a future identity in which they too could lead lives of daring and adventure.
The Moment of the Novel and the Rise of Film Culture
The article discusses the relationship between American motion pictures and fiction in U.S. popular culture from the mid 1940s through the early 1960s.
The South and Mass Culture
The writer discusses the South and its representation in mass culture from the late 19th century to the present.

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