Time Passages : Collective Memory and American Popular Culture

Preface vii Culture and History Popular Culture: This Ain't No Sideshow 3(18) Precious and Communicable: History in an Age of Popular Culture 21(18) Popular Television The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television 39(38) Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Women's Narrative 77(22) Popular Music Against the Wind: Dialogic Aspects of Rock and Roll 99(34) Cruising Around the Historical Bloc: Postmodernism and Popular Music in East Lost Angeles 133(30) Popular Film No Way Out: Dialogue and Negotiation in Reel America 163(16) The New York Intellectuals: Samuel Fuller and Edgar Ulmer 179(32) Popular Narrative History, Myth, and Counter-Memory: Narrative and Desire in Popular Novels 211(22) Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans 233(24) History and the Future Buscando America (Looking for America): Collective Memory in an Age of Amnesia 257(18) Notes 275(20) Index 295