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Herrmann, Andrew F., and Art Herbig. "Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://www.amzn.com/1498523927.

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Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as t

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Berglund, Jeffrey Duane. "Cannibal fictions in U.S. popular culture and literature /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935573771863.

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Kajikawa, Loren Yukio. "Centering the margins black music and American culture, 1980-2000 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1930277371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Gomes, Isabel Cristina de Oliveira. "American popular culture and the lifestyle of Portuguese teenagers." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2830.

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Mestrado em Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas<br>A globalização, proliferação dos média e a predominância da língua Inglesa no mundo permitem mergulhar numa viagem virtual e instantânea a diversas culturas, e com particular incidência na cultura Americana, o que necessariamente exporá os jovens a imagens e representações desta cultura. O presente estudo pretende olhar para este fenómeno através de um estudo aos jovens Portugueses. Tem como objectivos aferir as representações da cultura americana entre os jovens Portugueses e o modo como esta cultura é entendida pelos jovens, assim como o seu imp

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Matz, Duane A. Simms L. Moody. "Images of Indians in American popular culture since 1865." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8818716.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1988.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed September 9, 2005. Dissertation Committee: L. Moody Simms (chair), Edward L. Schapsmeier, W. Mark Wyman, Lawrence W. McBride, John R. McCarthy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 373-390) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Rodway, Cara. "Roadside romance : the American motel in postwar popular culture." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602561.

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Brigham, Ann Elizabeth. "Popular attractions: Tourism, heterosexuality, and sites of American culture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284560.

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"Popular Attractions: Tourism, Heterosexuality, and Sites of American Culture" investigates the serious business of pleasure, analyzing the circuits of desire that link stories of tourism and heterosexuality. I assert that the core impulses of tourism persistently shape American identity. Though the technology changes, the story perseveres: subjects leave the familiar behind in order to find themselves elsewhere. Quite simply, they ground themselves through movement. Tracing protagonists' upward and outward movements, I argue that the preservation of the American myth of mobility requires mult

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Tiongson, Antonio T. "Filipino youth cultural politics and DJ culture." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3199265.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 28, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-220).

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Tomlin, T. J. Wigger John H. "Almanacs and American popular theology, 1730-1820." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6763.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 29, 2010). Thesis advisor: Professor John Wigger. Includes bibliographical references.

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Schlueter, Jennifer. "Our lively arts American culture as theatrical culture,1922-1931 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1194035587.

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de, los Reyes Vanessa. "I Love Ricky: How Desi Arnaz Challenged American Popular Culture." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1209136075.

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Wegner, Kyle David. "Children of Aztlán : Mexican American popular culture and the post-Chicano aesthetic /." Connect to online resource, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1147180781&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Su, Genxing. "The seduction of culture: Representation and self-fashioning in Anglo-American popular culture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290379.

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One important means by which a society maintains and reproduces its dominant ideology is through cultural seductions. By creating in its viewers/readers a good feeling about themselves and the world they live in, popular culture entices individuals into approving of, supporting and embracing the dominant social, political and economic orders of our world. What Louis Althusser calls ideological "interpellation," therefore, is frequently a form of seduction involving the use of sweeteners that render certain values, beliefs and social positions enticing and attractive. Among such seducers are mo

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McCain, James. "Hawking cultural icons representations of Stephen Hawking in American popular culture, 1974-2004 /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010583.

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Nicholls, Matthew. "Interactions between contemporary American independent cinema and popular music culture." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367385/.

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In recent years, many American independent films have become increasingly engaged with popular music culture and have used various forms of pop music in their soundtracks to various effects. Disparate films from a variety of genres use different forms of popular music in different ways, however these negotiations with pop music and its cultural surroundings have one true implication: that the 'independentness' (or 'indieness') of these movies is informed, anchored and embellished by their relationships with their soundtracks and/or the representations of or positioning within wider popular mus

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Gervin, Kelly J. "Music and Environmentalism in Twenty-First Century American Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1494162797534902.

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McGee, Adam Michael. "Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11350.

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I analyze the historical and cultural processes by which American racism is reproduced, approaching the issue through the lens of "imagined voodoo" (as distinct from Haitian Vodou). I posit that the American Marine occupation of Haiti (1915-34) was crucial in shaping the American racial imaginary. In film, television, and literature, imagined voodoo continues to serve as an outlet for white racist anxieties. Because it is usually found in low-brow entertainment (like horror) and rarely mentions race explicitly, voodoo is able to evade critique, disseminating racism within a culture that is

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Kruse, Daniel R. "Tucson's Zoom Records and Late-1950s American Urban Popular Culture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/268475.

