Journal of Popular Culture

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You are what you watch: How movies and TV affect everything By WalterHickey, New York: Workman Publishing Company. 2023. pp. 240. $22.39 (hbk)	5
Moving beyond the magic Indian Trope in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series	4
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular CultureBy TeresaHiergeist and StefanieSchäfer (eds.), New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 322 pp. $50.00 (pbk)	4
Ocular Rebellion: The Satirical Gaze of White Fright in Jordan Peele’s Get Out	3
The Afrofuturist Evolution: Creative Paths to Self‐Discovery. By Ytasha L.Womack, Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2025. 321 pp. $19.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐89733‐455‐6	3
Who Gets to Go Back‐to‐the‐Land? Gender and Race in U.S. Self‐Sufficiency Popular Culture. Valerie PadillaCarroll. U of Nebraska P, 2022. 254 pp. $60.00 hardcover.	3
Girls' Hairstories: Resilience and Sparkle in Contemporary Screen Cultures. By FionaHandyside, Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 224 pp. $125.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐39‐950693‐9	3
Capturing the contradictory beauty of Mexico City in The Romanoffs	2
“I Think I Need to Kill You”: The New Woman Assassin in Hanna and Killing Eve	2
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The Pixar Hero's Journey: A Comparative Study of Propp's Morphology and Campbell's Monomyth	2
Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of IdentityBy WilliamClapton, New York: Routledge, 2024. 174 pp. $180.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐48641‐3	2
Hopping Vampire Zombies: Hong Kong Cinema Brings Chinese Folklore to the Present	2
Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Cultural History. By MattFoy and Christopher J.Olson, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. pp. 173. $36.00 (hbk)	1
That's the joint: The Hip‐Hop studies reader, 3rd edition By MurrayForman, Mark AnthonyNeal, and Regina N.Bradley (Eds.), New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 780. £59.99 (pbk)	1
Changes, comings & goings	1
Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics. By DanielWorden. Columbus, OH : Ohio State University Press. 2024. 212 pp. $34.95 (pb	1
Toward a pulp criminology: The Vee Brown and Needle Mike series	1
Words That Pack a Punch: Dynamic Subtitles and Virtual Multilingualism in John Wick	1
How documentaries went mainstream: A history, 1960–2022 By NoraStone, New York: Oxford university press. 2023. pp. 234. $125.00 (cloth)	1
Anime's knowledge cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai By JinyingLi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 344. $30.00 (paperback)	1
Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and FilmBy FranBigman, New York: Routledge, 2024. 187 pp. $180.00 (pbk)	1
Transgressive women in punk: Politics, sexuality, and creative aggression in the 1970s	1
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Popular Culture. Aria S.Halliday. U of Illinois P, 2022. 208 pp. $24.95 paper.	1
Significant Food: Critical Readings to Nourish American LiteratureBy JeffBirkenstein, Robert C.Hauhart (Eds.), Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. 2024. pp. 277. £98.00 (Hbk)	1

The South Korean Film IndustryBy SangjoonLee, Dal YongJin, JunhyoungCho (Eds), Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2024. p. 324. $39.95 (pbk)	1
The uses of the past in contemporary Western popular culture By TobiasBecker and DionGeorgiou (Eds.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. 426. $ 242.00 (hbk)	1
Ethical Queeries of Participatory Identity Formation: Coping with Destabilizing Notions of Identity in BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ryan Bergara/Shane Madej Real‐Person Fiction, and	1
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture and Political Transformation in Poland. EwaStanczyk. Ohio State UP, 2022, 211 pp. $34.95 paper.	1
AI‐generated popular culture: A semiotic perspective By MarcelDanesi, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. 199. £100.99 (hbk)	1
The Well‐Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully. By TracyFullerton and MatthewFarber, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025. 244 pp. $40.00 (Paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐26‐255223‐3	1
Normporn: Queer viewers and the TV that soothes us By KarenTongson, New York: New York University Press. 2023. 203 pp. $19.95 (paperback)	1
Soccer as a National Pastime and its Role in the Lives of Traditional Communities in Cao Hamburger's Coming of Age Film: The Year my Parents Went on Vacation	1
Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places:Anti‐Essentialismand the Science Fiction Television SeriesThe Expanse	1
The Reflective Age: Nostalgia at the End of History. By ZacharyGriffith, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 188 pp. $32.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐9788‐4378‐3	1
What's in a Kiss? Attachments to the “True Love Kiss” Motif in QueerSleeping BeautyRetellings	1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming. Amanda AnnKlein. Duke UP, 2021. 248 pp. $25.95 paperback.	1
Sadist, Land Shark, and Reptile: Autumn de Wilde's EMMA.	1
The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema: Witches, Zombies, and Cyborgs Re‐Enchanting the Ends of the World. By Sticchi, Francesco, New York: Routledge, 2025. 166 pp. £123.98 (hardcove	0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. MiaMask. U of Illinois P, 2023. 296 pp. $14.95 ebook.	0
The Hetaera's Monster: The Sublime Mother in the Slasher Film Genre	0
Playing with Phantoms: Decoding the Ludic Language of Metal Gear Solid V	0
Counter‐hegemonic sport: Constructing alternative sports narratives in Indian cinema	0
Enclosure, Ideology, Migration: Filmic Formalism in Bong Joon‐ho's Snowpiercer	0
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“We're in the Endgame Now”: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as Contemporary Absurdism	0
Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions. Francesca T.Royster, University of Texas Press, 2022. 230 pp. $24.95 cloth.	0
Decoding Digital Culture With Science Fiction: Hyper‐Modernism, Hyperreality, and PosthumanismBy Alan N.Shapiro, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 374 pp. $60.00 (paperback)	0
A Dunkirk Hype/What's Behind a Hype?	0
The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty‐First‐Century US Television. SarahHagelin and GillianSilverman. U of Chicago P, 2022. 288 pp. $26.00 paper.	0
Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian ConsciousnessBy D. HarlanWilson, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Stalking Horse Press, 2025. 222 pp. $19.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐960451‐0	0
The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at the Florida Studio. Ed. Mary E.Lescher. U of Illinois P, 2022. 280 pp. $29.95 paper.	0
The Art of Memes in Feminist Digital Culture. By ShanaMacDonald, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press, 2025. 216 pp. $36.95 (paperback). ISBN: 0814214959	0
Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the US Government Shapes Cinematic Universes. Tricia Jenkins and Tom Secker. UP of Kansas, 2022. 336 pp. $34.95 hardcover.	0
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder. DavidBordwell. Columbia UP, 2023. 512 pp. $32.00 paper.	0
Correction to “On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power. By Michelle Bumatay, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2025. 168 Pp. $36.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐81‐421582‐1”	0
“I feel like a ‘cyber‐gypsy’”: BL fanfiction writers in China's changing landscape of fandom culture	0
Architecture and Science‐Fiction Film: Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home, By David, Fortin (ed.), New York: Routledge, 2025. 239 pp. $54.99. (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐4094‐0748‐5.	0
Investigating Crime in a Time of War: Historical Crime Fiction and the Representation of Fascism. By Thomas W.Kniesche, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. pp. 266. $92.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐87	0
In Memoriam: Pearl Bowser	0
Digital Black Feminism. Catherine Knight Steele. New York UP, 2021. 208 pp. $27.00 paper.	0
Out of the Gutters. Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics. By Jorge J.SantosJr. and Patrick S.Lawrence (eds.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. 294 pp. $55 (e‐book). ISBN	0
Why We Hate‐Watch: The Role of Nostalgia and Investment in WWE Viewership	0
California gothic: The dark side of the dream By Charles L.Crow, New York: Anthem Press. 2024. pp. 86. $23.95 (pbk)	0
The Women Who Made Early Disneyland: Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations. By CindyMediavilla and KelseyKnox, New York: Lexington Books, 2024. 283 pp. $115.00 (hardcover)	0
Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age. By BrianFauteux, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. 318 pp. $29.95. (pbk)	0
“If You Can’t Love Yourself, How in the Hell You Gonna Love Somebody Else?”: Care and Neoliberalism onQueer Eye,RuPaul’s Drag Race, andPose	0
