{"title":"Pictures and the past: Media, memory, and the specter of fascism in postmodern art By Alexander Bigman, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 256. £26.97(hbk)","authors":"Lin Wu","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"53-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822084","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":"Woke women of the 90s return: Toxic white feminism and the Murphy Brown and Roseanne reboots","authors":"Amanda Konkle","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13389","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two feminist icons of the 1990s returned to network television in 2018: Murphy Brown and Roseanne Conner. Neither rebooted character survived the reboot's first season. Despite their attempts to demonstrate that they were “woke,” the acting styles and strong personas of these two icons were, this paper argues, not appealing to a younger generation of television viewers and feminists and, simultaneously, too progressive for the older and more conventional audiences of the networks on which they aired. Moreover, both leading characters demonstrated the narrowmindedness associated with a toxic white feminism that overlooks issues of class and race.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 4","pages":"150-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144869330","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":"Work and labor in American popular culture: Representation in film, music and television in the 1970s and 1980s By Jason Russell, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 96. £48.99 (hbk)","authors":"Yuwei Huang, Li Lin","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"37-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822108","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":"Imperiled whiteness: How Hollywood and media make race in “postracial” America By Penelope Ingram, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. pp. 392. $30.00 (pbk)","authors":"Ann M. Ciasullo","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13392","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"45-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822099","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 Disney + Kingdom: Essays on nostalgia, representation and branding By David Whitt and John Perlich (Eds.), Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company. 2024. pp. 203. $49.95 (pbk)","authors":"Allison Wilson","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"49-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822109","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":"Autistic-coded representation and autism stereotypes: Looking for the spectrum By Martin Brick, New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 160. $100.00 (hbk)","authors":"Eric Deutsch","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"43-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822256","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":"AI-generated popular culture: A semiotic perspective By Marcel Danesi, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. pp. 199. £100.99 (hbk)","authors":"Shuyi Liu, Xiaohui Liang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"41-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822258","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":"Chicano Chicana Americana: Pop culture pluralism starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros By Anthony Macias. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. 2023. 246 pp. $26.95. (pbk)","authors":"Elizabeth Barahona","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13393","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"47-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822257","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":"Themeatics: The art of hyperreality","authors":"Margaret J. King","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since Disney Imagineering introduced the theme park in 1955, themeatics has ruled public space, becoming a mixed reality of virtual and nonvirtual, media and built design, as hyperreality. This “unified field theory” of the arts consolidates many styles and disciplines as mixed media, conferring meaning and engaging attention in immersive experiences that readily embody innovation. Through hyperreality, themeatics works as the dominant aesthetic now merging imagination with the experienced world. The fit between art-informed places like theme parks and the brain expands the life of the mind in culture through the scope of lived and virtual experience alike.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"7-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822305","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":"Studying crime in fiction: An introduction By Eric Sandberg, London: Routledge. 2024. pp. 204. £35.99 (pbk)","authors":"Muhsina Najeeb","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"39-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822275","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}