{"title":"Video game characters and transmedia storytelling: The dynamic game character By Joleen Blom, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2023. pp. 208. €104.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Stephanie O' Dell Daugherity","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13356","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"342-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711892","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":"Theater censorship in contemporary Europe: Silence and protest By Annie Etienne, Chris Megson (Eds.). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. 250. $ 112.99 (hardcover)","authors":"Julia Sweet","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"348-349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869127","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":"Happy eating and food addiction in American advertising By Debbie Danowski. New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 232. $100.00 (Hardcover)","authors":"Edith Ritt-Coulter","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"346-347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868955","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 ivory tower, Harry Potter, and beyond: More essays on the works of J.K. Rowling By Lana A. Whited (Ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2023. pp. 424. $55.00 (hbk)","authors":"Amy Leshinsky","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"344-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868954","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":"Hollywood and history: What the movies get wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam By Jem Duducu, New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 2023. 264 pp. $38.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Anastasia Pratt","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"340-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868953","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":"Interpretation in reverse: Remixing the Three Kingdoms","authors":"Yiwen Wang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates online fan video remixes that combine footage from the televisual adaptation of the Chinese classic <i>The Romance of Three Kingdoms</i>, set in ancient China, with soundtracks from the American science fiction film <i>Inception</i> (2010) and the magical fantasy <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i> (2011). Analyzing the audio-visual aesthetics of these videos, I propose a reversal of Henry Jenkins's “additive comprehension” framework, which suggests that fan works aim to interpret and complete the original story-verse. Instead, I argue these videos reverse the process of interpretation through temporal–spatial transportation and corporeal transfiguration with false continuity editing, acousmatic aesthetics, and gravitational disorientation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"233-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967295","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 Freaks came out to write: The definitive history of the “Village Voice” the radical paper that changed American culture By Tricia Romano. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2024. pp. 608. $35 (hardcover)","authors":"Keaton Studebaker","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13353","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"338-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368460","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":"Intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations & cinematic representations of Blackness By Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, Robin G. Vander (Eds.), Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. pp. 288. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Carl C. Clark","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13350","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"336-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141387795","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":"Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By Christa Salamandra, Nour Halabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"276-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966726","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":"Bootlegging the airwaves: Alternative histories of radio and television distribution By Eleanor Patterson, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 192. $28.00 (paperback)","authors":"Christine F. Smith","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"274-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967744","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}