{"title":"Correction to Will the real faker please do a shoulder roll? Bodies, labor, and ideology in esports","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13373","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pate, George. 2024. “Will the Real Faker Please Do a Shoulder Roll? Bodies, Labor, and Ideology in Esports.” <i>The Journal of Popular Culture 57</i>(2): 106–117. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13321.</p><p>In paragraph 3, the sentence “Studying video games with a focus on the ways performing bodies make offers a unique contribution by shifting the locus of inquiries regarding gaming and ideology onto the physical performances of the actual players as well as the ways the gaming industry and surrounding culture frame those performances” was missing the word “meaning” after “performing bodies make.” It should read “Studying video games with a focus on the ways performing bodies make <i>meaning</i> offers a unique contribution by shifting the locus of inquiries regarding gaming and ideology onto the physical performances of the actual players as well as the ways the gaming industry and surrounding culture frame those performances.”</p><p>Additionally, the game <i>Rivals of Aether</i> was misspelled as <i>Rivals of Ether</i> on p. 113.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13373","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyoncé's “break my soul”: An anthem of courage, resistance, peace, and community","authors":"Neal A. Lester","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13374","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2023, Beyoncé became the artist with the most Grammys in music history. Her dance track, “Break My Soul,” from her <i>Renaissance</i> album,* is a radical statement about community and self-affirmation grounded in Black and queer cultural specificity. This article explores “Break My Soul” as an anthem of uplift, advice, and unity that offers hope and reprieve to a world emerging from a global pandemic and a “racial reckoning” galvanized by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"320-335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cultural construction of hidden spaces: Essays on pockets, pouches, and secret drawers By James Brown, Anna Jamieson, Naomi Segal (Eds.), Boston, MA: Brill. 2024. pp. 352. $155.00 (hbk).","authors":"Lin Wu, Jing Yin","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13380","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"378-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why any woman: Feminism and popular culture in the late twentieth-century South By Keira V. Williams. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. 2023. pp. 236. $29.95 (pbk)","authors":"Manus Aisha","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"371-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quasi-color consciousness: Casting, race, and sexual violence in Netflix's Bridgerton","authors":"Emma Lynn","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13375","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The hit Netflix series <i>Bridgerton</i> (2020–) updates the period drama for the twenty-first century with its racially diverse cast. Despite the series' potential for subverting racial hierarchies, this article argues that <i>Bridgerton</i> does not fully account for racist social structures, replicates racial stereotypes, and, most crucially, delegitimizes Black men as victims of sexual violence. These representational quandaries stem from <i>Bridgerton</i>'s use of the casting and narrative practice “quasi-color consciousness.” Quasi-color consciousness provides more nuanced language beyond colorblind casting to account for television producers' efforts (and shortcomings) to create racially diverse contemporary television programming.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"308-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13375","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The flesh of animation: Bodily sensations in film and digital media By Sandra Annett. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 288. $29.00 (pbk)","authors":"Mansi Tiwari","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"373-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The gothic and twenty-first-century American popular culture By Anna Marta Marini, Michael Fuchs (Eds.), Boston, MA: Brill. 2024. p. 248. £105.84 (hbk)","authors":"Lin Wu, Ziwei Yan","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"375-377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playing the percentages: How film distribution made the Hollywood studio system By Derek Long. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. pp. 296. $55.00 (hbk)","authors":"Wayne E. Arnold","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"369-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142867955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating the viewer: Market research and the evolving media ecosystem By Justin Wyatt. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. pp. 288. $105.00 (hbk)","authors":"Arya Priyadarshini","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"367-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical","authors":"Emry Sottile","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13371","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As musical theater has gained traction with younger audiences, producers have put out numerous new shows that focus on the modern high school experience in an attempt to capture this target audience. Social media has moved beyond being an off-stage marketing tactic and has since warped into an on-stage plot device to feel authentic to audiences. Through analyzing <i>Dear Evan Hansen</i>, <i>The Prom</i>, and <i>Teenage Dick</i>, social media in contemporary theater is a proven means to stay relevant to young audiences that can highlight the unificatory and divisive nature of digital spaces with respect to twenty-first century adolescence and identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"296-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}