{"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}
{"title":"A cultural history of the Punisher. Marvel comics and the politics of vengeance By Kent Worcester. Bristol: Intellect, 2023. pp. 274. £ 29.95 (pbk)","authors":"Ana Rita Martins","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13365","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"357-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141656588","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":"A history of cyber literary criticism in China By Youquan Ouyang, New York: Routledge. 2024. pp. 310. $180.00 (hbk)","authors":"Man Zhou","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13364","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"354-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141662810","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}
Using four animated texts about anthropomorphic animals—Zootopia (2016), Sing (2016), Sing 2 (2021), and Zootopia+ (2022)—this article explores two related questions: How can animated films featuring cities for anthropomorphic animals rethink accessibility? How is accessibility sustained and/or adapted through continuations as seen in franchises and transmedia storytelling? I argue that the two series I analyze offer two different approaches to accessibility and the maintenance of it, one which works better than the other. This comparison suggests that accessibility needs to be an integral part of world design from the very beginning in order to stay stable over time.
{"title":"“All creatures great and small, welcome”: Animating accessible world design","authors":"Rebecca Rowe","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13362","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13362","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using four animated texts about anthropomorphic animals—<i>Zootopia</i> (2016), <i>Sing</i> (2016), <i>Sing 2</i> (2021), and <i>Zootopia+</i> (2022)—this article explores two related questions: How can animated films featuring cities for anthropomorphic animals rethink accessibility? How is accessibility sustained and/or adapted through continuations as seen in franchises and transmedia storytelling? I argue that the two series I analyze offer two different approaches to accessibility and the maintenance of it, one which works better than the other. This comparison suggests that accessibility needs to be an integral part of world design from the very beginning in order to stay stable over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"285-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141671730","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":"Anime's knowledge cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai By Jinying Li. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 344. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Min Joo Lee","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13363","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"352-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681337","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 new Nancy: Flexible and relatable daily comics in the twenty-first century By Jeff Karnicky, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2023. pp. 208. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Tanya Goyal","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13361","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"350-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141682764","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}
The remarkable cultural vitality of Star Wars and the subsequent franchise is due in part to the way in which it simultaneously builds on and bolsters the Gramscian “common sense” that America is not an empire. Like the Western, Star Wars uses apolitical individualism to portray political actions as the result of individuals' search for freedom, while representing the galaxy as home to a single, evil Empire. These narrative mechanisms, invite the viewers of Star Wars to think of the United States as a ragtag group of fighters battling an oppressive empire, but not itself an empire.
{"title":"Star wars: The hidden empire","authors":"Azzan Yadin-Israel","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13359","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The remarkable cultural vitality of <i>Star Wars</i> and the subsequent franchise is due in part to the way in which it simultaneously builds on and bolsters the Gramscian “common sense” that America is not an empire. Like the Western, <i>Star Wars</i> uses apolitical individualism to portray political actions as the result of individuals' search for freedom, while representing the galaxy as home to a single, evil Empire. These narrative mechanisms, invite the viewers of <i>Star Wars</i> to think of the United States as a ragtag group of fighters battling an oppressive empire, but not itself an empire.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"247-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141688362","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}