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's PeanutsMichelle AnnAbate. UP of Mississippi, 2023. 222 pp. $25.00 paper.	0
Is There an Exit Door?: The Baudrillardian Crisis of Simulation in The Truman Show	0
Television by Stream: Essays on Marketing, Content, and Audience Worldwide. ChristinaAdamou and SotirisPetridis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2023. 230 pp. $55.00 paper.	0
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine	0
Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing	0
Poetics of the Paranormal. By KevinChabot, Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $32.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐22‐802298‐5	0
Raising a star: Black motherhood and the politics of whiteness in the Colombian telenovela, La mamá del 10	0
Cobra Kai Never Dies! Generational seriality and revived legacies of The Karate Kid	0

Playing the percentages: How film distribution made the Hollywood studio system By DerekLong. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. pp. 296. $55.00 (hbk)	0
The notorious RBG: The discursive power of celebrity in defense of the supreme court	0
The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity, and Spectacle. Eds. Lisa DorisAlexander and Joel NathanRosen. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 332 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
Disability and Fandom. By Katherine AndersonHowell. New York: New York University Press, 2024. 232 pp. $95.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐60‐938967‐3	0
Conveying Lived Experience Through Rock and Pop Music Lyrics. By David C.WrightJr., Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2024. pp. 153 $110.00 (cloth).	0
The new Nancy: Flexible and relatable daily comics in the twenty‐first century By JeffKarnicky, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 208. $30.00 (paperback)	0
TikTok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By TrevorBoffone, New York: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)	0
The Human–Nonhuman Connected Body in the Era of Climate Change: Interpreting Bong Joon‐ho's FilmSnowpiercerfrom the Perspective ofActor‐NetworkTheory	0
Aquaman and the War against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene. RyanPoll, U of Nebraska P, 2022. pp 268. $30.00 paper.	0
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Superhero Rhetoric: From Exceptionalism to Globalization—Up, Up, and … Abroad. By Michael ArthurSoares, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 218 pp. $105.00 (hbk)	0
Worlds of Social Dancing: Dance Floor Encounters and the Global Rise of Couple Dancing, c. 1910–40. Eds. KlausNathaus and JamesNott, 2022. 285 pp. $120.00 hardcover.	0
“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema	0
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Welcome to fuckin' Letterkenny: Conceptualizing a modern Progymnasmata	0
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The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post‐pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption. Edited by QiaoLi, DavidWilson, and YanqiuGuan, New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. 163	0
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Pictures and the past: Media, memory, and the specter of fascism in postmodern art By AlexanderBigman, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 256. £26.97(hbk)	0
Multilingual fiction series: Genres, geographies and performances By NahuelRibke. Routledge, 2024. 184 pp. $170.00 hardcover	0
How YouTube and TikTok conquered the world By John M.Jordan, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2024. pp. 219. $99.95 (hbk)	0
Fans on the silver screen: Portrayals of fandom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe	0
When the Perfect Christmas Can't be Perfect: Juxtaposing Hallmark Christmas Movies With Real Life During COVID ‐19	0
Spanish‐Language Television: Cultural and Industrial TransformationsBy Manuel G.Avilés‐Santiago and Jillian M.Báez, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2025. 208 pp. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4773	0
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock. By JonathanGould, New York: Mariner Books, 2025. 501 pp. $35.00 (hbk). ISBN: 0063022982	0
Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro‐Brazilian Culture. By Darién J.Davis, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 211 pp. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐97‐884414‐8	0
