{"title":"What It Means to Be a Talking Object: Ishiguro’s Use of AI Narration in Klara and the Sun","authors":"Heather Humann","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Set in a dystopian version of the United States, Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun relies heavily on the narrative technique of de-familiarization. This sense becomes clear from the novel’s opening passages, which take place in a store that displays Artificial","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protest, Humor, and the Nigerian Establishment in Selected COVID-19 Facebook Texts","authors":"Nurudeen Adeshina Lawal, Rabiu Iyanda","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, political protest motifs in selected COVID-19 pandemic Facebook posts ARE explored. Using Claude Ake’s postcolonial insight as a theoretical paradigm, the study analyzes ten COVID-19 pandemic Facebook posts during the 2020 lockdown and post","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Dr. Heather Humann, The 2023 Recipient of the Felicia Campbell Innovative Contributions to Popular Culture Studies Award","authors":"Amy M. Green, Heather Humann","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"I am pleased to share with our readers my interview with Dr. Heather Humann for this issue. She is the 2023 recipient of the Felicia Campbell Innovative Contributions to Popular Culture Studies Award. Her work covers a wide-ranging number of topics relate","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Cynthia Sample’s Forms of Defiance","authors":"Karyn Stacey Panem","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Put simply, Forms of Defiance by Cynthia Sample is a catalogue of encounters. It is an unyielding investigation into the deepest depths of the human condition. The collection spans three distinct and unique sections, stratifying the experience for our und","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pepe versus Kermit: A Memetic Battleground about Latina/o/ecentric Immigration and Policy","authors":"Kaitlin Thomas","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Alt-right “Pepe the Frog” and left-leaning “That’s None of my Business Kermit” memes rose to prominence in the months preceding and the days following the 2016 presidential election. They were used on digital meme-centric battlegrounds to tackle issues re","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"290 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Epistemology and Metaphysics Touch in Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Gary Ross’s Pleasantville","authors":"Seth Vannatta","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that Lowry’s novel, The Giver, falls short of a consistent philosophical premise regarding the establishment of Sameness in the novel because it vacillates between a metaphysical and an epistemological understanding of Sameness. On the o","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Boffone & Herrera’s Latinx Teens","authors":"Erika Abad","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Each chapter of Latinx Teens focuses on television, film, books, stage, and public influence. In so doing, they provide a foundational discussion on twenty-first century fictional and cultural significant Latinx teens across various aspects of popular cul","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Lack of Joi: Hegemonic Femininity and the Male Gaze in Blade Runner: 2049","authors":"Ashley McCann, Erika Engstrom","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how the 2017 film Blade Runner: 2049 reinforces a patriarchal viewpoint utilizing hegemonic femininity and the male gaze as theoretical approaches. The holographic character Joi’s appearance and interactions with the male protagonist","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Parallax: Hollywood’s Recent Approach to Mitigating Racial Excess","authors":"Felicia Cosey","doi":"10.18278/pcr.34.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18278/pcr.34.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that from 2013 to 2021 Hollywood filmmakers have favored casting Black British actors to play Black American characters in dramas dealing with racism and oppression in the US in order to remove the racial excess associated with Black Ame","PeriodicalId":296725,"journal":{"name":"Popular Culture Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135529057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}