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The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture 4 vols. M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall, Editors. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
This comprehensive four-volume encyclopedic set reveals the growth of what Inge published originally in 1978 as a "handbook" to the study of American popular culture. Because of the necessary inclusion of new items, second and third volumes were published in 1980 and 1981. Now, as recognition of the scope and need of popular culture subjects continues to grow, we have this four-volume set, and might well have a new and larger study before the entire subject is covered. All of the studies reveal how popular culture studies are becoming vital in our study of the world around us. For confirmation, all one has to do is look at...