Journal of Popular Culture

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Moving beyond the magic Indian Trope in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series4
You are what you watch: How movies and TV affect everything By WalterHickey, New York: Workman Publishing Company. 2023. pp. 240. $22.39 (hbk)4
The Pixar Hero's Journey: A Comparative Study of Propp's Morphology and Campbell's Monomyth3
Hopping Vampire Zombies: Hong Kong Cinema Brings Chinese Folklore to the Present3
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
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)3
Girls' Hairstories: Resilience and Sparkle in Contemporary Screen Cultures. By FionaHandyside, Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 224 pp. $125.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 978‐1‐39‐950693‐92
Changes, comings & goings2
Transgressive women in punk: Politics, sexuality, and creative aggression in the 1970s2
Ocular Rebellion: The Satirical Gaze of White Fright in Jordan Peele’s Get Out2
Capturing the contradictory beauty of Mexico City in The Romanoffs2
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 Vacation2
Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of IdentityBy WilliamClapton, New York: Routledge, 2024. 174 pp. $180.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐48641‐32
The Afrofuturist Evolution: Creative Paths to Self‐Discovery. By Ytasha L.Womack, Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2025. 321 pp. $19.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐89733‐455‐62
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Popular Culture. Aria S.Halliday. U of Illinois P, 2022. 208 pp. $24.95 paper.2
American Spaces and Places and the Myth of the Serial Killer: Netflix’s Mindhunter (2017–19)1
Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and FilmBy FranBigman, New York: Routledge, 2024. 187 pp. $180.00 (pbk)1
From femme fatale to love goddess:Nineteenth‐centuryimages of women in sixties San Francisco psychedelic rock posters1
What's in a Kiss? Attachments to the “True Love Kiss” Motif in QueerSleeping BeautyRetellings1
Toward a pulp criminology: The Vee Brown and Needle Mike series1
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
Sadist, Land Shark, and Reptile: Autumn de Wilde's EMMA.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
Anime's knowledge cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai By JinyingLi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 344. $30.00 (paperback)1
Despondent superheroes and cosmic horror: Posthumanism and antihumanism in Jack Kirby's cosmic mythos1
Coin‐Op conspiracies: Nostalgia and moral panic in the video arcade1
Border Crossings: Space and Place in Crime Fiction1
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How documentaries went mainstream: A history, 1960–2022 By NoraStone, New York: Oxford university press. 2023. pp. 234. $125.00 (cloth)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
The South Korean Film IndustryBy SangjoonLee, Dal YongJin, JunhyoungCho (Eds), Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. 2024. p. 324. $39.95 (pbk)1
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s. NoelBrown. Edinburgh UP, 2021. 232 pp. $100.00 cloth.1
Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places:Anti‐Essentialismand the Science Fiction Television SeriesThe Expanse1
Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming. Amanda AnnKlein. Duke UP, 2021. 248 pp. $25.95 paperback.1
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture and Political Transformation in Poland. EwaStanczyk. Ohio State UP, 2022, 211 pp. $34.95 paper.1
A BA (Hons) in “Curb your Enthusiasm”? The Campus Novel Today1
“What You Need is a GoodOld‐FashionedSpanking”: Childishness, Sexuality, and Appropriative Settler Identity inBlue Hawaii1
Asian Political Cartoons. John A.Lent, UP of Mississippi, 2023. 301 pp. $30.00 paper.1
Will the real faker please do a shoulder roll? Bodies, labor, and ideology in esports1
The Batman in the Jar: The Legacy of John Rollin Ridge's Joaquín Murieta and the Construction of American Hero1
Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Cultural History. By MattFoy and Christopher J.Olson, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. pp. 173. $36.00 (hbk)1
AI‐generated popular culture: A semiotic perspective By MarcelDanesi, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. 199. £100.99 (hbk)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
Ethical Queeries of Participatory Identity Formation: Coping with Destabilizing Notions of Identity in BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ryan Bergara/Shane Madej Real‐Person Fiction, and1
Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film. BradWeismann. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 249 pp. $25.00 paper.1
Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By ChristaSalamandra, NourHalabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)1
Fourth‐wall breakiness or whatevs”: Presumed self‐awareness in American superhero comics1
Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea. By Pil HoKim, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2025. 236 pp. $30.00 (paperback)1
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Welcome to fuckin' Letterkenny: Conceptualizing a modern Progymnasmata0
Sex and the City: A Cultural History. NicoleEvelina. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 316 pp. $36.00 paper.0
The New Gods: Free Will, Determinism, and AI in Westworld and DEVS0
