Introduction : the depth of shallow culture
The baroque sneaker : how the history of the tennis shoe recapitulates Giorgio Vasari's Life cycle of art styles
Rambo and Don Quixote : cultural icons of national decline
A sociology of monsters : making mythical creatures in the United States and Japan
A sociology of toys : how Transformers and Spiderman embody the philosophies of East and West
Bringing the art object back in : toward a new realism in the sociology of culture.
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The depth of shallow culture : the high art of shoes, movies, novels, monsters, and toys by Albert Bergesen. ISBN 9781594512735. Published by Paradigm in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
