Journal of Popular Culture October 2012

The latest number 45.5 of The Journal of Popular Culture is now available in print and online at the Wiley Online Library. Contents as follows:


Editorial
Editorial: Adaptation and Disappointment (pages 921–922)
Gary Hoppenstand


Articles
“Incloseto Putbacko”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction (pages 923–942)
Anne Balay

Behind the Behind the Scenes of Disney World: Meeting the Need for Insider Knowledge (pages 943–959)
Mathew J. Bartkowiak

“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Weeds (pages 960–978)
David Gillota

Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (pages 979–999)
Benjamin D. O'Dell

“When the Life Giver Dies, All Around Is Laid Waste.” Structural Trauma and the Splitting of Time in Signal to Noise, a Graphic Novel (pages 1000–1019)
Andrés Romero-Jódar

Gay Characters in the Margins: Gender-Based Stereotypes in Subtitled French Film (pages 1020–1040)
Sheila Turek

Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II (pages 1041–1059)
Tony M. Vinci

Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances (pages 1060–1089)
Laura Vivanco

The Killer Angels, Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial (pages 1090–1108)
Nicholas White


Book Reviews
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. Ed. Ethan Blue. New York: New York University Press, 2012. (pages 1109–1113)
Laura Hapke

That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Eds. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. 760 pp. $47.00 paperback. (pages 1113–1116)
Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum

Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Jane Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $24.95 paperback. (pages 1116–1118)
Kate Netzler Burch

Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno. Miriam Hansen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 408 pp. $79 cloth; $29.90 paperback. (pages 1118–1122)
Dora Valkanova

The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. Ingram David. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 278 pp. $79.44 paperback. (pages 1122–1123)
Stephen Rust

Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network. Rice Jeff. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $39.95 paperback. (pages 1123–1126)
Nicholas Porter

The Galaxy is Rated G: Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television. Eds. R. C. Neighbors and Sandy Rankin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 292 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1126–1128)
Rachel E. Page

Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film. Ed. Kendall R. Phillips. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $30.00 paperback. (pages 1128–1131)
Daniel R. Mistich

The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays. Eds. Matthew Kapell and Stephen McVeigh. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 239 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1131–1133)
Shannon McRae


Announcements
Announcement: The William Brigman JPC Award (page 1134)