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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Popular Culture is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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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)	4
Social Order and Authority in Disney and Pixar Films. KellieDeys and Denise F.Parrillo. Eds. Lexington Books, 2022. 234 pp. $95.00 hardcover.	3
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States. SaraAustin. Ohio State UP, 2022. 180 pp. $32.95 e‐book.	3
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)	3
From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States. Brian Bunk. Illinois UP, 2021. 296 pp. $24.95 paper.	2
Imagined Adversaries: Criminality and Border Formation in Dave Hutchinson’s Europe in Autumn	2
Annie Oakley and an Emergent Postwar Femininity	2
Cutting the Biker’s Coif: Hair as the Visual Rhetoric of the Son of Anarchy	2
The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as PhilosophyBy David KyleJohnson, Dean A.Kowalski, ChrisLay and Kimberly S.Engels (Eds), Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. 2145 pp. $599.99 (hbk)	2
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Perspectives on Crazy Ex‐Girlfriend: Nuanced Postnetwork Television. Amanda Konkle and Charles Burnetts. Syracuse UP, 2021. 310 pp. $34.95 paper.	2
Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze. KathrynHemmann. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 182 pp. $59.99 cloth.	2
Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited. PhilippaGates and KatherineSpring, editors. Wayne State UP, 2021. 356 pp. $36.99 paper.	2
More Than Friends from Work: The Guardians of the Galaxy, Families, and Resilient Placemaking for Millennials	1
Rap Capital: An Atlanta StoryJoeCoscarelli, Simon & Schuster. 2022. 448 pp. $29.99 hardcover.	1
Prestige Television: Cultural and Artistic Value in 21st Century America. Eds. SethFriedman and AmandaKeeler. Rutgers UP, 2022. 240 pp. $32.95 Paperback.	1
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder. DavidBordwell. Columbia UP, 2023. 512 pp. $32.00 paper.	1
This Is How I Win: Uncut Gems, Colonial Violence, and the Victorian Adventure Story	1
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Science Fiction and the Absurd: Lauren Olamina as a Symbol of Hope in Butler's Parables	1
Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City. Shanté ParadigmSmalls. New York UP, 2022. 216 pp. $28.00 paperback.	1
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.	1
Aquaman and the War against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene. RyanPoll, U of Nebraska P, 2022. pp 268. $30.00 paper.	1
Baseball: The turbulent midcentury years By Steven PhilipGietschier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 568. $44.95 (cloth).	1

Communities of Women in Acevedos's With the Fire on High (2019) and Clap When You Land (2020)	1
“There Are No Ugly Men in Wakanda”: Black Panther, Spectatorship, and the Queer Male Gaze	1
Capturing the contradictory beauty of Mexico City in The Romanoffs	1
Seriality and Female Spies: Reading Stella Rimington	1
What Would Miss Daisy Drive? The Road Trip Film, the Automobile, and the Woman Behind the Wheel	1
Rags and Bones: An Exploration of The Band. Edited by JeffSellars and Kevin C.Neece. UP of Mississippi, 2022. 176 pp. $30.00 paper.	1
Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self‐Control	1
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.	1
The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton. LukeWinslow, Nancy J.Legge, JacobJustice (Ed.), Lexington. 2022. 226 pp. $100 hardcover	1
Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7. David Martin‐Jones. Edinburgh UP, 2022. 239 pp. $22.45 paper.	1
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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture. Seok‐Kyeong Hong and Dal Yong Jin. Routledge, 2021. 248 pp. $128.00 hardcover.	1
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The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot. PatrickMaille. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 260 pp. $25.00 paper.	1
Ocular Rebellion: The Satirical Gaze of White Fright in Jordan Peele’s Get Out	1
Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World. Sarah ParkDalen, Ebony ElizabethThomas. UP of Mississippi, 2022. 330 pp. $25.00 paper.	1
Roger Ebert’s Film Criticism	1
In Memoriam: Pearl Bowser	1
The othering of women in silent film: Cultural, historical, and literary contexts By Barbara TepaLupack, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. 344 pp. $120.00 (hardcover)	1
They also served: Nurses, the great war, and children's picture books	1
Nihilism, Violence, and Popular Culture: The Postmodern Psychopath in Toby Fox’sUndertale	1
Being, Moving, and Enforcing Justice in the City	1
New Kids in the World Cup: The Totally Late '80s & Early '90s Tale of the Team that Changed American Soccer Forever. AdamElder. Lincoln, NB: U of Nebraska P, 2022. 314 pp. $34.95 paper.	1
Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post‐Civil Rights Era: An “Integrated” Effort. BethFowler. Lexington Books, 2022. 363 pp. $100.00 hardcover.	1
Understanding and Translating Chinese Martial Arts. By DanJiao, DefengLi, LingweiMeng, YuhongPeng (Eds.), Singapore: Springer, 2023. 138 pp. €129.99 hardcover.	1
Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. SandraBecker, MegenDe Bruin‐Molé, and SaraPolak. U of Wales P, 2021. 322 pp. $57.00 paper.	1
Punchline Behind the Hotspot: Structures of Humor, Puzzle, and Sexuality in Adventure Games (withLeisureSuitLarryin Several Wrong Places)	0
Cultural Citizenship and Popular Culture: The Art of ListeningBy JokeHermes, New York: Routledge. 2024. p. 198. $164.89 (hbk)	0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. MiaMask. U of Illinois P, 2023. 296 pp. $14.95 ebook.	0
First‐Person Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula	0
Race, representation, and satire By Christopher P.Campbell (Ed.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 262. $110.00 (hbk)	0
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Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives. Ed. EleanorTy. Ohio State UP, 208 pp. $99.95 hardcover.	0
Lovely heteronormative families in a harmonious society? The docudrama representations of the human‐pet relationship in contemporary China	0
Beyoncé's “break my soul”: An anthem of courage, resistance, peace, and community	0
Making Music in Music City: Conversations with Nashville Industry Music Professionals. JohnMarkert. U of Tennessee P, 2021. 218 pp. $34.95 hardcover.	0
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity. TanaWojczuk. Avid Reader Press, 2020. 226 pp. $21.49 cloth.	0
Serving Up Realness: Reseeing Masculinity and Labor in Queer Eye	0
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K‐Pop Fandom in Laos: Social Participation and Global Citizenship	0
Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. SayersBy JemBloomfield, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 230 pp. £109.99 (hbk)	0
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Happy eating and food addiction in American advertising By DebbieDanowski. New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 232. $100.00 (Hardcover)	0
Coin‐Op conspiracies: Nostalgia and moral panic in the video arcade	0
The ivory tower, Harry Potter, and beyond: More essays on the works of J.K. Rowling By Lana A.Whited (Ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2023. pp. 424. $55.00 (hbk)	0
Beyond Queering Elsa: The Erotics of Touch in Disney's Frozen Series	0
Law of Extraction: Transcultural Environments, Uncanny Subjects, and the “Unresolved Question of Pleasure” in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)	0
Themeatics: The art of hyperreality	0
Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics. CarolVernallis, HollyRogers, and LisaPerrott, eds. Bloomsbury, 2020. 509 pp. + xvii. $26.99 paperback.	0

The decline of Dr. Frasier Crane	0
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The Stereotypical Portrayal of Jewish Masculinity onTheBigBangTheory	0
From femme fatale to love goddess:Nineteenth‐centuryimages of women in sixties San Francisco psychedelic rock posters	0
Tryin' to Get that Oil: Black Satire of the Bush Administration and the War on Terror	0
The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made	0
Women in Marvel Films. MiriamKent. Edinburgh UP, 2021. 328 pp. $110.00 hardcover.	0
Baiting whiteness: Ziwe Fumudoh's satirical repetition	0
