JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE最新文献

{"title":"Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the SuperheroBy Smith, Troy, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2024. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4968-5168-0","authors":"Mark John Isola","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"95-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299603","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":"Immortal Films: Casablanca and the Afterlife of a Hollywood ClassicBy Barbara Klinger, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-0-52-029647-3","authors":"Daniel P. Murphy","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"93-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299521","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":"Marisa Scheinfeld's Art of Adventure","authors":"Timothy Roy Gleason","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13611","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Marisa Scheinfeld's 2016 book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland, is a visual communication package that offers a short history of the region's role in Jewish tourism and her photographs of the remaining hotels. This research examines how Scheinfeld created a book of remembrance while being optimistic in the regeneration of New York's Catskills. The Borscht Belt is told through an interpretation of a purposive sample of photographs that demonstrate Scheinfeld's photographic style and how the photographs are connected through their placement in the book. Additional background was provided by Scheinfeld through an interview with the author. The book is a vital connection between the region's history and its future.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"53-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300495","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":"Code: From Information Theory to French TheoryBy Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 258 pp. $26.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1478019008","authors":"Andrew Kettler","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"81-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300494","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":"Ideology and Oppression: Dr. Flint as the Antagonist in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl","authors":"Eric Brown","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13610","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, originally published in 1861, is a seminal work that provides a profound and emotive account of an enslaved Black woman's struggle for freedom and self-determination. This paper explores the role of ideology and representation in Jacobs's portrayal of Dr. Flint, the primary antagonist, through the lenses of Louis Althusser's and Jacques Lacan's theories. By analyzing the narrative techniques and symbolic language employed by Jacobs, this study reveals how Dr. Flint embodies the systemic oppressive forces of slavery. The paper argues that Jacobs's depiction of Dr. Flint not only underscores the dehumanizing nature of slavery but also serves as a tool of ideological resistance, highlighting the unique challenges faced by enslaved women. This analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of how literary devices in slave narratives can illuminate the broader social and power dynamics of the antebellum South. Ultimately, this paper aims to shed light on the complexities of Jacobs's narrative strategies and their impact on both contemporary and modern readers.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"45-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300475","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":"Poetic Form as Détournement in the Documentary Work of Layli Long Soldier, Marwa Helal, and Reginald Dwayne Betts","authors":"Tara Ballard","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13609","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Like many writers have done, Ruth Wilson Gilmore considers Audre Lorde's powerful statement that “the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house” (&lt;span&gt;2007&lt;/span&gt;, 112) in order to wrestle with its parameters and deliberate on its terms. In &lt;i&gt;Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation&lt;/i&gt;, Gilmore, in effect, further develops what Lorde states and poses a similar premise in question form: “Rather, who controls the conditions and the ends to which any tools are wielded?” (&lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;, 79). Gilmore follows this line of inquiry by asserting an expansion of Lorde's original idea: “If the master loses control of the means of production, he is no longer the master” (&lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;, 79). In other words, if those who labor determine the manner in which something might be made, or, if those who labor decide upon the circumstances in which a tool might be employed, the status quo could then be destabilized. Here, then, lies a possibility for rupture, and, when applied to poetry, the likelihood of something politically provocative as well. A clear parallel can be found between Gilmore's reformulation and the practice of contemporary documentary poetry, which is broadly defined as a subgenre that references, considers, or reformulates historical happenings or integrates sociopolitical, cultural, or historical documentation into poem form wherein the poet themselves may be regarded as “documenter.” With this practice in mind, it is possible for a poet, as text-worker, to identify a tool used by the master and to redeploy that tool for other purposes. An example of such redeployment exists in the documentary poems of Layli Long Soldier, Marwa Helal, and Reginald Dwayne Betts, all of whom repurpose tools in order to disrupt, reclarify, or provide a counter-narrative to that which is declared by the state to be accurate.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To better examine the manner in which these three writers determine the purpose of poem production, I turn to the concept of “détournement” as developed by Guy Debord in collaboration with Gil J. Wolman. In &lt;i&gt;The Society of the Spectacle&lt;/i&gt;, for example, Debord argues for “the reversal of established relationships between concepts” so that the “reversed genitive” may serve “as an expression of historical revolutions distilled into a form of thought” which would intend to “resto[re…] subversive qualities to past critical judgments that have congealed into respectable truths—in other words, that have been transformed into lies” (1994, 144). Debord claims that such a reversal allows for a restoration of a “kernel of truth” that is “capable of disturbing or overthrowing any existing order” as it emerges from a sense of “self-knowledge in conjunction with historical action” (1994, 146). Ian Buchanan synopsizes Debord's and Wolman's use of the concept in their “A User's Guide to Détournement” in his own &lt;i&gt;A Dictionary of Critical Theory&lt;/i&gt;. Buchanan writes that détournement “must negate the ideological condition","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"23-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jacc.13609","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Poor Things: How Those With Money Depict Those Without ItBy Lennard J. Davis, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4780-3102-4","authors":"Theodore Bain","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"91-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299714","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":"The Postapocalyptic Frontier Hero: The (Weird) Western, Cowboy Masculinity, and Regenerative Violence in The Last of Us (2013)","authors":"Teresa Pereira","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13612","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The following article argues that Naughty Dog's The Last of Us is a Weird Western that, despite imaginatively reinventing the Western genre by setting it in a near-future, postapocalyptic United States, reiterates many of its core tenets. Among these are the inclusion of a cowboy-like, white, male hero, namely the game's protagonist, Joel Miller, and the depiction of gruesome violence as both regenerative and justified. To conduct this analysis, the article adopts a cultural studies perspective, bringing together different disciplines that engage in the field of American studies, namely literary criticism, film studies, gender studies, and game studies, while also relying heavily on Bogost's concept of procedural rhetoric.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"63-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299791","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":"The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, GovernanceBy Mark Rifkin, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-1478030003","authors":"Andrew Kettler","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"85-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299803","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":"Terrence Malick and the Examined LifeBy Martin Woessner, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 416 pp. ISBN: 9781512825602","authors":"Daniel C. Charlton","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 2","pages":"89-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144299641","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}