articles
David Wittenberg 3 Introduction: The Extreme Mainstream

Carol Vanderveer Hamilton 7 The Evil of Banality: Moby Dick vs. the Extreme Machine

Fabio Akcelrud Durão 19 A Short Circuit of Reading: Red Dragon as Anti-Theory

Vivian Nun Halloran 27 Biting Reality: Extreme Eating and the Fascination with the Gustatory Abject

William Anthony Nericcio 43 Watching Critics, Watching Journalists, Watching Cameras, Watching Sheriffs, Watching Pee-wee Herman Watch: The Extraordinary Case of the Saturday Morning Children’s Show Celebrity Who Masturbated

review essays
Loren Glass 71 The Showman Theory of History

Stephanie Harzewski 79 Consuming Heteroscripts: The Modern Wedding in the American Imaginary

Jennifer Lynn Stoever 92 Bad Reputation: Rock Studies Rethinks American Identity