Editorial: New Editor	0
Global Literature and the EnvironmentBy MatthewWhittle, Jade MunslowOng, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 226. $46.99 (Pbk)	0
BarbaraHammer: Pushing Out of the Frame. Sarah Keller. Wayne State UP, 2021. 225 pp. $35.99 paper.	0
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream. GrantWiedenfeld. Oxford UP, 2022. 282 pp. $35.00 paper.	0
The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent	0
Shake my hand: Racial fantasies, white saviors, and Django Unchained's haunted screen	0
Editorial: Computers in Popular Culture Studies, Part 1	0
For the Culture: Hip‐Hop and the Fight for Social Justice. Edited by Lakeyta M.Bonnette‐Bailey, and Adolphus G.Belk, Jr. U of Michigan P, 2022. 346 pp. $80.00 hardcover	0
Teen Movies: A Century of American Youth. TimothyShary. New York: Wallflower Press, 2023. 184 pp. $22.00 paper.	0
Brigman Award Winner: Foxy Ladies and Badass Super Agents: Legacies of 1970s Blaxploitation Spy and Detective Heroines	0
K‐Pop Culture in the United States: Protest Contexts and Practices	0
Trans Brides in the History of Trans Representations: All That Glitters (1977) and Sense8 (2015‐2018)	0
Editorial: The Graphic Novel and the Slow Way	0
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Bootlegging the airwaves: Alternative histories of radio and television distribution By EleanorPatterson, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 192. $28.00 (paperback)	0
Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical	0
Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around VideogamesBy Condis, Megan Amber and Sell, Mike (Ed.), Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2024. pp 344. $28.00 (pbk)	0
Harry Potter and resistance By BethSutton‐Ramspeck. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge. 2023. 224 pp. $33.89 paper. ISBN: >978‐1032319872	0
The Global Vampire. Edited by CaitCoker. McFarland & Company, 2020. 251 pp. $39.95 paper	0
Keeping Horror in Mind: Psychoanalysis and the “New Direction” of EC Comics	0
Evil Voices in Popular Fictions: The Case ofThe Exorcist	0
Quasi‐color consciousness: Casting, race, and sexual violence in Netflix's Bridgerton	0
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular CultureBy TeresaHiergeist and StefanieSchäfer (Ed.), New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 320 pp. $50.00 (paperback).	0
The Disney + Kingdom: Essays on nostalgia, representation and branding By DavidWhitt and JohnPerlich (Eds.), Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company. 2024. pp. 203. $49.95 (pbk)	0
Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIBy Erin LeeMock. University of Virginia Press. 2024. pp. 284. $115.00 (Cloth)	0
Midnight Cinderella: Amoral Shōjo (Girl) and Japanese Girl Culture	0
Fans on the silver screen: Portrayals of fandom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe	0
So Bad It’s Good: Articulations of Power in Ironic Film Criticism	0
Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore. SteveFerzacca. National U of Singapore P, 2021. 288 pp. $36.00 paper.	0
Prometheus by the Bay: Hollywood and tech capitalism in Silicon Valley	0
Zombies and India: The neoMONSTERS Epidemiology	0
Concrete Expressionism: Harley Earl, William France, and NASCAR Aesthetics	0
She‐Ra and the Princesses of Power as Queer Monomyth	0
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Sex and the City: A Cultural History. NicoleEvelina. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 316 pp. $36.00 paper.	0
Baseball rebels: The players, people, and social movements that shook up the game and changed AmericaBy PeterDreier, RobertElias, Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P. 2022. 370 pp. $36.95 (cloth)	0
Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film. BradWeismann. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 249 pp. $25.00 paper.	0
Hardboiled Hysterics: Shell Shock and Tough Guys inThe Maltese Falcon, 1929/1941	0
Hollywood and history: What the movies get wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam By JemDuducu, New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 2023. 264 pp. $38.00 (hardcover)	0
Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian Popular CultureBy MatthiasSchwartz, NinaWeller (Eds.). New York: Columbia University Press. 2024. 318 pp. $50.00. (pbk)	0
