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Table of Contents: “…The epic of America -- The status seekers -- The anti-paradise -- Born in the USA -- The anxious society -- American idol.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Tales of dominion -- The plow and the gun -- Picturing the West, 1883-1893 -- American idol, 1898 -- The end of nature -- African romance -- The dark continent -- When cowboys go to heaven -- Transplanting Africa -- Of ape-men, sex, and cannibal kings -- Adventures in monkeyland -- Nature, the film -- The world scrubbed clean.…”
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Table of Contents: “…How the Man in Black became the Man in White -- Blithe spirit -- Ragtime on tap -- Domestic circle -- Pirates of Broadway -- Body and soul -- Autobiography house -- American idol -- College of one -- A Yank at Oxford -- Young and old -- The world according to Mark -- Princes and paupers -- To heaven and back -- Manhattan melodrama -- Tourist trade -- Farewell, Fifth Avenue -- Connecticut Yankee -- Breaking and entering -- The Mark Twain Company -- Tempest -- Hannibal-on-Avon -- End of the line -- Crime and punishment -- Letters from the Earth -- Revels ended.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "Worship at the Altar of Convergence": A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change -- Spoiling Survivor: The Anatomy of a Knowledge Community -- Buying into American Idol: How We are Being Sold on Reality TV -- Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling -- Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a translocal approach to imagining the global -- Un-American idols: how the global/national/local intersect -- Holier-than-thou: representing the "other" and vindicating ourselves in international news -- Talking about non-no: (re)fashioning race and gender in global magazines -- Disjuncture and difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: embracing hip-hop as a global genre -- What West is it? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a translocal approach to imagining the global -- Un-American idols: how the global/national/local intersect -- Holier-than-thou: representing the "other" and vindicating ourselves in international news -- Talking about non-no: (re)fashioning race and gender in global magazines -- Disjuncture and difference from the Banlieue to the Ganba: embracing hip-hop as a global genre -- What West is it? …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- January 14, 2004 -- February 4, 2004 -- February 9, 2004 -- American idol -- Veritas -- March 2004 -- New York City -- Spring semester -- May 2004 -- Serendipity -- California dreaming -- Henley on the Thames -- July 28, 2004 -- San Francisco -- October 2004 -- December 3, 2004 -- April 3, 2005 -- April 4, 2005 -- What goes around-- -- June 2005 -- Three months later -- CEO -- May 2008 -- Where are they now--?…”

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Table of Contents: “…My ancestral hit parade ; The dragon's teeth ; The doldrums ; American Idol ; "Since u been gone" -- Second verse: Factory girls : cultural technology and the making of K-pop. …”

Table of Contents: “…. / Mary Beth Ray -- Your "American Idol" : the intersection between reality television, ideology and the music industry in popular culture / Alison Slade -- Gaming the guitar : Aerosmith, Metallica, The Beatles, and the music video game revolution / Bob Batchelor -- How much does it cost if it's free? …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Molly Haskell -- The Natural: Transitions in Mary Pickford's Acting from the Footlights to Her Greatest Role in Film / Eileen Whitfield -- Childhood Revisited: An Evaluation of Mary Pickford's Youngest Characters / Eileen Whitfield -- Mary Pickford: passionate producer / Kevin Brownlow -- Father of the Family: Mary Pickford's Journey from Breadwinner to Businesswoman / Christel Schmidt -- Pickford and Fairbanks: A Modern Marriage / Christel Schmidt -- "Little Mary": Formidable Philanthropist / Alison Trope -- America's Sweetheart / Edward Wagenknecht -- Dressing the Part: Mary Pickford's Use of Costume / Beth Werling -- American Idol: Mary Pickford, World War I, and the Making of a National Icon / Christel Schmidt -- Laws of attraction: Mary Pickford, movies, and the evolution of fame / Eileen Whitfield -- Crown of Glory: The Rise and Fall of the Mary Pickford Curls / Christel Schmidt -- Blood and Sympathy: Race and the Films of Mary Pickford / Elizabeth Binggeli -- The Films of Mary Pickford / James Card -- Mary Pickford and the Archival Film Movement / Christel Schmidt -- The Mary Pickford Film Collection at the Library of Congress / Christel Schmidt -- The Mary Pickford Photograph Collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library / Robert Cushman -- The Mary Pickford Costume and Ephemera Collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County / Beth Werling -- Chronology of Mary Pickford's Life / Christel Schmidt -- Filmography / Christel Schmidt.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Paper Chiefs: Sayer & Bennett's Portraits of American Revolutionaries / Amy Torbert -- 8. American Idols: Fashions à l'Americaine in Pre-Revolutionary France / Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell -- V. …”

Table of Contents: “…American idol : Trump's administration and reality TV / June Deery -- Young viewers turned voters : how "wishing to be Trump" and other parasocial effects from watching The apprentice predict likeability, trust, and support for a celebrity president / Sara S. …”