Pop Culture and Other Sources for Background Research
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Barisic, Sonja.
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From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics Of Film, Gender and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
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Coontz, Stephanie, Maya Parson and Gabrielle Raley, Eds.
American Families: A Multicultural Reader. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Coontz, Stephanie.
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Davis, Susan G.
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Douglas, William.
Television Families: Is Something Wrong in Suburbia? Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2003.
Fiske, John.
Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Lofgren, Orvar.
On Holiday: A History of Vacationing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
May, Elaine Tyler.
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Meinig, D.W., ed.
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg.
Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. New York: The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 1988.
Nye, David E.
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Skolnick, Arlene.
Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
Stacey, Judith.
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Wilson, Alexander.
The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992.
Zukin, Sharon.
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.