Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four Book

	Introduction : "dear sir or madam, will you read my book?"	1
1	"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" : Bakhtin and the Beatles	9
2	From "craft" to "art" : formal structure in the music of the Beatles	37
3	"Love, love, love" : representations of gender and sexuality in selected songs by the Beatles	55
4	Painting their room in a colorful way : the Beatles' exploration of timbre	71
5	Mythology, remythology, and demythology : the Beatles on film	97
6	Vacio Luminoso : "tomorrow never knows" and the coherence of the impossible	111
7	The spectacle of alienation : death, loss, and the crowd in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	129
8	We all want to change the world : postmodern politics and the Beatles' White Album	147
9	"The rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry" : the Beatles and questions of mass and high culture	161
10	A universal childhood : tourism, pilgrimage, and the Beatles	169
11	"Baby you're a rich man" : the Beatles, ideology, and the cultural moment	183
12	Spinning the historical record : Lennon, McCartney, and museum politics	197
	Afterwood : I want to hold your hand	215