{"title":"Superhero Rhetoric: From Exceptionalism to Globalization—Up, Up, and … Abroad. By Michael Arthur Soares, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 218 pp. $105.00 (hbk)","authors":"Md Abu Hena Pohil","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"253-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335786","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":"Poetics of the Paranormal. By Kevin Chabot, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $32.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-22-802298-5","authors":"Edmund P. Cueva","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"255-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335785","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 to Queer the World: Radical Worldbuilding Through Video Games. By Bo Ruberg, New York: New York University Press, 2025. 304 pp. $30.00 (Pbk). ISBN: 978-1-47-983200-2","authors":"Yiming Wang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"259-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335787","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":"Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy, and the Kubrickian ConsciousnessBy D. Harlan Wilson, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Stalking Horse Press, 2025. 222 pp. $19.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-960451-09-5","authors":"Özgür Çalışkan","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"243-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335624","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}
Homeland is a chronicle of a nation traumatized by the war on terror at a time when it has grown weary of fighting it. Airing shortly after the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, Homeland explores the war on terror's ambiguous legacies. It is an influential contribution to and reflection of the covert sphere, where the public interacts with the security state in a mediated environment. Homeland balances elements of the political thriller with deep explorations of its characters' personal lives. Homeland encourages audiences to empathize with its damaged protagonists because their sacrifices are seemingly justified as the cost of maintaining national security.
{"title":"“All I See Is Damage” Homeland, the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror","authors":"Brian E. Crim","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>Homeland</i> is a chronicle of a nation traumatized by the war on terror at a time when it has grown weary of fighting it. Airing shortly after the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, <i>Homeland</i> explores the war on terror's ambiguous legacies. It is an influential contribution to and reflection of the covert sphere, where the public interacts with the security state in a mediated environment. <i>Homeland</i> balances elements of the political thriller with deep explorations of its characters' personal lives. <i>Homeland</i> encourages audiences to empathize with its damaged protagonists because their sacrifices are seemingly justified as the cost of maintaining national security.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"231-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335768","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}
This article explores recent, acclaimed horror movies set in the deindustrialized ruins of Detroit—It Follows (2014), Don't Breathe (2016), and Barbarian (2022)—situating them within the larger debate about “ruin porn.” The films subvert common criticisms of ruin imagery, including its lack of social and cultural context and its exploitation of capitalist nostalgia. Further, these recent Detroit films actualize the pornographic elements of ruin porn, confronting viewers with the horrors—class stratification, white heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism—that caused the ruins to begin with, while also calling into question the “porn” metaphor itself.
{"title":"Deindustrial Nightmares: Detroit Horror Films and Ruin Porn","authors":"Mitch Ploskonka","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores recent, acclaimed horror movies set in the deindustrialized ruins of Detroit—It Follows (2014), Don't Breathe (2016), and Barbarian (2022)—situating them within the larger debate about “ruin porn.” The films subvert common criticisms of ruin imagery, including its lack of social and cultural context and its exploitation of capitalist nostalgia. Further, these recent Detroit films actualize the pornographic elements of ruin porn, confronting viewers with the horrors—class stratification, white heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism—that caused the ruins to begin with, while also calling into question the “porn” metaphor itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 6","pages":"282-289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145792235","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}
This article describes radical rightwing dystopian fictions set in near-future versions of the USA, in which the nature of liberal society, combined with some disastrous catalyst, triggers armed resistance by authoritarian, libertarian, and/or secessionist forces, leading to a Second Civil War. It details the methodology for the selection of our survey sample, then develops a descriptive typology of their narrative trajectories. It summarizes the historical role of authoritarian fictions in inspiring rightwing violence and discusses why some contemporary authors might have knowledge of how to conduct an antigovernment insurgency. It then explores their potential role in fomenting militia-related political violence.
