Pop Goes the Decade

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
    By Thomas Harrison

    PHIL DONAHUE The daytime talk-show format underwent a number of changes in the 1980s as well. Through his show The Phil Donahue Show (more commonly known as Donahue), Phil Donahue was instrumental in developing the “tabloid” talkshow ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s
    Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s
    By Richard A. Hall

    In 1980, Vincent Sr.'s son, Vincent Kennedy McMahon (b. 1945), and his wife, Linda, (b. 1948) established the company Titan Sports. Two years later, Titan bought controlling interest in Capitol from McMahon's father, creating the World ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Nineties
    By Kevin L. Ferguson

    While today there are even more cynical and evil characters on screen, at the time television critics such as Maureen Dowd thought the show was like a “Dorian Gray portrait,” referring to a negative yuppie, “me-first” sensibility that ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties
    By Aaron Barlow, Martin Kich

    ... William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), Thornton Wilder's The Eighth Day (1967), Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (1968), John Updike's Couples (1968), and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969).

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
    By Ralph G. Giordano

    The following year, he starred in Loving You and Jailhouse Rock, followed by King Creole in 1958. ... The popularity of Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll can in no way be underestimated. ... American Decades: 1950–1959.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    By Richard A. Hall

    According to urban legend, and as impossible as it is to believe, sports in the 1970s saw the origin of a ... The 1970s was an exciting time in American sports, across the spectrum. ... Major League Baseball was “America's pastime.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties
    By Aaron Barlow, Martin Kich

    ... Shows and American Culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2006. Hollis, Tim. Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Inman, David. Television Variety Shows: Histories ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    By Richard A. Hall

    Part of the Pop Goes the Decade series, this book looks at one of the most memorable decades of the 20th century, highlighting pop culture areas such as film, television, sports, technology, advertising, fashion, and art.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
    By Ralph G. Giordano

    ... plastic disc were sold. Frisbee games were popular on college campuses and it was viewed as a “counter-culture ... History,” n.p.). THE HULA HOOP AND BUBBLE GUM CARDS In 1958, Wham-O created the biggest fad of the century—the hula hoop ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    By Richard A. Hall

    Part of the Pop Goes the Decade series, this book looks at one of the most memorable decades of the 20th century, highlighting pop culture areas such as film, television, sports, technology, advertising, fashion, and art.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s
    Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s
    By Richard A. Hall

    Finally, a conclusion shows the impact that pop culture in the 2000s has had on the U.S. in the years since. This volume serves as a comprehensive resource for high school and college students studying popular culture in the 2000s.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Sixties
    By Aaron Barlow, Martin Kich

    Analyzing complex social and political issues through their manifestations in popular culture, this book provides readers a strong foundational knowledge of the 1960s as a decade. 1969 went out in a way that could never have been imagined ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
    By Thomas Harrison

    The book also calls attention to the standout events and individuals who influenced society in the 1980s, with emphasis on the figures who intentionally used pop culture as an avenue for change as well as the influences from the 1980s that ...

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies
    By LLC, ABC-CLIO

    This book explores the cultural and social framework of the 1970s, focusing on pop culture areas that include film, television, sports, technological innovations, clothing, and art.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties
    By Ralph G. Giordano

    Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Timeline -- Background and Introduction -- Exploring Popular Culture -- 1.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s
    Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s
    By Richard A. Hall

    Finally, a conclusion shows the impact that pop culture in the 2000s has had on the U.S. in the years since. This volume serves as a comprehensive resource for high school and college students studying popular culture in the 2000s.

  • Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
    Pop Goes the Decade: The Eighties
    By Thomas Harrison

    ... Fifty Jewish Women Who Changed the World. New York: Kensington/Citadel Press, 2005. Karndon, Janet. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, 1988. Kuspit ...