<jats:p>Books reviewed in this article:</jats:p><jats:p>Joan Hawkins, <jats:italic>Cutting Edge: Art–Horror and the Horrific Avant–Garde</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>James Lastra, <jats:italic>Sound Technology and the American Cinema</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Jeffrey Alan Melton, <jats:italic>Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism: The Tide of a Great Popular Movement</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Richard P. Harmond and Thomas J. Curran (eds.), <jats:italic>A History of Memorial Day: Unity, Discord and the Pursuit of Happiness</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Charlene Mires, <jats:italic>Independence Hall In American Memory</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett, <jats:italic>The Myth of the American Superhero</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Justin Lewis and Toby Miller (eds.), <jats:italic>Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Janet M. Davis, <jats:italic>The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under The American Big Top</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Steve Turner, <jats:italic>Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Timothy Shary, <jats:italic>Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>Matthew Dennis, <jats:italic>Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar</jats:italic></jats:p><jats:p>William Solomon, <jats:italic>Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression</jats:italic></jats:p>