In Popular Culture
- The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death provided the inspiration for the Miniature Killer in the popular television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- Glessner Lee is paid tribute in the award-winning hard-cover book Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshua Gee.
- Glessner Lee was reportedly the inspiration for Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)