Volume 26.1 | winter 2015
Table of Contents
From the Editor’s Desk “another old Buddhist monastery thing": The Misguided Zen of Fight Club Todd Giles Carrying the Whole Black Race: Woody Strode, John Ford, and the Trials of Blackness Frank E. Dobson Seeking Grace: The Tempest, Race Relations, and American Popular Culture Michelle Villanueva Richard Matheson and the Twilight Fantastic Daniel Ferreras Savoye Postmodern Pastiche: Following the Path of Productive Parody on Sesame Street Marci Mazzarotto The Last of the Crass: Understanding the Shifting Values of Punk Subculture Chase D. Cartwright Digitizing and Downloading Culture: Museums in the Age of Multimedia Heather Lusty The American Ebola “Crisis” Did Not Take Place: A Baudrillardian Interpretation of a Manufactured Pseudo-Event Keith Moser The Truth So Help Me God Ross Talarico BOOK REVIEWS Comics Through Time: A History of icons, Idols, and Ideas by M. Keith Booker Reviewed by Shaun Leonard Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen by Sherrie Tucker Reviewed by Margot Mink Colbert Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness by Erika Engstrom, Tracy Lucht, Jane Marcellus, and Kimberly Wilmot Voss Reviewed by Heather Lusty Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense: A Popular Writer Transcends Genres by Carlos Ramet Reviewed by Kim Idol Japanese and American Horror: A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games by Katarzyna Marak Reviewed by John J. May Kill For Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War by Matthew Israel Reviewed by Tatiana Prorokova Contributors |