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Contemporary cowboys: Reimagining an American archetype in popular culture By Clint WesleyJones (Ed.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2023. 288 pp. $45.00 hardback0
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
Fans on the silver screen: Portrayals of fandom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe0
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
Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture. Sean SamuelO'Neil. U of Tennessee P, 2022. pp. 232. $99.40 hardcover.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
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
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
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
Global Literature and the EnvironmentBy MatthewWhittle, Jade MunslowOng, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 226. $46.99 (Pbk)0
Editorial: Changes to the Editorship0
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
“All creatures great and small, welcome”: Animating accessible world design0
West Side Story: The Jets, The Sharks, and the Making of a Classic. RichardBarrios. Running Press, 2020. 221 pp. $28.00 cloth.0
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For love and money: Navigating values at the antiques roadshow event0
K‐Pop Fandom in Laos: Social Participation and Global Citizenship0
Heroic girls as figures of resistance and futurity in popular culture By SimonBacon (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 290. $180.00 (hbk)0
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A Dunkirk Hype/What's Behind a Hype?0
“I feel like a ‘cyber‐gypsy’”: BL fanfiction writers in China's changing landscape of fandom culture0
Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in “Stranger Things” and 1980s Film. Melissa VosenCallens. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 198 pp. $30.00 paper.0
The popularity of Korean romance novels in contemporary China: A feminist interpretation0
Serazio, Michael. The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture. New York UP, 2019. 400 pp. $35.00 paper.0
Brian E.Crim. Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television. Rutgers UP, 2020. 280 pp. $37.50 paper.0
Superman's Pals: Legacy Actors and Continuity in a Meta‐Franchise0
Making Music in Music City: Conversations with Nashville Industry Music Professionals. JohnMarkert. U of Tennessee P, 2021. 218 pp. $34.95 hardcover.0
“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema0
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
The Undead Child in Popular Culture Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and PreservedBy CraigMartin and DebbieOlson (Eds), New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. pp. 260. £130.00 (hbk)0
Playing It Double: Dan Fesperman’s Metafictional Tribute0
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Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and GenreMichael K.Johnson. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 286 pp. $99.00 cloth.0
An Idea of Africa in “We Are the World”: Decontextualization, Celebrity Savior Complex, Race, and Neoliberal Charity0
Concrete Expressionism: Harley Earl, William France, and NASCAR Aesthetics0
Why We Hate‐Watch: The Role of Nostalgia and Investment in WWE Viewership0
Orphan Black and Radicalizing White Femininity for the Revolution0
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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
Things Can Only Get Stranger: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Netflix's Stranger Things0
Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions. Francesca T.Royster, University of Texas Press, 2022. 230 pp. $24.95 cloth.0
Cobra Kai Never Dies! Generational seriality and revived legacies of The Karate Kid0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. MiaMask. U of Illinois P, 2023. 296 pp. $14.95 ebook.0
The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore0
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Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture. By Molly A.Schneider, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2024. 280 pp. $55.00 (hardcover)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
Science Fiction and the Absurd: Lauren Olamina as a Symbol of Hope in Butler's Parables0
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream. GrantWiedenfeld. Oxford UP, 2022. 282 pp. $35.00 paper.0
Broad City: Millennial Women Surviving the Neoliberal Gig Economy in Comedy Television0
From Shark Bait to final girl in filmic horror: Young women, killer sharks, and the Monstrous‐Masculine0
Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City. Shanté ParadigmSmalls. New York UP, 2022. 216 pp. $28.00 paperback.0
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States. SaraAustin. Ohio State UP, 2022. 180 pp. $32.95 e‐book.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
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine0
Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical0
“When It Comes to Crime, I’m a Nationalist”: National Integrity, Neocolonialism, and the Kenyan Detective Thriller0
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
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
Nihilism, Violence, and Popular Culture: The Postmodern Psychopath in Toby Fox’sUndertale0
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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
Doctor Who and the Responsibility to Protect: Public Perspectives of Atrocity Crimes0
