The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture is a cross-curriculum English-language resource that publishes scholarly articles and features on a range of popular culture

Popular culture

Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...

 topics such as television, movies, theater, radio, music, print media, sports, fashion, health and politics. It is available in print, and as an E-book

E-book

An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital...

. It was first published by Gale

Gale (publisher)

Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the United States, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It was part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, a Canadian company, but became part of Cengage Learning in 2007.The company, formerly known...

 in 2000. The encyclopaedia grew in size, and by its forth edition (2003) it had expanded to 2,700 signed essays written by subject experts and professionals.

External links

• St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture - 5 Volume set at Amazon.com
  Amazon.com
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