Harley-Davidson in 1947
Harley 1%ers vs. The Nicest People - The 1950s
The Harley Davidson Mystique
Harley-Davidson Factory Mystique
MOTORYCLE MENACE
Media Genres and the Construction of a Deviant
Culture by Ross Fuglsang
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Media as Meaning Makers -- The media as a meaning-making
institution, describing for particular audiences the line between deviance and poverty.
- Chapter 2: The Motorcycle as American Icon -- A historical context for the motorcycle, one-percenters and outlaw clubs.
- Chapter 3: Newsstand Menace -- How newspapers and magazines reported events surrounding motorcycle outlaws, discrediting the clubs
while accepting less extreme aspects which, over time, introduced into the mainstream.
- Chapter 4: Insiders, Outsiders and Outlaws -- How non-fiction writers and biographers have accounted for the evolution of outlaw
clubs.
- Chapter 5: Genres and Junk Fiction -- How genre fiction, in order to support a masculine ideal, either ignores or accepts certain
attributes of the outlaw biker lifestyle.
- Chapter 6: The Demands of Popularity -- How images of rough-and-ready bikers, independent yet hedonistic, have been used and exploited
in popular entertainment genres.
- Chapter 7: Building a Biker Community -- How bikers have defined and fortified their own lifestyle in specialized media.
- Conclusion: "Bikers as "Not-a-Citizen" -- Describes
the clarity of the biker myth and its singular utility in representing the "not-a-citizen".
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