Product Description: Agonizing Love is a rich anthology of those legendary romance comic books that once filled newsstands to overflowing during their heyday in the 1940s and '50s. "I Craved His Kisses," "With Hate in My Heart," "Kisses Came Second," "Flame of Jealousy," "Was I a Wicked Wife?": these stories are just a taste of the absolutely riveting dramas that play out in the sob-racked pages of this evocative collection...read more

Product Description: Return with us to yesteryear, when cowboys were cowboys and gunslingers lurked around every corner. Today that colorful period continues to resonate in the collective imagination of red-blooded Americans everywhere--and now we have True West, which illustrates, in hundreds of full-color illustrations, how America's mass media stamped that vision so indelibly on our collective unconscious over the past century, into today...read more

Product Description: Mythologized in paperback novels, comic books, marriage manuals, movies, TV, & the ever-present celebrity media, tying the knot has long exerted a powerful hold on the public psyche. This book takes a lighthearted look at the curious customs & prurient press surrounding modern marriage, surveying its many manifestations in the popular media...read more

Product Description: Not long ago, Communists seemed to be everywhere: among our politicians, neighbors, favorite actors--even in our drinking water. Red Scared! is a wry tour of the frosty decades of Soviet and American adversity, when anti-Communist hysteria produced fairly hysterical pop-culture items...read more

Exposes three decades of the rebellious American teenager as portrayed in the media since the 1940s, and includes artwork from movie posters, comic books, print advertising, television shows, record covers, and more. Original. (view table of contents)

Offers brief profiles of American directors and lists their major films

Product Description: Tear-and-send postcards from the truly terrible fantasy and science fiction B-movies of the '40s and '50s. Ranging from the justifiably obscure to the obscure-but-classic, the movie posters reproduced here bring us unexpected and amusing insights into the peculiar culture from which they've been happily culled...read more

Examines American culture at the height of the Cold War to reveal the paranoia that permeated the era's films and literature

Gathers transcriptions of the Marx Brothers radio show, and discusses the background of the show