金衡山、廖煒春主編的《美國大眾文化》是一部有關美國大眾文化的閱讀文選，收集了與大眾文化相關的消費文化、廣告、電視、體育、音樂、電影、大眾偶像等方面的各類文章。一方面，讀者可以從這些文章中了解近幾十年來美國大眾文化的方方面面；另一方面，這些文章不隻是單單介紹大眾文化，更主要的是，文章的作者都是用一種批評的眼光來看待大眾文化，所以你讀到的除了相關知識之外，更多的是精湛的評論，犀利的批判，深邃的思想，生動的文筆。

導論  大眾文化和大眾文化批評
Chapter 1  Consumer Culture: The Passion of Consumption and the
Consumer Society
  Lesson 1  The Signs of Shopping
  Lesson 2  The Haunted Superstore
  Lesson 3  Blue Jeans
  Historical Perspective: Fashion
Chapter 2  Advertising: The Signs of Advertising in America
  Lesson 4  Masters of Desire: The Culture of Amerlcan Adertising
  Lesson 5  Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals
  Lesson 6  With These Words I Can Sell You Anything
  Historical Perspective: Advertising
Chapter 3  Pop Music: Excitements, Emotions and Controversies
  Lesson 7  Hip-Hop Nation: There's More To Rap Than Just Rhythms
and Rhymes
  Lesson 8  Rock 'N' Revolt
  Lesson 9  The Lessons of Presley's Hips
  Historical Perspective: Music
Chapter 4  Television: The Cultural Impacts of Television
  Lesson 10  Televison and Cultural Behavior
  Lesson 11  Life According to TV
  Lesson 12  Soaps Day and Night
  Lesson 13  The Opera Winfrey Show and The Talk Show Furor
  Historical Perspective: Television
Chapter 5  Sports: The Cultural Implications in American Sports
  Lesson 14  Sports and the American Dream
  Lesson 15  Jockpop: Popular Sports and Polities
  Lesson 16  The Black and White Truth about Basketball
  Historical Perspective: Sports
Chapter 6  Film: Making Hollywood Dreams
  Lesson 17  Creating the Myth
  Lesson 18  The Western
  Lesson 19  Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck
  Lesson 20  The Way We Are
  Historical Perspective: Film
Chapter 7  American Icons: The Worshipped Characters for the Public
  Lesson 21  Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of
Desire
  Lesson 22  What Makes Superman So Darned American?
  Lesson 23  Our Barbies, Ourselves