Front cover image for Marginal conventions : popular culture, mass media, and social deviance

Marginal conventions : popular culture, mass media, and social deviance

Print Book, English, ©1990
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio, ©1990
183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780879724894, 9780879724900, 0879724897, 0879724900
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'A lot of people like it' : the relationship between deviance and popular culture / Clinton R. Sanders
Comedy and deviance : the Fatty Arbuckle case / Jerry M. Lewis, assisted by Linda Powell
Claims-making, quasi-theories, and the social construction of the rock 'n' roll menace / Stephen L. Markson
Selling the dancer : client/dancer interaction in modern taxi-dancing / Carrie Stern
Turning vices into virtues : the dignifying accounts of gun avocationists / Barbara Stenross
Powerlessness in adolescence : exploiting heavy metal listeners / Bruce K. Friesen
Warning : passion can be hazardous to your health : the portrayal of AIDS on broadcast series television / Rod Carveth
Decoding the mass media and terrorism connection : militant extremism as systemic and symbiotic processes / Russell F. Farnen, assisted by Marek Payerhin. Fantastic outsiders : villains and deviants in animated cartoons / Priscilla Kiehnle Warner
Acting like cops : the social reality of crime and law on TV police dramas / B. Kieth Crew
Media murder and mayhem : violence on network television / Eleanor Lyon
Moralizing resentment : The Morton Downey, Jr. Show and conservative populism / Jon D. Cruz