Race and the Animated Bodyscape: Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra. Francis M.Agnoli, Jackson, MississippiUP, 2023. pp. 226. $30.00 paper.	0
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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
Liar Like Me: Deception Frequency and Evaluation in Children's Television Programing	0
From Shark Bait to final girl in filmic horror: Young women, killer sharks, and the Monstrous‐Masculine	0
The gothic and twenty‐first‐century American popular culture By Anna MartaMarini, MichaelFuchs (Eds.), Boston, MA: Brill. 2024. p. 248. £105.84 (hbk)	0
Orphan Black and Radicalizing White Femininity for the Revolution	0
At the End: Bowie, Reed, and Cohen	0
Polish theatre revisited: Theatre fans in the nineteenth century By AgataŁuksza, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2024. 367 pages. $100.00 (pbk)	0
Freak Scenes: American Indie Cinema and Indie Music Cultures. JamieSexton. Edinburgh UP, 2023. 208 pp. $110.00 paper.	0
Video game characters and transmedia storytelling: The dynamic game character By JoleenBlom, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2023. pp. 208. €104.00 (hardcover)	0
Reshaping Reality: Mystery Fiction Literary Tourism and Its Effect on Real‐World Spaces	0
Gender and Sexual Diversity and Suicide on Australian Screens: Culture, Representation, and Health Pedagogies	0
Asian Americans in the Cipher: Underground Hip Hop Aesthetics and Polycultural Coherence	0
To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking	0
Creating the viewer: Market research and the evolving media ecosystem By JustinWyatt. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. pp. 288. $105.00 (hbk)	0
Disney's Dilemma: Public Response to Pixar's Soul	0
A Dunkirk Hype/What's Behind a Hype?	0
Studying crime in fiction: An introduction By EricSandberg, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 204. £35.99 (pbk)	0
Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture. AmandaPhillips. New York UP, 2020. 237 pp. $29.00 paperback.	0
Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film. DonnaKornhaber. U of Chicago P, 2019. 328 pp. $35.00 cloth.	0
Toys, Comics and Transmedia Play: Tracing the connections between multidimensional storytelling and playability	0
Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero. RoySchwartz. McFarland, 2021. 374 pp. $45.00 paper.	0
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The New Gods: Free Will, Determinism, and AI in Westworld and DEVS	0
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Doctor Who and the Responsibility to Protect: Public Perspectives of Atrocity Crimes	0
Making a scene in documentary film: Iconic filmmakers discuss what works and why By MaxineTrump, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 222. £100.00 (hbk)	0
Digital Black Feminism. Catherine Knight Steele. New York UP, 2021. 208 pp. $27.00 paper.	0
The experimental book object: Materiality, media, design By SamiSjöberg, MikkoKeskinen, ArjaKarhumaa (Eds.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 336. $170.00 (hardcover)	0
Race and the Suburbs in American Film. Merrill Schleier, eds. SUNY P, 2021. 267 pp. $95.00 hardcover.	0
“Human or machine?” performing androids, “Elektro‐Homos,” and the “Phroso” and “Moto Phoso” manias on the popular stage around 1900	0

Year of the Cat: Abuse, Healing, and Intergenerational Trauma in Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket	0
Dying to Eat: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife. Candi K.Cann, ed. Kentucky UP, 2018. 199 pp. $65.00 hardcover.	0
“What You Need is a GoodOld‐FashionedSpanking”: Childishness, Sexuality, and Appropriative Settler Identity inBlue Hawaii	0
Star wars: The hidden empire	0
Next Generation Adaptation. Allen H.Redmon. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 211 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place	0
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Shop of the Pops: Socialist Consumers, Capitalist Performers, and the Record Market That United Them	0
Gendered Defenders: Marvel's Heroines in Transmedia Spaces. Ed. Bryan J.Carr and Meta G.Carstarphen. Ohio State UP, 2022. 216 pp. $36.95 paper.	0
