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Manufacturing tales: sex and money in contemporary legends
Gary Alan Fine
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Frontmatter
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Introduction: Toward a Framework for Contemporary Legends (page 1)
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I SEXUAL FANTASIES
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1. Evaluating Psychoanalytic Folklore: Are Freudians Ever Right? (page 45)
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2. The Promiscuous Cheerleader: An Adolescent Male Legend (with Bruce Noel Johnson) (page 59)
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3. Welcome to the World of AIDS: Fantasies of Female Revenge (page 69)
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II DANGEROUS PRODUCTS
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4. Cokelore and Coke Law: Urban Belief Tales and the Problem of Multiple Origins (page 79)
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5. Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social Networks: Conduits in a Preadolescent Community (page 86)
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6. The Kentucky Fried Rat: Legends and Modern Society (page 120)
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III DANGEROUS CAPITALISM
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7. The Goliath Effect: Corporate Dominance and Mercantile Legends (page 141)
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8. Mercantile Legends and the World Economy: Dangerous Imports from the Third World (page 164)
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9. Among Those Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of Kooks, Cults, and Corporations (page 174)
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IV CORPORATE REDEMPTION
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10. Redemption Rumors: Mercantile Legends and Corporate Beneficence (page 189)
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11. Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostension (page 205)
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Index (page 209)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAF | 106.442 (Autumn, 1993): 493-495 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/541917 |
CS | 22.6 (Nov. 1993): 873-874 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2076012 |
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Published: c1992
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
- 9780870497551 (paper)
- 9780870497544 (hardcover)