The Uses of the Past in Contemporary Western Popular Culture: Nostalgia, Politics, Lifecycles, Mediations, and MaterialitiesBy TobiasBecker and DionGeorgiou (Ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.	0
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They also served: Nurses, the great war, and children's picture books	0
Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound. Yael Levy. Syracuse UP, 2022, 179 pp. $24.95 paper.	0
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream. GrantWiedenfeld. Oxford UP, 2022. 282 pp. $35.00 paper.	0
Evil Voices in Popular Fictions: The Case ofThe Exorcist	0
Making the Miami Cubanita: A Pop Cultural Genealogy. By Paula DavisHoffman, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2026. 286 pp. $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐49‐624017‐0	0
Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies. MichaelLechuga, UP of Mississippi. 2023. 183 pp. $25.00 paperback.	0
Sex Work in Popular CultureBy LaurenKirshner, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 400 pp. €208.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781487537104	0
Latin American Comics in the Twenty‐First Century: Transgressing the FrameBy JamesScorer, Frederick LuisAldama, ChristopherGonzález and Deborah ElizabetWhaley (eds.), Austin, TX: University of Texas P	0
Tryin' to Get that Oil: Black Satire of the Bush Administration and the War on Terror	0
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Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy. KatherineByrne and Julie AnneTaddeo. Lexington Books, 2022. 143 pp. $95.00 hardcover.	0
“All creatures great and small, welcome”: Animating accessible world design	0
BTS and Languages: K‐Pop Transcending Language and Communication. By JoowonSuh and Eun SungPark (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 252 pp. $184.15 (hardcover)	0
Get Your Tokens Ready: The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series. By Chris Donnelly. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2025. 344 pp. $34.95. (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐49‐623080‐5	0
Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures, Edited by Scott E.Hamilton and ConorHeffernan. U of Wales P, 2022. 284 pp. $57.00 paper.	0
Autistic‐coded representation and autism stereotypes: Looking for the spectrum By MartinBrick, New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 160. $100.00 (hbk)	0
I'm a Wild Seed. SharonLee De La Cruz, Street Noise Books, 2021. 96 pp. $12.99 paper.	0
Quasi‐color consciousness: Casting, race, and sexual violence in Netflix's Bridgerton	0
Baseball: The turbulent midcentury years By Steven PhilipGietschier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 568. $44.95 (cloth).	0
Love in the Time of Self‐Publishing: How Romance Authors Changed the Rules of Writing and SuccessBy ChristineLarson, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. pp. 273. $29.95 (hbk)	0
For love and money: Navigating values at the antiques roadshow event	0
Grand‐Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre. Richard J.Hand and MichaelWilson. U of Exeter P, 2022. 264 pp. £30.00 paper.	0
Stephen King's evolution on race: Re‐reading Duma Key	0
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Beyond Queering Elsa: The Erotics of Touch in Disney's Frozen Series	0
Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical	0
Intersectional Humanism and Star Trek: Discovery: Warping Into a Connected Future. By Alyson R. Buckman, New York: Lexington Books, 2024. pp. 241. $115.00. (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐66‐690529‐8	0
The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made	0
Broad City: Millennial Women Surviving the Neoliberal Gig Economy in Comedy Television	0
Imperiled whiteness: How Hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America By PenelopeIngram, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. pp. 392. $30.00 (pbk)	0
Doctor Who and the Responsibility to Protect: Public Perspectives of Atrocity Crimes	0
Techno‐Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions. By DavidRoh, BetsyHuang, Greta AiyuNiu, and Christopher T.Fan, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2025. 380 pp. $39.95 (pbk).	0
Playing It Double: Dan Fesperman’s Metafictional Tribute	0
Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds. By LindaSchlegel and RachelKowert (eds.), New York: Routledge, 2024. 233 pp. £28.79 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐248299‐6	0
The Information Behavior of Wikipedia Fan Editors: A Digital (Auto) Ethnography. By Paul A.Thomas, Lexington Books, 2024. 272 pp. $115.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐66‐694193‐7	0