A history of cyber literary criticism in China By YouquanOuyang, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 310. $180.00 (hbk)	0
The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyoncé'sLemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture	0
Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary U.S. Popular Culture: Self‐Reflexivity, Melodrama, and Nostalgia in Film and Television. EleonoraRavizza. J. B. Metzler, 2020. 229 pp. $89.99 paper.	0
“Zu Asche, Zu Staub”: Netflix Acquisitions and the Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Unrest in Babylon Berlin	0
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The Hallucinatory Landscape in Twentieth‐Century American Poetry	0
Interpretation in reverse: Remixing the Three Kingdoms	0
California gothic: The dark side of the dream By Charles L.Crow, New York: Anthem Press. 2024. pp. 86. $23.95 (pbk)	0
Work and labor in American popular culture: Representation in film, music and television in the 1970s and 1980s By JasonRussell, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 96. £48.99 (hbk)	0
Comedy as Theodicy	0
Things Can Only Get Stranger: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Netflix's Stranger Things	0
Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China. DavidCraig, JianLin, and StuartCunningham. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 197 pp. $109.99 hardcover.	0
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Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work By AvivaBriefel, JasonMiddleton (Eds.), Austin, TX: Texas UP. 2023. 256 pp. $55.00 paper	0
Abdelilah Hamdouchi’sThe Final Bet: The Police, the Procedural and Democracy in Modern Morocco	0
Mr. Donkey from Stage to Screen: Insights into the Film Adaptation of Drama IPs in China	0
From Memory to History: Television versions of the twentieth centuryBy JimCullen, Rutgers U.P.2021. 255 pp. $31.95 paper.	0
Road to Nowhere: The early 1990s collapse and rebuild of New York City baseball. ChrisDonnelly, U of Nebraska P. 2023. 368 pp. $34.95 hardcover.	0
Chicano Chicana Americana: Pop culture pluralism starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros By AnthonyMacias. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. 2023. 246 pp. $26.95	0
The drinking curriculum: A cultural history of childhood and alcohol By Elizabeth A.Marshall, New York: Fordham University Press. 2024. pp. 135. $25.00 (paperback)	0
Astros and Asterisks: Houston's Sign‐stealing Scandal Explained. Edited by JonathanSilverman. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2023. 280 pp. $90.00 hardcover.	0
Monstrous Thing: Essays on Ghosts, Vampires, and Things That Go Bump in the Night. Jeffrey AndrewWeinstock. McFarland, 2023. 237 pp. $49.95 paper	0
Fracturing walls, not identities: The power of John Green's fully human representations of disability in The Fault in Our Stars	0
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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Editorial: Computers and Popular Culture II	0
Nightmare on Gay Street: Conflating Sexuality and Gender in the Discourse Surrounding the “Gayest Horror Film Ever Made”	0
Superman's Pals: Legacy Actors and Continuity in a Meta‐Franchise	0
Asian Political Cartoons. John A.Lent, UP of Mississippi, 2023. 301 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
Zerox machine: Punk, post‐punk and fanzines in Britain, 1976–88 By MatthewWorley. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. pp. 360. $35.00 (pbk)	0
Counter‐hegemonic sport: Constructing alternative sports narratives in Indian cinema	0
In Memoriam: Felicia Campbell	0
“You’ll Float, Too”: Contemporary Rhetorics of Materiality and Ecology in Stephen King’sIt	0
The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel	0
Correction to Will the real faker please do a shoulder roll? Bodies, labor, and ideology in esports	0
Culinary colonialism, Caribbean cookbooks, and recipes for national independence By Keja L.Valens, New Brunswick, NY: Rutgers University Press. 2024. p.p. 504. $42.95 (pbk)	0
The Human–Nonhuman Connected Body in the Era of Climate Change: Interpreting Bong Joon‐ho's FilmSnowpiercerfrom the Perspective ofActor‐NetworkTheory	0
Queer Whiteness, the Chicana/o/x Family, andElMalinche inQuinceañera	0
