TV and Film Resources
McHenry Library Film Guide and Popular Culture Guide (includes TV)
McHenry TV
and Film collection (searchable)
TV popular culture site
Film popular culture site
Internet Movie Database. A very comprehensive resource of film information and reviews.
General search for popular culture books at UCSC (check out the tag cloud on the right to refine search)
Books on women and popular culture
Masculinity in popular culture
Bibliographies:
General/index (includes gender and ethnicity)
Gangster, Detective, Crime, Mystery films
Teen Movies bibliography
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Television
Ref PN1992.18 E53 2004
Four volumes from the Museum of Broadcast Communications that present the innovative
and the quintessential in television programming, in the US (primarily) and
throughout the English-speaking world, including casts, programming times and
dates, and bibliographies for further research. Also surveys important personalities,
networks, historical and technological developments, social issues, and the
state of the medium in countries throughout the world.
History of the Mass Media in the
United States
Ref P92 U5 H55 1998
In short entries with references for further reading, considers the entire history
of all forms of mass media in the US, from colonial times to the present. Books,
broadcasting, the press, motion pictures, magazines, photography, advertising,
public relations, and more are each examined by a series of articles.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher has excellent information on issues like violence in media
Film Quarterly PN1993 H457
Journal of Popular Culture is an excellent resource
Journal
of Film and Video
PN1993 J68
Saple Student Papers:
Most recent and best in terms of analysis and social significance: 300
Student paper on Bobba Fett (Star Wars)
Student paper on Scream (with a bit of cultural analysis)
Student paper on The Simpsons
Books
American Nerd : The Story
Of My People / Benjamin Nugent
New York : Scribner, 2008
McH Stacks BF412 .N84 2008
McH Stacks - P94.P63 1985
Blame Canada! : South
Park And Popular Culture / Toni Johnson-Woods
New York : Continuum, 2007
McH Stacks PN1992.77.S665
J64 2007
The Death Of The Grown-Up
: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
/ Diana West
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007
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Location Call Number Status
McH Stacks HN59 .W36 2007
Nerds : Who They Are And Why We Need More Of Them
/ David Anderegg
New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2007
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c2007
BOOKS
Location Call Number Status
McH Stacks LC3993.9 .A84 2007
The Japanification of
children's popular culture : from godzilla to miyazaki / edited
by Mark I. West
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009
Location Call Number Status
McH Stacks HQ792.U56 J37 2009
Making Camp : Rhetorics Of Transgression In U.S. Popular Culture
/ Helene A. Shugart And Catherine Egley Waggoner
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008
McH Stacks E169.12 .S5154 2008
Tooning In : Essays On Popular Culture And Education
/ Cameron White And Trenia Walker
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
McH Stacks LC191.4 .W55 2008
Table of Contents
Tooning In
The Spiderman Curriculum
Critical Media Literacy
American Idiots
Reading History through Film
Moral Panics: Schools and the Battle for Anime
Global Toppings
Kidstory
Digging Dead Like Me
Giving a Hoot about Holes
Films for Our Time: Using the Three Version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Message in the Music
Fight Club and the Disneyfication of Manhood
The Dark Side of Food
Toys, Play and Schooling
Graphic Novels in the Classroom
Bibliography
These are just some random examples,
use the General
search for popular culture books at UCSC (check out the tag cloud on the
right to refine search) to find something specific to your topic.