Teaching History With Popular Media: Strategies for Inquiry‐Based Learning. By Timm, Chad, Jefferson, NC : McFarland	0
On the Margins of Realism: Tracing Alternative Aesthetics in a Century of Chinese Cinema. By TingLuo, New York: Routledge, 2025. pp. 196 $200.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781003600664	0
Theater censorship in contemporary Europe: Silence and protest By AnnieEtienne, ChrisMegson (Eds.). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. 250. $ 112.99 (hardcover)	0
Twin Peaks , the Limits of Postmodernism, and David Lynch's Ecological Imagination	0
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Mean girl feminism: How white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss By Kim HongNguyen, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 160. $22.95 (paperback)	0
Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age. By JianXu, GlenDonnar, and DivyaGarg (eds.), Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. 292 pp. $75.00 (hbk)	0
Silence in the Quagmire: The Vietnam War in U.S. Comics. By Harriet, E. H. Earle Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2025. 198 Pages. $30.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4962‐4054‐5	0
Sex and the City: A Cultural History. NicoleEvelina. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 316 pp. $36.00 paper.	0
The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. NicholasCarnes, Lilly J.Goren. UP of Kansas, 2023. 419 pp. $29.95. paper.	0
Why any woman: Feminism and popular culture in the late twentieth‐century South By Keira V.Williams. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. 2023. pp. 236. $29.95 (pbk)	0
The Devil Resides in Comfort: Constructs of Evil in Contemporary True Crime Series	0
Studying crime in fiction: An introduction By EricSandberg, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 204. £35.99 (pbk)	0
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Less Punk, More Splatter: Heavy Metal, Horror Video, and the Literary Nasties of Shaun Hutson	0
Toys, Comics and Transmedia Play: Tracing the connections between multidimensional storytelling and playability	0

Contemporary cowboys: Reimagining an American archetype in popular culture By Clint WesleyJones (Ed.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2023. 288 pp. $45.00 hardback	0
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States. SaraAustin. Ohio State UP, 2022. 180 pp. $32.95 e‐book.	0
Crime Fiction and Ecology: From the Local to the Global. By NathanAshman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 84. £55.00 (hbk)	0
The New Gods: Free Will, Determinism, and AI in Westworld and DEVS	0
Concrete Expressionism: Harley Earl, William France, and NASCAR Aesthetics	0
The popularity of Korean romance novels in contemporary China: A feminist interpretation	0
Bootylicious Yellow Bone: Beyoncé's Physicality as a Site of Racialized, Socio‐Political Angst Concerning Beauty, Class, and Essentialized Blackness	0
The intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations and cinematic representations of blackness By CharleneRegester, CynthiaBaron, Ellen C.Scott, Terri SimoneFrancis, and Robin G.Vander (Eds.), Jackson,	0
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Understanding and Translating Chinese Martial Arts. By DanJiao, DefengLi, LingweiMeng, YuhongPeng (Eds.), Singapore: Springer, 2023. 138 pp. €129.99 hardcover.	0
Fearless Vulgarity: Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship. KenFeil. Wayne State UP, 2022. 304 pp $34.99 paper.	0
Batman Begins , the Dark Knight Trilogy, and the Taming of the Orient	0
Star wars: The hidden empire	0
True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. Danielle J.Lindemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 352 pp. $20.00 paper.	0
Disney Adults: Exploring (And Falling in Love With) a Magical Subculture. By AJWolfe. New York: Gallery Books, 2025. 272 pp. $28.99 (Hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐66‐806921‐9	0
Walter Byers and the NCAA : Power, Amateurism, and Growing Controversy in Big‐Time College Sport. By Smith, Ronald A., Knoxville,	0
Re‐Composing YouTube: Vernacular Musical Aesthetics in the Digital AgeBy JonasWolf, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $60.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9783837673821	0
Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy. By Christopher K.Coffman, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2026. 262 pp. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9	0
