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Popular Culture Resources on the Net

alt.culture "an a-z of the 90s".

American Pop
"It's all about collective shared memories of pop culture! It's Pez dispensers and TV dinners, sci-fi movies and surfer flicks. It's everything you've ever thought was fun or cool ... "

American Pop Culture Art Gallery
Some nice work. Includes some pulp fiction artwork from the 40s to the 60s.

Art Deco
Possibly irrelevant, but I just happen to like Art Deco

Beauty Shoppe Archive
From someone who really cares about something that really matters: "... the website dedicated to the preservation of yesteryears coiffures. Sit back and enjoy a unique library of beautiful hairstyles from past generations". I hope this man has seen "The Hairdresser's Husband"!

BeautyWorlds
The culture of beauty in all its splendour!!!

CONELRAD
Strange take on the world, this one! "CONELRAD is a site devoted to ATOMIC CULTURE past and present. CONELRAD is the creation of writers who grew up in the shadow of the BOMB and all its attendant pop culture fallout. The site shares their collected interest, experience and obsession with this strange era. [CONELRAD was a national Emergency Broadcasting System outlet available during the early Cold War.]"

Darwin Awards
Without a clean gene pool, there'd be no popular culture, right? Well, I don't know, but, just in case you're the only one out there who doesn't know about the Darwin Awards, hotfoot it over there right now!

Detritus.net
Let's get postmodern! Recycle and reuse! "This web site is about fine art and pop culture. Lofty postmodern theory and grassroots resistance ... Detritus is a gallery, a village, a library, a studio, a news service."

Fifties Web
Yep, you guessed it, a 50s site.

The Gallery of the Absurd
Need I explain?

Girls, Guns and Ghouls
Movie reviews for the very, very discerning. Or is that disturbing?? Anyhoo, you've gotta like someone who does this. Watch the list grow!

The Great American Pin-up
Member of the Pin-Up Webring. Follow the links for lots more pin-ups. But, just as a diversion, see if you can work out what gives with Art Frahm, celery and loose elastic! Deeply disturbing.

ImageNETion
Lots of pinups, sci-fi & fantasy art, movie posters and more.


Images
A journal of film and popular culture.

M/C - a journal of media and culture. "M/C is a journal of media and culture, created at the University of Queensland, Australia, and published electronically on the Web, but like the Net it is neither fully academic writing nor entirely popular culture; similarly, we are neither exclusively covering Internet-related topics nor ignoring them altogether. Put positively, we are concerned with the goings-on in today's media and culture environments, whatever form they take, and add our own observations to the cauldron of opinions that is the Net."

Nostalgia Central
"A trip through the 60's, 70's and 80's via Television, Music, Movies and Popular Culture." Australian and UK focus.

Open Directory Project - Pop Culture area
More resources and links.

The Polyester Network
A seventies site.

PopCult Magazine
"The obsessive journal of QUALITY pop culture."

Pop Culture and Counter Culture of the Atomic Age
"Compelled by a burning desire to explore the fire of change in Pop Culture? Feel like an intellectual pyromaniac? Leave your extinguisher behind and warm yourself ... " Any site that begins with this quote from Bertrand Russell has gotta be worth a look: "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so."

Pop History Now
This week in Pop History!

Pop Matters
The magazine of global culture ...

Popular Culture Association
Popular Culture gets some serious treatment.

Popular Culture Club
"Pop Culture Club is a network of critically acclaimed, pop culture themed websites that tackle the worlds of nostalgia, television, movies, music, and more. Follow the links to find first rate information, interaction, and humor."

The Popular Culture Page
" ... set up to allow a space for the serious inquiry into the nature and significance of popular culture through the evaluation of its many mediums and semiotic language ... "

Postmodern Theory, Culture Studies and Hypertext
Lots of links to some pretty serious stuff about contemporary philosophy, cyberculture, zines, post-modernism, semiotics and more. Not for the faint-hearted!

Pulp Fiction Postcards
The name says it all! More pulp fiction links on the pulp fiction page.

Retro Magazine
Excellent online magazine with a particular affinity for the 30s and 40s. Check out the vintage style tips.

Roadside architecture in 1950s America
Some great images here, and some interesting commentary.

Salon Magazine
One of the earliest, and certainly still one of the best, Net zines.

Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center, "the comprehensive guide to cultural studies and popular culture on the Internet".

Secret Fun Spot
Some nice American popular culture artefacts - TV cards, toys, Atari art and more.

Shoot The Messenger, "the online zine that analyses from a Christian perspective popular culture in all its forms: music, film, literature, magazines, TV and cultural trends e.g. fashion, recreation, New Age beliefs, social, philosophical and political issues."

Urban Legends. These really deserve a page of their own ... But, for now, here are some sites you should see:

The AFU & Urban Legends Archive is a categorised list of urban legends and assorted cullings from the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup. Make a coffee and settle in for a long read.

San Fernando Valley Folklore Society's Urban Legends Reference Pages is a lovingly researched goldmine of urban legends. How did Mick Jagger like Mars Bars? This is the place to find out!

The Urban Legend, online humorous magazine. Not unlike another online magazine in a similarly satirical vein, The Onion. Which is a bit off-topic, really, but ain't that just like the Net??

Village Voice Magazine
A venerable rag in cyberspace.

Vot Der Dumboozle?
Billing itself as "the popular culture excavation site", any site that thinks Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys need to be better known is definitely on the right track. A lot of not-so-well-known stuff here.

 
 
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