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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving beyond the magic Indian Trope in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series	3
Ocular Rebellion: The Satirical Gaze of White Fright in Jordan Peele’s Get Out	3
You are what you watch: How movies and TV affect everything By WalterHickey, New York: Workman Publishing Company. 2023. pp. 240. $22.39 (hbk)	3
Empathy, Anthropomorphism, and the Uncanny Valley Effect: Why Audiences Strayed Away from the Film Adaptation of Cats	2
Capturing the contradictory beauty of Mexico City in The Romanoffs	2
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.	2
Hopping Vampire Zombies: Hong Kong Cinema Brings Chinese Folklore to the Present	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
Changes, comings & goings	2
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)	2
“Fourth‐wall breakiness or whatevs”: Presumed self‐awareness in American superhero comics	1
Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and FilmBy FranBigman, New York: Routledge, 2024. 187 pp. $180.00 (pbk)	1
What's in a Kiss? Attachments to the “True Love Kiss” Motif in QueerSleeping BeautyRetellings	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
American Spaces and Places and the Myth of the Serial Killer: Netflix’s Mindhunter (2017–19)	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
Sadist, Land Shark, and Reptile: Autumn de Wilde's EMMA.	1
Toward a pulp criminology: The Vee Brown and Needle Mike series	1
Coin‐Op conspiracies: Nostalgia and moral panic in the video arcade	1
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
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture and Political Transformation in Poland. EwaStanczyk. Ohio State UP, 2022, 211 pp. $34.95 paper.	1
Asian Political Cartoons. John A.Lent, UP of Mississippi, 2023. 301 pp. $30.00 paper.	1
Despondent superheroes and cosmic horror: Posthumanism and antihumanism in Jack Kirby's cosmic mythos	1
Mystery Science Theater 3000: A Cultural History. By MattFoy and Christopher J.Olson, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. pp. 173. $36.00 (hbk)	1

Will the real faker please do a shoulder roll? Bodies, labor, and ideology in esports	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
“A Really Dark Landscape”: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Modest Mouse's The Moon & Antarctica	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
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
How documentaries went mainstream: A history, 1960–2022 By NoraStone, New York: Oxford university press. 2023. pp. 234. $125.00 (cloth)	1
“What You Need is a GoodOld‐FashionedSpanking”: Childishness, Sexuality, and Appropriative Settler Identity inBlue Hawaii	1
Border Crossings: Space and Place in Crime Fiction	1
Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By ChristaSalamandra, NourHalabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)	1
Unfamiliar Races in Untimely Places:Anti‐Essentialismand the Science Fiction Television SeriesThe Expanse	1
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Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming. Amanda AnnKlein. Duke UP, 2021. 248 pp. $25.95 paperback.	1
Anime's knowledge cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai By JinyingLi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 344. $30.00 (paperback)	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
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
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s. NoelBrown. Edinburgh UP, 2021. 232 pp. $100.00 cloth.	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 Batman in the Jar: The Legacy of John Rollin Ridge's Joaquín Murieta and the Construction of American Hero	1
Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film. BradWeismann. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 249 pp. $25.00 paper.	1
From femme fatale to love goddess:Nineteenth‐centuryimages of women in sixties San Francisco psychedelic rock posters	1
A BA (Hons) in “Curb your Enthusiasm”? The Campus Novel Today	1
Welcome to fuckin' Letterkenny: Conceptualizing a modern Progymnasmata	0
Less Punk, More Splatter: Heavy Metal, Horror Video, and the Literary Nasties of Shaun Hutson	0
Intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations & cinematic representations of Blackness By CharleneRegester, CynthiaBaron, Ellen C.Scott, Terri SimoneFrancis, Robin G.Vander (Eds.), Jackson, MS: Un	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
Sex and the City: A Cultural History. NicoleEvelina. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 316 pp. $36.00 paper.	0
Adapt and Resist: Infrapolitics in Steve McQueen’s 12YearsaSlave	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
Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical	0
“All creatures great and small, welcome”: Animating accessible world design	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
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
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
Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture. By James V.Morrison, London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 233 pp. $33.54 (obk)	0
Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in “Stranger Things” and 1980s Film. Melissa VosenCallens. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 198 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
Of Superheroes and SJWs: Media and Fans Framing the Impact of Diversity in 2010s Comic Books	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
Aleksandar Prokopiev’s “The Huntsman” as a Postmodern/Postfeminist Rewriting of “Little Snow White”	0
Next Generation Adaptation. Allen H.Redmon. UP of Mississippi, 2021. 211 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
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#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Sarah J.Jackson, MoyaBailey, and Brooke FoucaultWelles. MIT Press, 2020. 296 pp. $19.95 paper.	0
Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies. MichaelLechuga, UP of Mississippi. 2023. 183 pp. $25.00 paperback.	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
Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind. Edited by JustynaDeszcz‐Tryhubczak and IrenaBarbara Kalla. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 252 pp. $119.99 hardcove	0
53^rd ANNUAL PCA‐ACA MEETING OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION APRIL 5‐8, 2023 Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio, Texas	0
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
Asian Americans in the Cipher: Underground Hip Hop Aesthetics and Polycultural Coherence	0
Midnight Cinderella: Amoral Shōjo (Girl) and Japanese Girl Culture	0

Playing with Phantoms: Decoding the Ludic Language of Metal Gear Solid V	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
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Theater censorship in contemporary Europe: Silence and protest By AnnieEtienne, ChrisMegson (Eds.). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. 250. $ 112.99 (hardcover)	0
BarbaraHammer: Pushing Out of the Frame. Sarah Keller. Wayne State UP, 2021. 225 pp. $35.99 paper.	0
K‐Pop Fandom in Laos: Social Participation and Global Citizenship	0
The popularity of Korean romance novels in contemporary China: A feminist interpretation	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
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
Raising a star: Black motherhood and the politics of whiteness in the Colombian telenovela, La mamá del 10	0
Playing It Double: Dan Fesperman’s Metafictional Tribute	0
Tryin' to Get that Oil: Black Satire of the Bush Administration and the War on Terror	0
Things Can Only Get Stranger: Theoretical and Clinical Reflections on Netflix's Stranger Things	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
Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification. RobertGoldman. Temple UP, 2021. 233 pp. $34.95 paper.	0
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California gothic: The dark side of the dream By Charles L.Crow, New York: Anthem Press. 2024. pp. 86. $23.95 (pbk)	0
The Hallucinatory Landscape in Twentieth‐Century American Poetry	0
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
“I feel like a ‘cyber‐gypsy’”: BL fanfiction writers in China's changing landscape of fandom culture	0
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. MiaMask. U of Illinois P, 2023. 296 pp. $14.95 ebook.	0
White Skin and the Black Mask™	0
Imagined Adversaries: Criminality and Border Formation in Dave Hutchinson’s Europe in Autumn	0
An Idea of Africa in “We Are the World”: Decontextualization, Celebrity Savior Complex, Race, and Neoliberal Charity	0
Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self‐Control	0
Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz. Gretchen L.Carlson. UP of Mississippi, 2022. 224 pp. $30.00 paper.	0
Star wars: The hidden empire	0
Broad City: Millennial Women Surviving the Neoliberal Gig Economy in Comedy Television	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 (hardcover	0
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Baseball: The turbulent midcentury years By Steven PhilipGietschier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 568. $44.95 (cloth).	0
Cobra Kai Never Dies! Generational seriality and revived legacies of The Karate Kid	0
Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and GenreMichael K.Johnson. University of Nebraska Press, 2023. 286 pp. $99.00 cloth.	0
“When It Comes to Crime, I’m a Nationalist”: National Integrity, Neocolonialism, and the Kenyan Detective Thriller	0
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“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
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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
Is this the Greatest Show? Neoliberal Myth‐Making in TheGreatestShowman	0
Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City. Shanté ParadigmSmalls. New York UP, 2022. 216 pp. $28.00 paperback.	0
Quasi‐color consciousness: Casting, race, and sexual violence in Netflix's Bridgerton	0
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
Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States. SaraAustin. Ohio State UP, 2022. 180 pp. $32.95 e‐book.	0
Doctor Who and the Responsibility to Protect: Public Perspectives of Atrocity Crimes	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