In the Japanese Ballpark: Behind the Scenes of Nippon Professional Baseball By Robert K.Fitts. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2025. 304pp. $36.95 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐49‐624407‐9.	0
Survivor: A Cultural History. By Joseph J. Darowski and KateDarowski. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2025. 224 pp. $40.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 1538196557	0
BarbaraHammer: Pushing Out of the Frame. Sarah Keller. Wayne State UP, 2021. 225 pp. $35.99 paper.	0
Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms: Popular Culture in South AsiaBy SomakBiswas, Rohit K.Dasgupta, ChurnjeetMahn (Eds.), New York: Routledge, 2024. 118 pp. $180.00 (hardcover)	0
The needle and the lens: pop goes to the movies from rock ‘n’ roll to synthwave By NatePatrin, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 264 pp. $19.95 paper	0
The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel	0
Interpretation in reverse: Remixing the Three Kingdoms	0
The Tradwife Revolution: An Ethnography of Trad Futurism on Social Media. By AlexandraDeem, New York: Routledge, 2026. 230 pp. $200.00 (hbk). ISBN :	0
Out of Step with the World: Minor Threat and “Normal as Abnormal” Dress in Representation of Alterity and Authenticity	0
Superman's Pals: Legacy Actors and Continuity in a Meta‐Franchise	0
Things Can Only Get Stranger: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Netflix's Stranger Things	0
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Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars By Rachel E.Dubrofsky, University of Mississippi Press. 2022. 174 pp. $30.00 paper	0
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz. Gretchen L.Carlson. UP of Mississippi, 2022. 224 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
Mapping the posthuman: Perspectives on the non‐human in literature and culture By GrantHamilton and CarolynLau (Eds.), Routledge: New York. 2024. p. 346. £155.00 (hardcover)	0
Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age. By JianXu, GlenDonnar, and DivyaGarg, Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. 276 pp. $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN	0
Communities of Women in Acevedos's With the Fire on High (2019) and Clap When You Land (2020)	0
Fashion, Popular Culture and Political Economy. By Nirupama SinghDar, New York: Routledge, 2025. 544 pp. $54.99 (paperback). ISBN : 978‐0‐367‐33120‐7	0
Cinema in the Arab world: New histories, new approaches By IfdalElsaket, PhilippeMeers, DanielBiltereyst, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2023. pp. 304. $76.00 (paperback)	0
Going Mod: Pop, Op, and the Gendered Aesthetic of Play	0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and GenreMichael K.Johnson. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 286 pp. $99.00 cloth.	0
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films. KellieDeys and Denise F.Parrillo. Eds. Lexington Books, 2022. 234 pp. $95.00 hardcover.	0
From Shark Bait to final girl in filmic horror: Young women, killer sharks, and the Monstrous‐Masculine	0
A Different Type of Asian Female Celebrity: Awkwafina's Metamorphous Aesthetics and the Paradox of Her Celebrification	0
“I am my brother's keeper”: Heteronormativity and the Straight Sister inLGBTQYoung Adult Literature	0
Gothic Disney: Dark Shadows in the House of MouseBy LornaPiatti‐Farnell and Jeffrey AndrewWeinstock (eds.), New York: Lexington Books, 2024. 266 pp. $120.00 (hardcover)	0
The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore	0
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An Idea of Africa in “We Are the World”: Decontextualization, Celebrity Savior Complex, Race, and Neoliberal Charity	0
Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America, By HenryJenkins, New York: New York University Press, 2025. 368 pp. $35.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐983189‐0	0
Tiktok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By TrevorBoffone, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)	0
Women's Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes. JenniferO'Meara. U of Texas P, 2022. 272 pp. $24.00 paper	0
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The cultural construction of hidden spaces: Essays on pockets, pouches, and secret drawers By JamesBrown, AnnaJamieson, NaomiSegal (Eds.), Boston, MA: Brill. 2024. pp. 352. $155.00 (hbk).	0
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Centring Women in Bollywood Biopics: Empowerment and Agency in Contemporary Indian CinemaBy ChandravaChakravarty and Sneha KarChaudhuri, New York: Routledge, 2025. 206 pp. $135.00 (Hbk)	0
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