{"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}
{"title":"The Freaks came out to write: The definitive history of the “Village Voice” the radical paper that changed American culture By Tricia Romano. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2024. pp. 608. $35 (hardcover)","authors":"Keaton Studebaker","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13353","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"338-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368460","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":"Intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations & cinematic representations of Blackness By Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, Robin G. Vander (Eds.), Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. pp. 288. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Carl C. Clark","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13350","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"336-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141387795","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":"Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By Christa Salamandra, Nour Halabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"276-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966726","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":"Bootlegging the airwaves: Alternative histories of radio and television distribution By Eleanor Patterson, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 192. $28.00 (paperback)","authors":"Christine F. Smith","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"274-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967744","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 drinking curriculum: A cultural history of childhood and alcohol By Elizabeth A. Marshall, New York: Fordham University Press. 2024. pp. 135. $25.00 (paperback)","authors":"Aisha Manus","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"272-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968135","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 othering of women in silent film: Cultural, historical, and literary contexts By Barbara Tepa Lupack, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. 344 pp. $120.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Heather Buchanan","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13348","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"270-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141125508","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":"Mapping the posthuman: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture By Grant Hamilton and Carolyn Lau (Eds.), Routledge: New York. 2024. p. 346. £155.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Yuwei Huang, Xiaohui Liang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13340","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"267-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141003637","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":"Mapping the stars: Celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity By Claire Sisco King, Athens, OH: Ohio State University Press. 2023. pp. 264. $32.95 (paperback)","authors":"Gabrielle Stecher","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13339","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"265-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141011318","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":"Women's American football: Breaking barriers on and off the gridiron By Russ Crawford, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2022. pp. 379. $34.95 (hardcover)","authors":"Nichole Bogarosh","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"263-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967664","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}