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Melt with me : coming of age and other '80s perils / Paul Crenshaw.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.R458 M45 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crenshaw, Paul, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crenshaw, Paul, 1972---Childhood and youth.
- Crenshaw, Paul.
- Coming of age.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Nineteen eighties.
- Childhood and youth of a person.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 202 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A collection of personal and historical essays at the intersection of 1980s pop culture and the Cold War, examining Star Wars, video games, professional wrestling, Choose Your Own Adventure books, the Satanic Panic, stranger danger, Looney Tunes, and nuclear war"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Choose your own adventure for '80s kids
- Satanic panic
- Star Wars
- Left turn at Albuquerque
- The full moon
- Candy cigarettes
- Professional wrestling is real
- Arc
- Missile command
- Morgue
- Step on a crack
- When Buckwheat got shot
- Red shirt guy is going to die
- The other place
- New words for the new world
- Breakdown
- Dead baby
- Cold cola wars
- Optimism
- Right here, right now
- Cold
- The sadness scale, as measured by stars and whales.
- ISBN:
- 9780814258828
- 0814258824
- OCLC:
- 1374815607
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