{"title":"The Civil War II Novel: From Speculation to Preparation","authors":"Geoff Boucher, Helen Young, Rachel Fetherston","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article describes radical rightwing dystopian fictions set in near-future versions of the USA, in which the nature of liberal society, combined with some disastrous catalyst, triggers armed resistance by authoritarian, libertarian, and/or secessionist forces, leading to a Second Civil War. It details the methodology for the selection of our survey sample, then develops a descriptive typology of their narrative trajectories. It summarizes the historical role of authoritarian fictions in inspiring rightwing violence and discusses why some contemporary authors might have knowledge of how to conduct an antigovernment insurgency. It then explores their potential role in fomenting militia-related political violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"214-222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335458","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}
In Star Wars: Andor, the choice for prisoners of Narkina 5 was clear: freedom or death. Two critical speeches from the Narkina 5 prison episodes demonstrate how to disrupt the power of the Empire and the human cost of rebellion. There are parallels between these speeches and the history of rebellion on Earth. This paper will use these speeches to explore the dynamics of ruling class power and countermovements through an approach grounded in postcolonial and critical race theories. This project explores the implications of rebellion speech for characters in science fiction and marginalized people in real life.
{"title":"I Would Rather Die: Postcolonial Analysis of Rebellion Speeches in Star Wars: Andor","authors":"Kristina Vera-Phillips","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Star Wars: Andor, the choice for prisoners of Narkina 5 was clear: freedom or death. Two critical speeches from the Narkina 5 prison episodes demonstrate how to disrupt the power of the Empire and the human cost of rebellion. There are parallels between these speeches and the history of rebellion on Earth. This paper will use these speeches to explore the dynamics of ruling class power and countermovements through an approach grounded in postcolonial and critical race theories. This project explores the implications of rebellion speech for characters in science fiction and marginalized people in real life.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 6","pages":"267-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145792342","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}
Recent retellings of the myth of Medusa portray her as a feminist icon and a sexual assault survivor. This paper uses a feminist rhetorical lens to juxtapose three texts: one by a man, Luciano Garbati's (2008) sculpture, Medusa with the Head of Perseus, and two short stories by women, Pat Barker's (2019) Medusa and Nina MacLaughlin's (2019) Medusa. Garbati's sculpture first appears subversive, reimagining Medusa as the victor over Perseus; however, his sculpture presents her story through the male gaze and fails to shift the narrative's perspective. Barker and MacLaughlin, in contrast, upend the traditional narrative and reclaim Medusa's silenced voice through a shift in narrative perspective. These authors' interpretations impact how readers receive the messages of their stories. For this reason, there is a great need for artists to reinterpret stories to offer criticisms of similar myths. Only through these criticisms is it possible to make space for other cultures, perspectives, and voices in challenging sexual assault, sexism, and misogyny.
{"title":"(Re)Telling the Myth of Medusa: A Rhetorical Analysis From the Perspective of the MeToo Movement and Beyond","authors":"Alexandra C. Sladky","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Recent retellings of the myth of Medusa portray her as a feminist icon and a sexual assault survivor. This paper uses a feminist rhetorical lens to juxtapose three texts: one by a man, Luciano Garbati's (2008) sculpture, <i>Medusa with the Head of Perseus,</i> and two short stories by women, Pat Barker's (2019) <i>Medusa</i> and Nina MacLaughlin's (2019) <i>Medusa</i>. Garbati's sculpture first appears subversive, reimagining Medusa as the victor over Perseus; however, his sculpture presents her story through the male gaze and fails to shift the narrative's perspective. Barker and MacLaughlin, in contrast, upend the traditional narrative and reclaim Medusa's silenced voice through a shift in narrative perspective. These authors' interpretations impact how readers receive the messages of their stories. For this reason, there is a great need for artists to reinterpret stories to offer criticisms of similar myths. Only through these criticisms is it possible to make space for other cultures, perspectives, and voices in challenging sexual assault, sexism, and misogyny.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"207-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335611","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":"Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era. By Adam Kotsko, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 273 pp. $22.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-51-791910-8","authors":"Aaron Adair","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.70001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"58 5","pages":"251-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145335453","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}
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