Sex Work in Popular CultureBy LaurenKirshner, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 400 pp. €208.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781487537104	0
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The Mom Thriller: Motherhood on the Edge	0
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
Grand‐Guignolesque: Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre. Richard J.Hand and MichaelWilson. U of Exeter P, 2022. 264 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
CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place	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
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
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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
Heroic girls as figures of resistance and futurity in popular culture By SimonBacon (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 290. $180.00 (hbk)	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
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine	0
Touristic World‐Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations. By VassiliosZiakas, ChristineLundberg, and MariaLexhagen (eds.), Bristol: Channel View Publications. 2024. 248 pp. $44.95 (pa	0
Doing Your Thing After the End of the World: How the Middle Class Survived the Apocalypse	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
Making Music in Music City: Conversations with Nashville Industry Music Professionals. JohnMarkert. U of Tennessee P, 2021. 218 pp. $34.95 hardcover.	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
“You’re a Chancellor, Not a GIF”: Angela Merkel in the Popular Imagination	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
Interpretation in reverse: Remixing the Three Kingdoms	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
Cutting the Biker’s Coif: Hair as the Visual Rhetoric of the Son of Anarchy	0
“I am my brother's keeper”: Heteronormativity and the Straight Sister inLGBTQYoung Adult Literature	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
Choreographed Fan Displays: The Case of Israeli Sports	0
Counter‐hegemonic sport: Constructing alternative sports narratives in Indian cinema	0
Year of the Cat: Abuse, Healing, and Intergenerational Trauma in Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket	0
Autistic‐coded representation and autism stereotypes: Looking for the spectrum By MartinBrick, New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 160. $100.00 (hbk)	0
Enclosure, Ideology, Migration: Filmic Formalism in Bong Joon‐ho's Snowpiercer	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
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
Fans on the silver screen: Portrayals of fandom in the Marvel Cinematic Universe	0

Out of Step with the World: Minor Threat and “Normal as Abnormal” Dress in Representation of Alterity and Authenticity	0
Rape in Period Drama Television: Consent, Myth, and Fantasy. KatherineByrne and Julie AnneTaddeo. Lexington Books, 2022. 143 pp. $95.00 hardcover.	0
Beyond Queering Elsa: The Erotics of Touch in Disney's Frozen Series	0
Evil Voices in Popular Fictions: The Case ofThe Exorcist	0
The Survivor Cross‐Season Narrative and Its Debt to Soap Opera	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
Science Fiction and the Absurd: Lauren Olamina as a Symbol of Hope in Butler's Parables	0
Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound. Yael Levy. Syracuse UP, 2022, 179 pp. $24.95 paper.	0
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder. DavidBordwell. Columbia UP, 2023. 512 pp. $32.00 paper.	0
Why We Hate‐Watch: The Role of Nostalgia and Investment in WWE Viewership	0
Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars By Rachel E.Dubrofsky, University of Mississippi Press. 2022. 174 pp. $30.00 paper	0
Serazio, Michael. The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture. New York UP, 2019. 400 pp. $35.00 paper.	0
The Legacy of Allende’s Revolutionary Cultural Politics, 1970–73	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 size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel	0
Communities of Women in Acevedos's With the Fire on High (2019) and Clap When You Land (2020)	0
Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions. Francesca T.Royster, University of Texas Press, 2022. 230 pp. $24.95 cloth.	0
I'm a Wild Seed. SharonLee De La Cruz, Street Noise Books, 2021. 96 pp. $12.99 paper.	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
They also served: Nurses, the great war, and children's picture books	0
Mr. Donkey from Stage to Screen: Insights into the Film Adaptation of Drama IPs in China	0
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Women’s Lived Experience and the Male Gaze inBig Little Lies	0
A Dunkirk Hype/What's Behind a Hype?	0
Picto‐verbal representation: Types and features of unreliable narration in comics	0
More Than Friends from Work: The Guardians of the Galaxy, Families, and Resilient Placemaking for Millennials	0
Digital Black Feminism. Catherine Knight Steele. New York UP, 2021. 208 pp. $27.00 paper.	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
Understanding and Translating Chinese Martial Arts. By DanJiao, DefengLi, LingweiMeng, YuhongPeng (Eds.), Singapore: Springer, 2023. 138 pp. €129.99 hardcover.	0
