Out now The Journal of Popular Culture 45.1 (Feb. 2012). The number is currently available for free access from publisher Wiley-Blackwell. Contents as follows:
Editorial
“The Horror of it All” by Gary Hoppenstand
Brigman Award Winner
“Urban Retro-Futuristic Masculinities in China Mieville's Perdido Street Station” by Aishwarya Ganapathiraju
“The New American Hero: Dexter, Serial Killer for the Masses” by Ashley M. Donnelly
“Erma Bombeck: The Phoenix Suburban Underbelly” by David William Foster
“Domesticating Wild Sheep: Sociolinguistic Functions and Style in Translations of Haruki Murkami’s Fiction” by Kay S. Hamada
“The Crime of Punishment: The Tortured Logic of Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me, Deadly” by Thomas Heise
“Politically Incorrect, Visually Incorrect: Bitchy Butch’s Unapologetic Discrepancies in Lesbian Identity and Comic Art” by Yetta Howard
“‘Stealing the Air’: The Poet-Citizens of Youth Spoken-Word” by Rebecca Ingalls
“Black Women and Men in Hip Hop Music: Misogyny, Violence and the Negotiation of (White-Owned) Space” by Amanda Moras and Guillermo Rebollo-Gil
“Hackers as Tricksters of the Digital Age” by Svetlana Nikitina
“The Politics of Taking: La Llorona in the Cultural Mainstream” by Domino Perez
“The Semiotics of Performance and Success in Madonna” by José I. Prieto-Arranz
“‘Coven of the Articulate’: Orality and Community in Anne Rice’s Vampire Fiction” by Sara Wasson
“Becky Bloomwood at the V&A: Culture, Materialism, and the Chick Lit Novel” by Cheryl A. Wilson
Book Reviews
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Reviewed by Nicholas Proferes.
Renga, Ed.Dana. Mafia Movies: A Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Reviewed by Reza Barmaki.
Parrill, William B. The Films of Johnny Depp. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009.
Reviewed by Robert G. Weiner.
Bissell, Tom. Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
Reviewed by Kimberly L. Kulovitz.
Morrison, Grant. Supergods. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011. Reviewed by Anthony Burns.
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