TikTok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By TrevorBoffone, New York: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)0
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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
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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. 1630
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
Storytelling in Kabuki: An exploration of spatial poetics of comics By Steen LedetChristiansen, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2024. pp. 204. $30.00 (paperback)0
In Memoriam: Pearl Bowser0
Bootylicious Yellow Bone: Beyoncé's Physicality as a Site of Racialized, Socio‐Political Angst Concerning Beauty, Class, and Essentialized Blackness0
Themeatics: The art of hyperreality0
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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
Brigman Award Winner: Foxy Ladies and Badass Super Agents: Legacies of 1970s Blaxploitation Spy and Detective Heroines0
Multilingual fiction series: Genres, geographies and performances By NahuelRibke. Routledge, 2024. 184 pp. $170.00 hardcover0
Stephen King's evolution on race: Re‐reading Duma Key0
The Cruel Optimism of Anthropocene Technologies: Suspicion and Fascination of Technology in Okja, What Happened to Monday, and Geostorm0
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Going Mod: Pop, Op, and the Gendered Aesthetic of Play0
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
Cinema in the Arab world: New histories, new approaches By IfdalElsaket, PhilippeMeers, DanielBiltereyst, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2023. pp. 304. $76.00 (paperback)0
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves. By SophieGilbert, New York: Penguin Press, 2025. 329 pp. $30.00 (Hbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐59‐365629‐70
Sitcom as refuge, sitcom as prison: Nostalgia, anti‐nostalgia, and the embedded multi‐camera sitcom inWandaVisionandKevin Can F**k Himself0
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I'm a Wild Seed. SharonLee De La Cruz, Street Noise Books, 2021. 96 pp. $12.99 paper.0
BarbaraHammer: Pushing Out of the Frame. Sarah Keller. Wayne State UP, 2021. 225 pp. $35.99 paper.0
The Human–Nonhuman Connected Body in the Era of Climate Change: Interpreting Bong Joon‐ho's FilmSnowpiercerfrom the Perspective ofActor‐NetworkTheory0
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: 978‐1‐66‐690529‐80
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
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
California gothic: The dark side of the dream By Charles L.Crow, New York: Anthem Press. 2024. pp. 86. $23.95 (pbk)0
Using Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts Classroom. WilliamBoerman‐Cornell and JungKim. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 224 pp. $29.95 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
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
The Hallucinatory Landscape in Twentieth‐Century American Poetry0
Beyond Queering Elsa: The Erotics of Touch in Disney's Frozen Series0
Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics. By SamanthaLangsdale, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2024. 240 pp. $45.00 (hbk)0
Tiktok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By TrevorBoffone, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)0
Re‐Composing YouTube: Vernacular Musical Aesthetics in the Digital AgeBy JonasWolf, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $60.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97838376738210
Studying crime in fiction: An introduction By EricSandberg, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 204. £35.99 (pbk)0
Tryin' to Get that Oil: Black Satire of the Bush Administration and the War on Terror0
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
The Hetaera's Monster: The Sublime Mother in the Slasher Film Genre0
Out of Step with the World: Minor Threat and “Normal as Abnormal” Dress in Representation of Alterity and Authenticity0
Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification. RobertGoldman. Temple UP, 2021. 233 pp. $34.95 paper.0
White Skin and the Black Mask™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 P0
Women’s Lived Experience and the Male Gaze inBig Little Lies0
The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made0
Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars By Rachel E.Dubrofsky, University of Mississippi Press. 2022. 174 pp. $30.00 paper0
Stephen King and American Politics. Michael J.Blouin. U of Wales P, 2021. 256 pp. $57.00 paper.0
Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes. MarcellaSzablewicz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 229 pp. $32.00 ebook; $39.00 hardcover.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
Grand‐Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre. Richard J.Hand and MichaelWilson. U of Exeter P, 2022. 264 pp. £30.00 paper.0
Midnight Cinderella: Amoral Shōjo (Girl) and Japanese Girl Culture0
Interpretation in reverse: Remixing the Three Kingdoms0
Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail‐Order Marriage. MarciaZug. New York U P, 2016. 305 pp. $30.00 cloth.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, andPose0
They also served: Nurses, the great war, and children's picture books0
More Than Friends from Work: The Guardians of the Galaxy, Families, and Resilient Placemaking for Millennials0
“You’re a Chancellor, Not a GIF”: Angela Merkel in the Popular Imagination0
I Would Rather Die: Postcolonial Analysis of Rebellion Speeches in Star Wars: Andor0
