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Media studies Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks The Beatles: Image and the Media Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television The Circle of Guilt The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Comic Book Culture: Fanboys and True Believers Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Johnson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar Comics as Culture The Comics Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist Athlete A Decade of Dark Humor: How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America Defining New Yorker Humor Defining Travel: Diverse Visions Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs The Historical Present: Uses and Abuses of the Past History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear Interviews with Betty Friedan Inventing New Orleans: Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Is There a Southern Political Tradition? Jazz in American Culture Ladies First: Women in Music Videos The Language of Comics: Word and Image Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975 The Mind of the South: Fifty Years Later Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism Obituaries in American Culture Odd-Egg Editor On Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South The Rise of David Duke The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter Sidelines Activist: Charles S. Johnson and the Struggle for Civil Rights Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution Spheres of Liberty: Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era Tupelo Man: The Life and Times of George McLean, a Most Peculiar Newspaper Publisher Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination World War I and the Cultures of Modernity A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press	Browse by Subject Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG Film Friday: Mary Wickes This is first installment of Film Friday, a new feature that will appear in this space on a semi-weekly basis and will highlight UPM's growing list of film studies books. Today's post focuses on the latest addition to the Hollywood Legends Series - Steve Taravella's: Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before. Moviegoers will remember Mary Wickes as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the (read more...)

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