LITTLE ROCK — Tim Dale and Joe Foy will discuss on Friday a book they wrote about the influence of popular culture on the political views and values of American audiences.
Their book is titled Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent Through American Popular Culture, which features a team of scholars that uses television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, All in the Family, The View, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report as well as movies and popular music to investigate contemporary issues in American popular culture.
Dale is a professor of political science at the University ofWisconsin at Green Bay, and Foy is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Waukesha.
The speech is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. at the Clinton School of Public Service in Sturgis Hall. Admission is free, and the public is invited.
Sturgis Hall, the former Choctaw Railway Station building on the Clinton Presidential Center grounds, is at 1200 President Clinton Ave. in Little Rock.
Reservations are available by e-mailing publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu or calling (501) 683-5239. Attendees may bring their own lunches. The school will provide water and soft drinks.
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