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The mix of ideals and absurdity in alternative futures and fantasy realms prompts fans to imagine their own alternatives.

Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a "baby automatic," a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news, with the likes of Ring Lardner and Walter Lippman writing about her exploits for enthralled readers. The Bobbed Haired Bandit brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty, of Prohibition and class conflict. With her husband Ed at her sid

America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters. By Ruy Teixeira AND Joel Rogers. One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy. By Thomas Frank.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: -- Part I. How Do We Imagine a Better World -- 1 Rebel Yell: The Metapolitics of Equality and Diversity in Disney's Star Wars -- 2 The Hunger Games and the Dystopian Imagination -- 3 Spinning H. P. Lovecraft: A Villain or Hero of Our Times -- 4 Family Sitcoms' Political Front -- 5 "To Hell with Dreams": Resisting Controlling Narratives through Oscar Season -- Part II. How Do We Imagine the Process of Change -- 6 Imagining Intersectionality: -- 7 Code for What -- 8 Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black Resistance and Civic Imagination through Alternate Reality Gameplay -- 9 Everyone Wants Peace? -- Part III. How Do We Imagine Ourselves as Civic Agents -- 10 Learning to Imagine Better: -- 11 Black Girls Are from the Future: -- 12 "Dance to the Distortion": -- 13 Changing the Future by Performing the Past: -- 14 Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d: -- 15 Reimagining the Arab Spring: From Limitation to Creativity -- 16 DIY VR: -- Part IV. How Do We Forge Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own -- 17 Training Activists to Be Fans: -- 18 Tonight, in This Very Ring . . . Trump vs. the Media: -- 19 Ms. Marvel Punches Back: -- 20 For the Horde: -- 21 Communal Matters and Scientific Facts: -- 22 Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service -- Part V. How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community -- 23 Moving to a Bollywood Beat, "Born in the USA" Goes My Indian Heart? -- 24 "Our" Hamilton: -- 25 Participatory Action in Humans of New York -- 26 A Vision for Black Lives in the Black Radical Tradition -- Part VI. How Do We Bring an Imaginative Dimension to Our Real-World Spaces and Places -- 27 "Without My City, Where Is My Past?" -- 28 Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South -- 29 Tzina: Symphony of Longing: -- 30 What's Civic about Aztlán? -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. introduction -- The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies -- Defining Popular Culture -- II. self -- Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home -- Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past -- Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media -- "Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?" Star Trek's Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics -- The Empress's New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture -- "My Beautiful Wickedness": The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy -- III. Maker -- "Ceci N'est Pas une Jeune Fille": Videocams, Representation, and "Othering" in the Worlds of Teenage Girls -- "No Matter How Small": The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss -- An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net -- "I'm a Loser Baby": Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity -- IV. Performance -- "Anyone Can Do It": Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars -- Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance -- Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity," and the Discourse of Camp -- "They Dig Her Message": Opera, Television, and the Black Diva -- How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism—and Tallulah Bankhead's Phallus -- V. Taste -- "It Will Get a Terrific Laugh": On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor -- The Sound of Disaffection -- Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon -- "Racial Cross-Dressing" in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife -- The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia's New York -- Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston's Combat Zone -- VI. Change -- On Thrifting -- Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism -- The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom -- Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett -- VII. Home -- "The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know": Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey -- Finding One's Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity -- As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other -- Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France -- Narrativizing Cyber-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery -- Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies -- VIII. emotion -- "Ain't I de One Everybody Come to See?!" Popular Memories of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women's Power -- "Have You Seen This Child?" From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abıˆme -- Introducing Horror -- About the Contributors -- Name Index