TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aden,Roger C.
TI  - Popular stories and promised lands: fan cultures and symbolic pilgrimages 
T2  - Studies in rhetoric and communication
SN  - 058509702X
AV  - E169.12 .A224 1999eb
U1  - 306/.0973 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Fans (Persons)
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Imaginary places in mass media
KW  - Escape (Psychology)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index; Introduction: I'm a Big Fan: Popular Stories, Habitus, and Places That Matter --; Theoretical Development --; The Search for Promised Lands: Dominant Visions of Sacred Places in U.S. Culture --; The Foundations of Symbolic Pilgrimage: Theoretical Conversations About Places That Matter --; Symbolic Pilgrimages: Experiencing Popular Stories as Purposeful, Imaginary-Yet-Real Journeys --; Exiled in Cubeville, Striving for Nerdvana: Dilbert as a Critique of Phony Meritocracy --; Transforming the Panopticon Into the Funhouse: Negotiating Disorientation in The X-Files --; Playing in a Perfect Place: Sports Illustrated and an American Elysian Field --; Integrating Self and Community as a Means of Finding Homes: The Shift from Consumerism to Altruistic Producerism in Field of Dreams --; Conclusion: The Return Home
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