Toys, Comics and Transmedia Play: Tracing the connections between multidimensional storytelling and playability	0
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Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail‐Order Marriage. MarciaZug. New York U P, 2016. 305 pp. $30.00 cloth.	0
Global Literature and the EnvironmentBy MatthewWhittle, Jade MunslowOng, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 226. $46.99 (Pbk)	0
From Shark Bait to final girl in filmic horror: Young women, killer sharks, and the Monstrous‐Masculine	0
Hollywood Sports Movies and the American Dream. GrantWiedenfeld. Oxford UP, 2022. 282 pp. $35.00 paper.	0
The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. NicholasCarnes, Lilly J.Goren. UP of Kansas, 2023. 419 pp. $29.95. paper.	0
The Human–Nonhuman Connected Body in the Era of Climate Change: Interpreting Bong Joon‐ho's FilmSnowpiercerfrom the Perspective ofActor‐NetworkTheory	0
Past and Present Crimes in Sápmi: Lars Pettersson and Olivier Truc	0
The New Gods: Free Will, Determinism, and AI in Westworld and DEVS	0
Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture. TylerBickford. Duke UP, 2020. 229 pp. $25.95 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
The Death and Resurrection of Oshun in Beyoncé'sLemonade: Subverting the Institutionalized Borders of Western Christian Thought in American Popular Culture	0
“Man, I Told You Not to Go in that House”: The Humor and Horror of Jordan Peele’s Get Out	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
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
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
EricSmoodin. Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light. 1930–1950. Duke UP, 2020. 224 pp. $25.95 paper.	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
Orphan Black and Radicalizing White Femininity for the Revolution	0
Studying crime in fiction: An introduction By EricSandberg, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 204. £35.99 (pbk)	0
First‐Person Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula	0
Using Graphic Novels in the English Language Arts Classroom. WilliamBoerman‐Cornell and JungKim. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 224 pp. $29.95 paper.	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
West Side Story: The Jets, The Sharks, and the Making of a Classic. RichardBarrios. Running Press, 2020. 221 pp. $28.00 cloth.	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
Whose Game: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports. Rebecca JoyceKissane and SarahWinslow. Temple UP, 2020. 231 pp. $34.95 paper.	0
Editorial: Changes to the Editorship	0
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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
Cinema in the Arab world: New histories, new approaches By IfdalElsaket, PhilippeMeers, DanielBiltereyst, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2023. pp. 304. $76.00 (paperback)	0
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Sitcom as refuge, sitcom as prison: Nostalgia, anti‐nostalgia, and the embedded multi‐camera sitcom inWandaVisionandKevin Can F**k Himself	0
Bootylicious Yellow Bone: Beyoncé's Physicality as a Site of Racialized, Socio‐Political Angst Concerning Beauty, Class, and Essentialized Blackness	0
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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
Concrete Expressionism: Harley Earl, William France, and NASCAR Aesthetics	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
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Themeatics: The art of hyperreality	0
Tiktok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By TrevorBoffone, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)	0
“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema	0
Brigman Award Winner: Foxy Ladies and Badass Super Agents: Legacies of 1970s Blaxploitation Spy and Detective Heroines	0
Editorial: Banning Maus	0
“We're in the Endgame Now”: Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame as Contemporary Absurdism	0
Stephen King and American Politics. Michael J.Blouin. U of Wales P, 2021. 256 pp. $57.00 paper.	0
The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made	0
Stephen King's evolution on race: Re‐reading Duma Key	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
The Hetaera's Monster: The Sublime Mother in the Slasher Film Genre	0
True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us. Danielle J.Lindemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 352 pp. $20.00 paper.	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
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
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
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
For love and money: Navigating values at the antiques roadshow event	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
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Nihilism, Violence, and Popular Culture: The Postmodern Psychopath in Toby Fox’sUndertale	0
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In Memoriam: Pearl Bowser	0
The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent	0
She‐Ra and the Princesses of Power as Queer Monomyth	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