CULTURAL OBJECTS VIII: 2001-2002
Editor's Introduction
FEATURES
Kelleigh Bannen Chevrolet: Selling America's Car
Michael Bishop, High Performance: Ethnographic Sketches of Poetics, Performance, and Honor in a Southern Garage.
Michael Bishop,
Songs of the Self, Ian McKaye and the Straight Edge Aesthetic
Keonna Carter, John Ford, Gary Cooper and TuPac:
Gangsta Rap and the Wild Wild West
Lauren Cousar,
The Phenomenon of the Squared Circle: Professional Wrestling in America and Mexico
Amy Joy Dumlao, Packaged Play: America's Monopoly Game
Jessica Garrison, Apple Pie and Paranoia: Atomic Anxiety and American Ideals in the Works of Robert A. Heinlein
Katie Hamlin,
The Birth of a Star: Product Placement Creating the Consumer
David Henning,
Tooning in American Culture: Saturday Morning Cartoons and their Significance
Chu Hwang, New Deal, New Media: Political Film and Radio in the 1930s.
Lisa Jensen,
The American Nightmare: Film Noir and the PostWar Era
Earthen Johnson, Sex and the City
Will Lucas,
'Scuse me While I do the Boogalo':
Dance Craze and the American Consciousness
Atima Omara-Alwala,
Joseph P. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Micks on the Make to American Royalty
Anne Riley
Jean Shepherd: Repackaging the Past for the Modern Culture
Natalie Shonka,
Remaking the American Image: Fortune Magazine and the Depression Crisis
DISPLAYS
Kelleigh Bannen, Civil War Music: The Singin'est War
Earthen Johnson and Kelleigh Bannen,
The Fireside Chats
Natalie Shonka, Amy Dumlao, and Michael Bishop,
Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930s
Chu Hwang, Lauren Cousar, and Jessica Garrison,
Singular Visions: Folk Art from Charlottesville Collections
Katie Hamlin, David Henning, and Lisa Jensen,
Screwball Comedy
Bryan Pettit, Anne Riley, and Will Lucas
The Cavalcade of America: Examining the Myth and Reality of Hero Worship in American Radio
Keonna Carter and Atima Omara-Amala,
W.E.B. DuBois: Moving Beyond the Veil
Feature: The American West
Erin Barnes (AS 02), The Evolution of an Ecosystem: The Grand Coulee Dam 1801-2001
David Hendrick (AS 02), Writing the West: The Role of the Newspaper in Taming the Frontier
Adam Reno (AS 02), Bullets and Ballots: The Western Image in American Political Campaigns
Devan Kirk (AS 02), Mormon Women and the American West
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