Case Studies
| Introduction | |
| Televangelism | 16 |
| Silicon Valley | 27 |
| The Closing of the American Mind (1987) | 34 |
| 1. Fiction and Poetry | |
| White Noise (1985) | 46 |
| In Country (1985) | 52 |
| Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) | 59 |
| 2. Art and Photography | |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | 67 |
| Jeff Koons | 71 |
| Cindy Sherman | 81 |
| 3. Film and Television | |
| Top Gun (1986) | 93 |
| Wall Street (1987) | 107 |
| Hill Street Blues (1981–7) | 117 |
| 4. Music and Performance | |
| Madonna | 129 |
| Public Enemy | 144 |
| Split Britches Company | 150 |
| 5. American Culture and Globalization | |
| CNN | 158 |
| Disneyland Resort Paris | 165 |
| The National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington | 171 |
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Publication information:
Book title: American Culture in the 1980s.
Contributors: Graham Thompson - Author.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press.
Place of publication: Edinburgh.
Publication year: 2007.
Page number: vii.
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