Special Issue: Popular Culture

Contents

Guest-Editors: ULLA HASELSTEIN, BERNDT OSTENDORF, PETER SCHNECK (Muenchen)

Articles

ULLA HASELSTEIN Popular Culture: Introduction

BERNDT OSTENDORF

PETER SCHNECK

BERNDT OSTENDORF
Why Is American Popular Culture So Popular? A View from Europe

SHERRY LINKON
Class Confusions: American Media Discourse About Class JOHN RUSSO

WINFRIED FLUCK
Crime, Guilt, and Subjectivity in Film Noir

PETER SCHNECK
Image Fictions: Literature, Television, and the End(s) of Irony

HANJO BERRESSEM
"Think Globally, But Better to Act Elvisly": Elvis and El Vez

REINHOLD WAGNLEITNER
"No Commodity Is Quite So Strange As This Thing Called Cultural Exchange": The Foreign Politics of American Pop Culture Hegemony

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Reviews

NICOLAS WITSCHI
Petra Schindler-Carter, Vintage Snapshots: The Fabrication of a Nation in the W. P. A. Guide Series

KURT OPITZ
Jan Gretlund Nordby and Karl-Heinz Westarp, The Late Novels of Eudora Welty

KURT OPITZ
Jan Gretlund Nordby, Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial and Existential South

NICOLE SOOST
Astrid Franke, Keys to Controversies: Stereotypes in Modern American Novels

CORDULA LEMKE
Lynne Segal, Why Feminism? Gender, Psychology, Politics

LUTZ WALTHERRobert K. Wallace, Frank Stella's Moby-Dick Series: Words and Shapes

PETR ROeSEL
Dieter Kranz und Paul Tiedemann, Internet fuer Anglisten: Eine Praxisorientierte Einfuehrung