The soul of popular culture

Paperback; xii + 338 pp. including an index. Contents: Part I Heroes and Myths: The Deep Structure of Ourselves 1. Elvis Presley: Fáma and the Cultus of the Dying God / Clarissa Pinkola Estés 2. The Feminine Hero of The Silence of the Lambs / Jane Alexander Stewart 3. The New American Hero: Made in Japan / Antonia Levi 4. The Hercules Complex: The O.J. Simpson Story / Marita Digney 5. Coming Home: Hyper-Images of the Hero and Child in America / Mary Lynn Kittelson 6. Cinemyths: Contemporary Films as Gender Myth / Ted E. Tollefson 7. By Jove! There's More to British Comedies than Meets the Eye / Elizabeth Masiée Part II Shadows and Shades: Dealing with the Dark 8. The Mists of Lake Wobegon: The Archetypal Function of an American Storyteller / Mary Ann Miller 9. Taking the Dark with Open Eyes: Hidden Dimensions of a Psychology of Abortion / Lyn Cowan 10. Deconstructing the American Shadow: A Review of Pulp Fiction / John Beebe 11. Pulp Fiction: From Shadowland to Heartland / Lydia S. Lennihan 12. Vampires, Eroticism, and the Lure of the Unconscious / Nancy Dougherty 13. The Dragon and the Man-Machine: Reflecting on Jurassic Park and Frankenstein / James W. Maertens 14. Ain't No Angel: AIDS and the Abandoned Soul / Judith Savage 15. Looking through the Keyhole: Recollecting and Reflecting America's Soul in Paris, Texas / Gary D. Astrachan Part III The Mirror of Culture: Finding Ourselves Within 16. The Piano: From Constriction to Connection / Donald Williams 17. Another Look at Co-dependency / John Desteian 18. Dirty Politics, Clean Voters? / Mary Ann Mattoon 19. False Memories, True Memory, and Maybes / Lyn Cowan 20. No One Wins: The Miss America Pageant and Sports Contests As Failed Initiations / Marita Digney Part IV Peering into the Possible 21. A Psychology for the Age Internet / Dolores E. Brien 22. Its Continuing Mission: Star Trek's Machine Mythology and the Quest for Self / Almira F. Poudrier 23. Star Trek and the Intimate Alien / Kevin Jones 24. Holy Madness at Heaven's Gate / Marita Digney