Volume 34.1  |  SPRING 2023

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Table of Contents

Editor’s Note
Amy M. Green

Interview with Dr. Heather Humann, The 2023 Recipient of the Felicia Campbell Innovative Contributions to Popular Culture Studies Award
Amy M. Green

What It Means to Be a Talking Object:
Ishiguro’s Use of AI Narration in Klara and the Sun
Heather Humann

A Lack of Joi: Hegemonic Femininity and
the Male Gaze in Blade Runner: 2049
Ashley McCann and Erika Engstrom

Where Epistemology and Metaphysics Touch in
Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Gary Ross’s Pleasantville
Seth Vannatta

Black Parallax: Hollywood’s Recent Approach to
Mitigating Racial Excess
Felicia Cosey

Protest, Humor, and the Nigerian Establishment in
Selected COVID-19 Facebook Texts
Nurudeen Adeshina Lawal and Rabiu Iyanda

Pepe versus Kermit: A Memetic Battleground about
Latina/o/e-centric Immigration and Policy
Kaitlin Thomas

Book Reviews
Forms of Defiance by Cynthia Sample
Reviewed by Karyn Stacey Panem

Latinx Teens by Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera
Reviewed by Erika Abad

Author Bios