{"title":"Sitcom as refuge, sitcom as prison: Nostalgia, anti-nostalgia, and the embedded multi-camera sitcom in WandaVision and Kevin Can F**k Himself","authors":"Reto Winckler","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13337","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article claims that the recent trend in television and web streaming drama series to feature segments shot in the style of a multi-camera sitcom, a phenomenon which is termed “embedded sitcom,” reflects the current popularity of nostalgia in popular culture. Situating the sitcom in the context of television history and theories of nostalgia, the article argues that embedded sitcom reveals the nostalgic quality of the sitcom genre as well as of the medium of television, and negotiates a larger cultural conflict between the lucrative potency of nostalgia for past media formats and a wariness of nostalgia as politically regressive.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"221-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968185","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":"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}