Acknowledgments = ix
1. Trash and Literature = 1
2. The Critical Context = 14
PART 1: CASE STUDIES
3. Star Wars and The Faerie Queene = 29
4. The Trash Talk Show = 38
5. Friends, Seinfeld, and Days of Our Lives = 44
6. Tragedy, the Enquirer, and the Critics = 58
PART 2: VALUES
7. Advertising and Utopia = 77
8. The Shopping Mall and the Formal Garden = 91
9. Playboy and The Book of the Courtier = 101
10. Cosmopolitan and the Woman's Coming-of-Age Novel = 117
PART 3: HISTORY
11. Star Trek, Gulliver's Travels, and the Problem of History = 139
12. The Great Books in Vietnam = 153
13. Matthew Arnold Meets Godzilla = 175
Works Cited = 179
Index = 185
1. Trash and Literature = 1
2. The Critical Context = 14
PART 1: CASE STUDIES
3. Star Wars and The Faerie Queene = 29
4. The Trash Talk Show = 38
5. Friends, Seinfeld, and Days of Our Lives = 44
6. Tragedy, the Enquirer, and the Critics = 58
PART 2: VALUES
7. Advertising and Utopia = 77
8. The Shopping Mall and the Formal Garden = 91
9. Playboy and The Book of the Courtier = 101
10. Cosmopolitan and the Woman's Coming-of-Age Novel = 117
PART 3: HISTORY
11. Star Trek, Gulliver's Travels, and the Problem of History = 139
12. The Great Books in Vietnam = 153
13. Matthew Arnold Meets Godzilla = 175
Works Cited = 179
Index = 185