14 Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture

14 Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture is a collection of interviews with some of the most fascinating researchers and writers in American Studies. Robert Allen, Arthur Asa Berger, Ray Browne, Paul Cantor, Floyd Cheung, Craig Detweiler, Marshall Fishwick, Mitchell K. Hall, E. Ann Kaplan, Tracey Laird, George Lipsitz, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Peter Rollins, and Iain Topliss take us on a journey through the history of popular culture studies and such cultural subjects as soap operas, shopping, television, film, religion, sports, war, motherhood, music, and comics.