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You may have wondered how you can use the materials in the BPCL. Well, faculty and students have used our resources to...
- Choose a scene from our collection of 1940s original radio scripts and create sound effects for it
- Write a dissertation on African-American romance authors with novels from our romance genre collection
- Research television genres such as reality shows and sit-coms
- Find stereotypes of Native Americans in our postcard collection
- Check out a television program or popular movie from our new DVD collection to show in class
- Bring the class to use primary popular literature materials such as dime novels, nickel weeklies, pulp magazines, and series
fiction
- Research popular sports figures like Michael Jordan, Pete Rose, and Lance Armstrong
- Use pamphlets from the William Ringle Alternative Collection to research the topic music and drugs
- Write papers "debunking" myths such as the Loch Ness Monster, Atlantis, crop circles, Shroud of Turin, etc.
- Use comic books to explore gender stereotypes in the superheroes genre
- Explore how zines for popular literature can function as literary criticism
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