{"title":"“All creatures great and small, welcome”: Animating accessible world design","authors":"Rebecca Rowe","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13362","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13362","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using four animated texts about anthropomorphic animals—<i>Zootopia</i> (2016), <i>Sing</i> (2016), <i>Sing 2</i> (2021), and <i>Zootopia+</i> (2022)—this article explores two related questions: How can animated films featuring cities for anthropomorphic animals rethink accessibility? How is accessibility sustained and/or adapted through continuations as seen in franchises and transmedia storytelling? I argue that the two series I analyze offer two different approaches to accessibility and the maintenance of it, one which works better than the other. This comparison suggests that accessibility needs to be an integral part of world design from the very beginning in order to stay stable over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"285-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141671730","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":"Anime's knowledge cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai By Jinying Li. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 344. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Min Joo Lee","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"352-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681337","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 new Nancy: Flexible and relatable daily comics in the twenty-first century By Jeff Karnicky, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 208. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Tanya Goyal","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"350-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141682764","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":"Star wars: The hidden empire","authors":"Azzan Yadin-Israel","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13359","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The remarkable cultural vitality of <i>Star Wars</i> and the subsequent franchise is due in part to the way in which it simultaneously builds on and bolsters the Gramscian “common sense” that America is not an empire. Like the Western, <i>Star Wars</i> uses apolitical individualism to portray political actions as the result of individuals' search for freedom, while representing the galaxy as home to a single, evil Empire. These narrative mechanisms, invite the viewers of <i>Star Wars</i> to think of the United States as a ragtag group of fighters battling an oppressive empire, but not itself an empire.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"247-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141688362","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":"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}