ASHLEY, Bob. [editor] Reading Popular Narrative. A Source Book
[From the cover] "In tackling the crucial problem of how to read popular texts, important issues and problems are addressed - how to define ‘popular’, the complex relationship between a text and its readers or viewers, the range of popular genres and the principal critical approaches of critics and theorists. These disparate and frequently competing readings debate the issues theoretically and offer close analyses of such genres as thrillers, horror, romances, westerns and science fiction"

