Popular Culture Resources: Web Sites

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Suggested Web Sites:

Alterna Time - a collection of Timelines on the Web
Click on Popular Culture on the left site of the screen.

Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis - "The Website provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the United States, including the impact of that culture beyond national borders." (from the web site)

Popcultures.com - Sarah Zupko's cultural study center.

Popular Culture - links to resources published by the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.

Yahoo! Cultural Studies - Popular Culture

American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century - "The purpose of these pages is to present a series of web guides on the decades of the twentieth century. The pages are being prepared by the Reference Librarians of the Kingwood College Library". (from web site)

Ad*Access - a collection of advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress.

The Merchants of Cool - A Report on the Creators & Marketers of Popular Culture for Teenagers (PBS)

The Psychedelic '60's - Literary tradition and Social Change published by the University of Virginia library.

Miss America - American Experience (PBS)

Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series.

Law in Popular Culture Collection - "The average American's understanding of our legal system is both reflected and shaped by our popular culture. Best sellers, movie theaters, and prime time television have long been inundated with images of lawyers, whether as savior-like heroes, despicable villains or complex human beings. The goal of this collection is to provide as broad a picture as possible of the image of the lawyer in the United States and British Commonwealth." (from web site)

Music | Movies | Television

Media Studies - Popular Culture - a site maintained by the library reference department of the University of Virginia.

Jazz - a history of America's music by PBS

Spy-Fi Archives: 40 Years of TV and Movie Spy Fiction - "The Spy Fi Archives is an entertaining look at how Hollywood viewed intelligence work during the Cold War and beyond."

Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association