Bootylicious Yellow Bone: Beyoncé's Physicality as a Site of Racialized, Socio‐Political Angst Concerning Beauty, Class, and Essentialized Blackness	0
A cultural history of the Punisher. Marvel comics and the politics of vengeance By KentWorcester. Bristol: Intellect, 2023. pp. 274. £ 29.95 (pbk)	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
“We're in the Endgame Now”: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as Contemporary Absurdism	0
Tiktok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By TrevorBoffone, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)	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
Playing It Double: Dan Fesperman’s Metafictional Tribute	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
Less Punk, More Splatter: Heavy Metal, Horror Video, and the Literary Nasties of Shaun Hutson	0
Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies. MichaelLechuga, UP of Mississippi. 2023. 183 pp. $25.00 paperback.	0
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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
Out of Step with the World: Minor Threat and “Normal as Abnormal” Dress in Representation of Alterity and Authenticity	0
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators and Culture in the Golden Age. Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis. U of Texas P, 2022. 326 pp. $32.95 paper.	0
Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise. A. J. BlackMcFarland, 2021. 202 pp. $45.00 paper.	0
Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification. RobertGoldman. Temple UP, 2021. 233 pp. $34.95 paper.	0
Predator's Prey: Reframing indigenous representation and Hollywood franchise cinema in the age of SVOD	0
Screening social justice: Brave new films and documentary activism By Sherry B.Ortner. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 160. $23.95 (pbk)	0
“It’s Not a Natural Thing”: SituatingTwin Peaks: The Returnwithin the Anthropocene	0
I Can Read It All by Myself: The Beginner Books Story. Paul V.Allen. U of Mississippi P, 2021. 356 pp. $21.00 paper.	0
The Hero’s Journey of Flash Gordon	0
Mothers and National Identity in Carlo Collodi's Schoolbooks	0
Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By ChristaSalamandra, NourHalabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)	0
History, Modernity, and Marginal Cultural Identity in Theeb and Beasts of the Southern Wild	0
From “Mystification” to “Massification”: Canton Counterespionage Films and Cold War Geopolitics	0
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“Historical Time Flux”: Back to the Future and the Pastiche of Rebel Without a Cause	0
Is this the Greatest Show? Neoliberal Myth‐Making in TheGreatestShowman	0
Comic Art in Museums. Edited by Kim A.Munson. UP of Mississippi, 2020. 386 pp. $99.00 cloth. $30.00 paper.	0
The Survivor Cross‐Season Narrative and Its Debt to Soap Opera	0
The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular CultureBy TomaszJacheć. London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 258. $180.00 (hbk)	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
Whose Game: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports. Rebecca JoyceKissane and SarahWinslow. Temple UP, 2020. 231 pp. $34.95 paper.	0
What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century By KathleenLubey, Redwood City, CA: Stanford UP. 2022. 288 pp. $28.00 paper	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
Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound. Yael Levy. Syracuse UP, 2022, 179 pp. $24.95 paper.	0
Not All Supermen: Sexism, Toxic Masculinity, and the Complex History of Superheroes. TimHanley. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 250 pp. $35.00 hardcover.	0
Jane Austen and vampires: Love, sex and immortality in the new millennium By EricParisot, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. 123. $65.95. (hbk)	0
Multilingual fiction series: Genres, geographies and performances By NahuelRibke. Routledge, 2024. 184 pp. $170.00 hardcover	0
Enclosure, Ideology, Migration: Filmic Formalism in Bong Joon‐ho's Snowpiercer	0
The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics. Frank Andre Guridy. U of Texas P, 2021. 418 pp. $29.95 hardcover.	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
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