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The marketing and distribution of pre-recorded music for sale and public consumption is a cultural development as profound as any in the twentieth-century musical world. It is especially relevant to late-1950s American rock and roll, in terms of the music's capture in the rapidly-evolving environment of the recording studio, its release into the marketplace via independent record labels, and its enthusiastic embrace by the burgeoning youth culture of the era. Within this multi-dimensional context, Zoom Records, a tiny, independent record label, was born in Tucson, Arizona. A unique convergence

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Datiles, M. J. "The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) in American popular culture." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1529323/.

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The ancient account of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) that has become canonical for both scholars and filmmakers is found in Book VII of Herodotus’ The Histories. The account is a significant source that has been cited as the chief historical text for the cinematic renditions of the battle since its first celluloid appearance in 1962. However, the reproduction of history into film has often carried with it an implied value system that involves a preference for aesthetics over accuracy, audience expectation and satisfaction over literal historical authenticity as emerges in this thesis’ ass

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Ellis, Aimé Jero. "The "bad nigger" in contemporary Black popular culture : 1940 to the present /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Rainey, James Edward. "Blurring Boundaries: The Rorschach Idea in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626549.

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Mundey, Lisa M. "Images of the Armed Forces in American popular culture, 1945-1970 /." Search for this dissertation online, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.

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Vest, Jacques. "Making Authenticity: Polk Miller and the Evolution Of American Popular Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2303.

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This thesis examines the life and musical career of James "Polk" Miller of Richmond Virginia, a Confederate veteran, and successful pharmacist. Miller claimed to offer the only authentic version of antebellum slave music, and was renowned as a convincing "negro delineator." In his focus on race, performance, and authenticity, Miller straddled a number of cultural currents linking him to his nineteenth century predecessors as well as the cultural milieu of the twentieth century. About the turn of the century, he added a black quartet to his act in order to more fully capture his conception o

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Call, Steven Charles. "A people's air force: Air power and American popular culture, 1945-1965 /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487944660929528.

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Define, Lynn Dorsey. "Popular Culture, Thomas Beer, and the Making of "The Sound and the Fury"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625894.

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Schlueter, Jennifer. "Our lively arts: American culture as theatrical culture,1922-1931." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1194035587.

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Sullivan, Rebecca. "Revolution in the convent : women religious and American popular culture, 1950-1971." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ55383.pdf.

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Reiley, Amy. "Revolution! Revolution! : feast, famine and general copulation in modern American popular culture /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr3621.pdf.

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Borrero, Brittni M. "Faded Glory: Captain America and the Wilted American Dream." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334586489.

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Holdzkom, Marianne. "Parody and Pastiche: Images of the American Revolution in Popular Culture, 1765-1820." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392116147.

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Harris, John Rogers. "The performance of black masculinity in contemporary black drama." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054742668.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 233 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Stratos E. Constantinidis, Dept. of Theatre. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-233).

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Basham, Cortney S. "Hal Lindsey's The Late, Great Planet Earth and the Rise of Popular Premillennialism in the 1970s." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1205.

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How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book The Late, Great Planet Earth. LGPE sold more copies than any other non-fiction book in the 1970s and greatly aided the mainstreaming of “end-times” ideas like the Antichrist, nuclear holocaust, the Rapture, and various other concepts connected with popular end-times thought. These ideas stem from a specific strain of late-nineteenth century Biblical interpret

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Tait, Lisa Olsen. "Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates and the Cultural Work of Home Literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1998. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTNZ,25499.

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Rich, Danielle Leigh. "Global Fandom: The Circulation of Japanese Popular Culture in the U.S." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4905.

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This dissertation is a case study of the dissemination and circulation of Japanese popular cultures in the U.S., specifically focusing on the collective reception practices of individuals who identify as fans of Japanese animation, comic books, and video games. The key questions driving this project are: what difference does it make that young Americans are consuming popular cultures that are 1) international in origin and 2) specifically Japanese in origin? To answer these questions I carried out ethnographic research - s

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Shufelt, Catherine Armetta. ""Something wicked this way comes" constructing the witch in contemporary American popular culture /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194289705.

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Dabbs, Ashlie C. "The Invisibility of “Second Sight”: Double Consciousness in American Literature and Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1319390310.

