Volume 23.2 | Summer 2012
Table of Contents
From the Editor's Desk And Say the Zombie Responded? Or, How I Learned to Stop Living and Unlove the Undead H. Peter Steeves The Tweet Life: Philosophical Reflections on the Age of Ephemera Steven J. Ingeman Spanish Science Fiction and Its Ghosts Daniel Ferreras Savoye Fernando Angel Moreno The World Upside Down: Contributions of Three Contemporary World War II-era Novels to Popular Culture Joseph F. Ceccio Cathy M. Ceccio Tarzan and Sookie Sittin’ in a Tree Alex Vernon The Evolution of The Thing Dennis Barbour Gag Order: Muting, Mortification, and Motherhood in Eminem’s “Cleaning Out My Closet” Lynne Stahl Democracy or Decadence? A Cultural Aside to the “Golden Age” of the Pahlavi Monarchy in Iran Reza Parchizedeh BOOK REVIEWS Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence Charles R. Acland, Duke University Press, 2011 Reviewed by Gregory A. Borchard The Bride Factory: Mass Media Portrayals of Women and Weddings Erika Engstrom, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2012 Reviewed by Mindy Hutchings |