Browne, Ray B. and Marshall W. Fishwick, eds. The Hero in Transition. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular Press, 1983. 324pp. ISBN: 0-87972-237-1 (cloth), 0-87972-238-X (paper).
Introduction - Marshall W. Fishwick ... 5
The Lone Ranger and Lenny Skutnik: The Hero as Popular Culture - Roger R. Rollin ... 14
The Myth of the Hero: From Mission: Impossible to Magdalenian Caves - Bruce A. Beatie ... 46
The Superhero's Two Worlds - Robert Inchausti ... 66
The Shrinking of Psychiatry: A Broken Image - Linda B. Martin ... 74
Searching for Heroes - David Manning White ... 86
Hero with 2000 Faces - Ray B. Browne ... 91
Heroes Don't Need Zip Codes: Lenny Skutnik--Accidental Hero - Richard Shereikis ... 107
Tarzan and Columbo, Heroic Mediators - Gary L. Harmon - 115
Quixote Rides Again: The Popularity of the Thriller - Peter Rickman ... 131
Pulp Vigilante Heroes, the Moral Majority and the Apocalypse - Gary Hoppenstand ... 141
The Catalytic Child Hero in the Contemporary Gothic Novel - Hanna B. Lewis ... 151
Unlikely Heroes: The Central Figures in The World According to Garp, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and A Confederacy of Dunces - William Nelson - 163
The Changing--Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances 1950-1979 - Rita C. Hubbard ... 171
Superhero: The Six Step Progression - Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet ... 180
The Cultural Roots of our Current Infatuation with Television's Befuddled Hero - Elizabeth S. Bell ... 188
Journalist as Hero: The Adulation of Walter Cronkite - Robert G. Picard ... 196
Roles, Rituals and Romance: The Appeal of the Soap Opera Heroine - Vicki Abt ... 208
Heroes in American Political Film - Harry Keyishian ... 219
Little Miss Poker Face - Nancy B. Bouchier and John E. Findling ... 229
The Man Who Made "Casey" Famous - Roberta J. Park ... 241
"America's Greatest Sports Figures" - David L. Porter ... 248
The Astro-Political Hero - David S. Bertolucci ... 260
Archetypal Alloy: Reagan's Rhetorical Image - Sarah Russell Hankins ... 266
Marilyn Monroe: Cult Heroine - Lesley Dick ... 280
Leaders of the American West: Who Are Their Heroes? - John J. Gardiner & Kathryn E. Jones - 285
Here's a Real Hero - Art Buchwald ... 295
Did Anyone Ever See Washington Nude? - Marshall W. Fishwick ... 297
Lincoln in the Bosom of Familiarity - Ray B. Browne ... 308
Contributors ... 323
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