{"title":"Predator's Prey: Reframing indigenous representation and Hollywood franchise cinema in the age of SVOD","authors":"César Albarrán-Torres, Andrew Lynch","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13334","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hulu's <i>Prey</i> (2022), the fifth installment of the <i>Predator</i> franchise, is set in 1719 and features a Comanche female protagonist. The setting is unlike the 1987 <i>Predator</i> and its sequels, with their hardbody machismo and conservative politics. We argue that <i>Prey</i> is a small but significant step in Hollywood, but its inclusivity comes at a price. Though praised as progressive, it perpetuates a worldview in which Native Americans are ‘noble savages’ and processes of colonial dispossession are framed as quasi-natural occurrences. <i>Prey</i> provides clues on the future of franchises in terms of how minority histories and subjectivities are represented.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 3","pages":"175-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140656849","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":"Baseball: The turbulent midcentury years By Steven Philip Gietschier. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 568. $44.95 (cloth).","authors":"Andrew Kettler","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13335","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"259-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140671013","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":"Mean girl feminism: How white feminists gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss By Kim Hong Nguyen, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 160. $22.95 (paperback)","authors":"Craig A. Meyer","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13336","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"261-262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140670181","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 intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations and cinematic representations of blackness By Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander (Eds.), Jackson, MS: Mississippi University Press. 2023. pp. 278. $30.00 (paperback).","authors":"Xinyu Chen","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13333","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"257-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140678782","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":"54th Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association PCA-ACA","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13323","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 S1","pages":"1-327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140606385","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 experimental book object: Materiality, media, design By Sami Sjöberg, Mikko Keskinen, Arja Karhumaa (Eds.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 336. $170.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Yuanyuan Zhang, Haifeng Hui","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13332","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 3","pages":"213-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140698185","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":"Culture-bound syndromes in popular culture By Cringuta Irina Pelea (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 338. $170 (hardcover)","authors":"Yuanyuan Wang, Xiaohui Liang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13329","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13329","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 3","pages":"206-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140695335","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":"Polish theatre revisited: Theatre fans in the nineteenth century By Agata Łuksza, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2024. 367 pages. $100.00 (pbk)","authors":"Orel Beilinson","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13331","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 3","pages":"211-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140696019","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":"How documentaries went mainstream: A history, 1960–2022 By Nora Stone, New York: Oxford university press. 2023. pp. 234. $125.00 (cloth)","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13330","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13330","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 3","pages":"209-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140696629","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":"Afrocentricity in Afrofuturism: Toward Afrocentric futurism By Aaron X. Smith (Ed.), Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. pp. 242. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Jonathan S. Lower","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13328","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13328","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 3","pages":"204-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140714200","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}