The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. I. introduction
5. The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies 3
6. Defining Popular Culture 26
7. II. self
8. Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You’d Be Home 47
9. Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past 66
10. Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media 88
11. “Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?” Star Trek’s Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics 105
12. The Empress’s New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture 122
13. “My Beautiful Wickedness”: The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy 138
14. III. Maker
15. “Ceci N’est Pas une Jeune Fille”: Videocams, Representation, and “Othering” in the Worlds of Teenage Girls 162
16. “No Matter How Small”: The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss 187
17. An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net 209
18. “I’m a Loser Baby”: Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity 227
19. IV. Performance
20. “Anyone Can Do It”: Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars 254
21. Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance 270
22. Mae West’s Maids: Race, “Authenticity,” and the Discourse of Camp 287
23. “They Dig Her Message”: Opera, Television, and the Black Diva 300
24. How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism—and Tallulah Bankhead’s Phallus 316
25. V. Taste
26. “It Will Get a Terrific Laugh”: On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor 343
27. The Sound of Disaffection 357
28. Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon 376
29. “Racial Cross-Dressing” in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife 388
30. The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia’s New York 415
31. Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston’s Combat Zone 430
32. VI. Change
33. On Thrifting 459
34. Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century 472
35. Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism 487
36. The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom 503
37. Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett 517
38. VII. Home
39. “The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know”: Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey 539
40. Finding One’s Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity 556
41. As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other 566
42. Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France 589
43. Narrativizing Cyber-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery 605
44. Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies 622
45. VIII. emotion
46. “Ain’t I de One Everybody Come to See?!” Popular Memories of Uncle Tom’s Cabin 650
47. Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women’s Power 670
48. “Have You Seen This Child?” From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abıˆme 689
49. Introducing Horror 700
50. About the Contributors 721
51. Name Index 733