{"title":"Heroic girls as figures of resistance and futurity in popular culture By Simon Bacon (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 290. $180.00 (hbk)","authors":"Jie Guo","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"35-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822112","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":"California gothic: The dark side of the dream By Charles L. Crow, New York: Anthem Press. 2024. pp. 86. $23.95 (pbk)","authors":"June Ann T. Greeley","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"33-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822079","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":"Tiktok Broadway: Musical theater fandom in the digital age By Trevor Boffone, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 232. $34.95 (hbk)","authors":"Jessica Hillman-McCord","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"28-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822078","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":"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":"Making a scene in documentary film: Iconic filmmakers discuss what works and why By Maxine Trump, New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 222. £100.00 (hbk)","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13384","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"30-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822101","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":"“I feel like a ‘cyber-gypsy’”: BL fanfiction writers in China's changing landscape of fandom culture","authors":"Xiaomeng Li","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13367","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2020, Archive of Our Own, a renowned fanfiction website, became inaccessible in China due to mass reporting by a celebrity's fans upset about him being portrayed as having a gender identity disorder in a fanfiction. This event led to increased regulation of Boys' Love (BL) content on many Chinese fanfiction platforms, posing challenges for writers. This study interviews Chinese BL fanfiction writers post-incident and explores their strategies for navigating the shrinking creative space. It argues that China's current fandom culture is capital-driven, data-centric, and commercial, fostering a “fanquan (fan circle)” culture that redefines the meaning of “being a fan.”</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 4","pages":"137-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144870057","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":"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":"Race, representation, and satire By Christopher P. Campbell (Ed.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 262. $110.00 (hbk)","authors":"James R. Cooke","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 1-2","pages":"26-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822098","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}