{"title":"Quasi-color consciousness: Casting, race, and sexual violence in Netflix's Bridgerton","authors":"Emma Lynn","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13375","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The hit Netflix series <i>Bridgerton</i> (2020–) updates the period drama for the twenty-first century with its racially diverse cast. Despite the series' potential for subverting racial hierarchies, this article argues that <i>Bridgerton</i> does not fully account for racist social structures, replicates racial stereotypes, and, most crucially, delegitimizes Black men as victims of sexual violence. These representational quandaries stem from <i>Bridgerton</i>'s use of the casting and narrative practice “quasi-color consciousness.” Quasi-color consciousness provides more nuanced language beyond colorblind casting to account for television producers' efforts (and shortcomings) to create racially diverse contemporary television programming.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"308-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13375","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868964","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":"The flesh of animation: Bodily sensations in film and digital media By Sandra Annett. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 288. $29.00 (pbk)","authors":"Mansi Tiwari","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"373-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868592","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 gothic and twenty-first-century American popular culture By Anna Marta Marini, Michael Fuchs (Eds.), Boston, MA: Brill. 2024. p. 248. £105.84 (hbk)","authors":"Lin Wu, Ziwei Yan","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13379","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"375-377"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868666","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":"Playing the percentages: How film distribution made the Hollywood studio system By Derek Long. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. pp. 296. $55.00 (hbk)","authors":"Wayne E. Arnold","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"369-370"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142867955","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":"Creating the viewer: Market research and the evolving media ecosystem By Justin Wyatt. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 2024. pp. 288. $105.00 (hbk)","authors":"Arya Priyadarshini","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"367-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868095","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":"Will “you be found?”—Intratextual social media and going viral in the contemporary teen musical","authors":"Emry Sottile","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13371","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As musical theater has gained traction with younger audiences, producers have put out numerous new shows that focus on the modern high school experience in an attempt to capture this target audience. Social media has moved beyond being an off-stage marketing tactic and has since warped into an on-stage plot device to feel authentic to audiences. Through analyzing <i>Dear Evan Hansen</i>, <i>The Prom</i>, and <i>Teenage Dick</i>, social media in contemporary theater is a proven means to stay relevant to young audiences that can highlight the unificatory and divisive nature of digital spaces with respect to twenty-first century adolescence and identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"296-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869243","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":"Zerox machine: Punk, post-punk and fanzines in Britain, 1976–88 By Matthew Worley. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. pp. 360. $35.00 (pbk)","authors":"Anna McCully Stewart","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"361-362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869165","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":"Storytelling in Kabuki: An exploration of spatial poetics of comics By Steen Ledet Christiansen, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2024. pp. 204. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Misha Grifka Wander","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13370","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"365-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869168","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":"You are what you watch: How movies and TV affect everything By Walter Hickey, New York: Workman Publishing Company. 2023. pp. 240. $22.39 (hbk)","authors":"Zhimiao Yang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13369","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"363-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141810014","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":"Screening social justice: Brave new films and documentary activism By Sherry B. Ortner. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 160. $23.95 (pbk)","authors":"Kathryn Burrell","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13366","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13366","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"359-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141811049","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}