Volume 25.2 | Summer 2014
Table of Contents
From the Editor’s Desk State of the Redneck in the Early 21 Century: The Case of Jeff Foxworthy Ric Jahna From Work to Text: Reading The Raven Waits as Beowulf Fan Fiction Maura Grady Confessions of a Thirty-Something English Professor and Gamer: TEDx and the Importance of Video Games Amy Green The Manichean Dimension of Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad Richard Logsdon Herodotus and Bob Woodward: A Comparison Helmut G Loeffler “Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip/ and come up to the Mothership”: P. Funk’s “Mothership Connection (Starchild)” and the Tropes of Science Fiction David Sandner Scare the Hell Out of Them: Christian Horror in Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker’s House Rebecca Branstetter Pink is the New Black: 50s Color Noir, the “Fatal Man,” and the “Femme” Detective in A Kiss Before Dying Robert Miklitsch BOOK REVIEWS Soul of the Dark Knight: Batman as Mythic Figure in Comics and Film, by Alex M. Wainer Reviewed by John May |