Book Reviews

American Comic Strip Collections . 1884–1939: The Revolutionary Era . Denis Gifford The Great American Comic Strip: One Hundred Years of Cartoon Art . Judith O'Sullivan. Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass‐observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s . Gary Cross A “Brand” New Language: Commercial Influences in Literature and Culture . Monroe Friedman. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos . Samuel M. Steward. The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society . Sut Jhally. Journal of Popular Culture Association of JapanPropaganda: A Pluralistic Perspective . Ted J. Smith C.G. Jung and the Humanities: Toward a Hermeneutics of Culture . Karin Barnaby and Pellegrino D'Acierno Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein From the Nineteenth Century to the Present . Prison Life Among the Rebels: Recollections of a Union Chaplain . Edward D. Jervey The Electronic Golden Calf: Images, Religion and the Making of Meaning . Gregor T. Goethals. The Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life: A Fieldguide and Sourcebook . George H. Schoemaker Le Monde prive des Ouvriers. Hommes et Femmes du Nord . Oliver Schwartz. For Democracy, Workers and God: Labor Song‐Poems and Labor Protest , 1865–95. Clark D. Halker. Popular Leisure in the Lake Counties . Lyn Murfin. Oxford Guide to Card Games . David Parlett. Place Images in Media: Portrayal, Exfierience, and Meaning . Leo Zonn The Casting Couch and Other Front Row Seats: Women in Films of the 1970s and 1980s . Marsha McCreadie. Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale , 1885–1985. Andrew Gulliford. The Politics of the Textbook . Michael W. Apple and Linda K. Christian‐Smith. Explorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from Ciné‐Tracts . Ron Burnett China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality . Steven W. Mosher. The Comics . 1947. Coulton Waugh. Introd. M. Thomas Inge. The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years . Mary Ann Watson. Body Food , Soul Food: The American Restaurant Then and Now . Richard Pillsbury. The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture . Don LePan. Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in its Practice , Essays on its Theory . Ronald L. Grimes. An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction . Thomas J. Roberts. Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut . Lawrence R. Broer. Popular Culture Review ——“A Flower Sprouts in the Desert”