[Commlist] Popular Culture Studies Journal Vol 7 No 2 published

Popular Culture Studies Journal Vol 7 No 2 Released

The Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association 
announces the latest release of its journal, the /Popular Culture 
Studies Journal/. The issues is online and free to access: 
http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/current-issue/vol-7-no-2. 


This issue features the inaugural Student Showcase to present 
outstanding undergraduate and graduate student work in the field of 
popular culture studies. Eleven students, including one undergraduate, 
have their work featured in this issue in a section that will now become 
a part of all issues going forward.

The issue also features work from more established academics as well as 
scholarly reviews of books, films, TV shows, and games.

Anyone interested in submitting or reviewing articles for the journal 
should contact us (pcsj /at/ mpcaaca.org) or via our website 
http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/.

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Introduction: Students and the Future of Popular Culture Studies
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

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STUDENT SHOWCASE

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The White Knight of Jones County: American Monomyth and White Savior 
Narratives in Free State of Jones
Taylor Katz

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“Give Me the Seth Rogan Laugh”: This Is the End and Parafictional Persona
Bradley J. Dixon

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The Picture of Marilyn Monroe: How Oscar Wilde Predicts the Frightening 
Afterlife of the Dead Celebrity Persona
Brady Simenson

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The “Worlding” of the Muslim Superheroine: An Analysis of Ms. Marvel‘s 
Kamala Khan
Safiyya Hosein

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“Grave and Growing Threats”: The Association of Small Bombs and the 
Persistence of Post-9/11 Narratives
Lizzie Martin

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Nia Nal the Super Girl: Transgender Representation and Body Image
Sarah F. Price

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Shabash, the First-ever Bangladeshi Superhero: Transnational, 
Transcultural and Transcreated
Anis Rahman

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“The Mission Comes First”: Representations and Expectations of Labor in 
Travelers
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman

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Embracing the Bad Victim: Sexual Violence and Sympathy on Popular Television
Shadia Siliman

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Look at What You’ve Done: Exploring Narrative Displeasure in Video Games
Steven Proudfoot

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“An Unadulterated Cultural Expressway for the Arts”: Exploring the 
Theoretical Possibilities of byNWR.com
Christopher J. Olson

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REGULAR SUBMISSIONS

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“They See a Caricature”: Expanding Media Representations of Black 
Identity in Dear White People
Graeme John Wilson

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Fleischer Studio’s Superman and a Darker Side of the “Good War”
Allan W. Austin

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The Myth of the Perfect Place: Creating a Voyeuristic Utopia in House 
Hunters International
Emily Sauter and Kevin Sauter

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Fighters and Fathers: Managing Masculinity in Contemporary Boxing Cinema
Joshua Sopiarz

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Conspiracy, Poverty, and Lost Children in Tracy Lett’s Bug and The X-Files
Thomas Fahy

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Scholarly Parody: Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Bill Clough

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Between Mimicry and Difference: Performing Elvis(es)
Beth Emily Richards

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REVIEWS

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The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction
Christopher J. Olson
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