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Fredwest, Janice M. "Popular Library: Rethinking the Cultural Relevancy of the American Public Library." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277140389.

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Brune, Jeffrey A. "Industrializing American culture : heartland radicals, Midwestern migration, and the Chicago Renaissance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10453.

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Selby, Shawn M. "Congress, Culture and Capitalism: Congressional Hearings into Cultural Regulation, 1953-1967." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1212766295.

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Poulson-Bryant, Scott. "Everybody Is a Star!: Uplift, Citizenship, and the Cross-Racial Politics of 1970s U.S. Popular Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493340.

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“Everybody is a Star: Uplift, Citizenship and the Cross-Racial Politics of 1970s U.S. Popular Culture,” examines the ways in which popular culture in the mid-1970s operated as a site of citizenship formation for marginalized subjects, particularly African Americans, in the decade after the Civil Rights advances of the 1960s. Historically, the cultural production of black people in the United States has occupied a curious position, cohering as both a foundation of and marginal to the larger narrative of American popular culture. As a result of that positioning, African American popular cultur

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Herbig, Art, A. Watson, Andrew F. Herrmann, and A. Tyma. "The Creation of Profs Do Pop!: A Critical Examination of Popular Culture Communities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/790.

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de, los Reyes Vanessa. "From Conformity to Protest: The Evolution of Latinos in American Popular Culture, 1930s-1980s." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1505205872234436.

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Thomas, Quincy D. "Lycra, Legs, and Legitimacy: Performances of Feminine Power in Twentieth Century American Popular Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1521852471021414.

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Francois, Marie Eileen 1963. "When pawnshops talk: Popular credit and material culture in Mexico City, 1775-1916." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282621.

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This dissertation examines popular credit and material culture in Mexico City in the "long" nineteenth century. It considers the social relationships that constituted the pawning process, the development of pawning businesses, and the regulatory role of the state. The focus is on three sets of people--clients of pawning services, pawnbrokers, and state agents--as well as the material goods used to secure loans. For city residents, daily life was cash poor, a phenomenon that crossed class lines. Middle-class housekeepers, merchants and artisans as well as lower-class homemakers, carpenters and

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Whitehead, Aaron T. "The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America." TopSCHOLAR®, 2015. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1469.

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In the autumn of 1921, silent film comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of a model and actress named Virginia Rappé. The ensuing scandal created a firestorm of controversy not just around Arbuckle but the entire motion picture industry. Religious and moral reformers seized upon the scandal to decry the decline of “traditional” moral values taking place throughout American society in the aftermath of World War I. The scandal created a common objective for an anti-film coalition representing diverse social and religious groups, all dedicated to bringing about cha

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Lea, Carolyn. "Beyond Celebration: A Call for Rethinking Cultural Studies." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1194285318.

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Taylor, Tomaro I. "Longshoremen's Negotiation of Masculinity and the Middle Class in 1950s Popular Culture." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6592.

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This thesis considers mid-20th century portrayals of working-class longshoremen’s masculinity within the context of emerging middle-class gender constructions. I argue that although popular culture presents a roughly standardized depiction of longshoremen as “manly men,” these portrayals are significantly nuanced to demonstrate the difficulties working-class men faced as they attempted to navigate socio-cultural and socio-economic shifts related to class and the performance of their male gender. Specifically, I consider depictions of longshoremen’s disruptive masculinity, male identity formati

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Lee, R. Lena. ""Becoming an American princess?" the interpretations of American popular culture by young Korean girls living in the United States /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215195.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1216. Advisers: Jesse H. Goodman; Mary B. McMullen. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 14, 2007)."

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Boyd, Elizabeth Bronwyn. "Southern beauty : performing femininity in an American region /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Konkle, Amanda. "MARILYN MONROE’S STAR CANON: POSTWAR AMERICAN CULTURE AND THE SEMIOTICS OF STARDOM." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/28.

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Although Marilyn Monroe was one of the most famous American film stars, and a monumental cultural figure, her film work has been studied far less than her biography. Applying C.S. Peirce’s semiotic categories of icon, index, and symbol, this research explains how Monroe acquired meaning as an actress: Monroe was a powerful, but simplified, public image (an icon); an indicator of a particular historical and social context (an index); and an embodiment of significant cultural debates (a symbol). Analyzing Monroe as an icon reveals how her personal life, which contradicted her official publicity

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