Less Punk, More Splatter: Heavy Metal, Horror Video, and the Literary Nasties of Shaun Hutson0
The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. NicholasCarnes, Lilly J.Goren. UP of Kansas, 2023. 419 pp. $29.95. paper.0
Baseball: The turbulent midcentury years By Steven PhilipGietschier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 568. $44.95 (cloth).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 Freaks came out to write: The definitive history of the “Village Voice” the radical paper that changed American culture By TriciaRomano. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2024. pp. 608. $35 (hardcover0
Toys, Comics and Transmedia Play: Tracing the connections between multidimensional storytelling and playability0
The Information Behavior of Wikipedia Fan Editors: A Digital (Auto) Ethnography. By Paul A.Thomas, Lexington Books, 2024. 272 pp. $115.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐66‐694193‐70
The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel0
Understanding and Translating Chinese Martial Arts. By DanJiao, DefengLi, LingweiMeng, YuhongPeng (Eds.), Singapore: Springer, 2023. 138 pp. €129.99 hardcover.0
Intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations & cinematic representations of Blackness By CharleneRegester, CynthiaBaron, Ellen C.Scott, Terri SimoneFrancis, Robin G.Vander (Eds.), Jackson, MS: Un0
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
CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place0
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
“I am my brother's keeper”: Heteronormativity and the Straight Sister inLGBTQYoung Adult Literature0
Past and Present Crimes in Sápmi: Lars Pettersson and Olivier Truc0
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder. DavidBordwell. Columbia UP, 2023. 512 pp. $32.00 paper.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
Quasi‐color consciousness: Casting, race, and sexual violence in Netflix's Bridgerton0
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
Doing Your Thing After the End of the World: How the Middle Class Survived the Apocalypse0
The Mom Thriller: Motherhood on the Edge0
53rd ANNUAL PCA‐ACA MEETING OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION APRIL 5‐8, 2023 Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio, Texas0
She‐Ra and the Princesses of Power as Queer Monomyth0
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
Lovely heteronormative families in a harmonious society? The docudrama representations of the human‐pet relationship in contemporary China0
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 paper0
“Man, I Told You Not to Go in that House”: The Humor and Horror of Jordan Peele’s Get Out0
Of Superheroes and SJWs: Media and Fans Framing the Impact of Diversity in 2010s Comic Books0
Autistic‐coded representation and autism stereotypes: Looking for the spectrum By MartinBrick, New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 160. $100.00 (hbk)0
First‐Person Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula0
Choreographed Fan Displays: The Case of Israeli Sports0
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
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
Counter‐hegemonic sport: Constructing alternative sports narratives in Indian cinema0
Afro‐Latin Soul Music and the Reise of Black Power Cosmopolitanism. By MattiSteinitz, Berlin: De Gruyter Brill, 2025. 240 pp. $98.99 (hardcover). €129,00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐3‐11‐066450‐80
Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy. KatherineByrne and Julie AnneTaddeo. Lexington Books, 2022. 143 pp. $95.00 hardcover.0
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True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. Danielle J.Lindemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 352 pp. $20.00 paper.0
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Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and Twenty‐First‐Century Book Culture. KimWilkins, BethDriscoll, and LisaFletcher. U of Massachusetts P, 2022. 272 pp. $28.95 paper.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
Asian Americans in the Cipher: Underground Hip Hop Aesthetics and Polycultural Coherence0
Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound. Yael Levy. Syracuse UP, 2022, 179 pp. $24.95 paper.0
Enclosure, Ideology, Migration: Filmic Formalism in Bong Joon‐ho's Snowpiercer0
Editorial: Banning Maus0
Cutting the Biker’s Coif: Hair as the Visual Rhetoric of the Son of Anarchy0
Star wars: The hidden empire0
Aleksandar Prokopiev’s “The Huntsman” as a Postmodern/Postfeminist Rewriting of “Little Snow White”0
Playing with Phantoms: Decoding the Ludic Language of Metal Gear Solid V0
Whose Game: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports. Rebecca JoyceKissane and SarahWinslow. Temple UP, 2020. 231 pp. $34.95 paper.0
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz. Gretchen L.Carlson. UP of Mississippi, 2022. 224 pp. $30.00 paper.0
The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent0
“We're in the Endgame Now”: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as Contemporary Absurdism0
The Legacy of Allende’s Revolutionary Cultural Politics, 1970–730
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
Evil Voices in Popular Fictions: The Case ofThe Exorcist0
Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds. By LindaSchlegel and RachelKowert (eds.), New York: Routledge, 2024. 233 pp. £28.79 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐248299‐60
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