{"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}
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.
{"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}
Hulu's Prey (2022), the fifth installment of the Predator franchise, is set in 1719 and features a Comanche female protagonist. The setting is unlike the 1987 Predator and its sequels, with their hardbody machismo and conservative politics. We argue that Prey 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. Prey provides clues on the future of franchises in terms of how minority histories and subjectivities are represented.
Hulu 出品的《猎物》(2022 年)是《掠食》系列电影的第五部,故事背景设定在 1719 年,女主角是科曼奇人。这一背景与 1987 年的《掠食》及其续集的硬汉大男子主义和保守政治不同。我们认为,《猎物》是好莱坞迈出的一小步,但意义重大,但其包容性是有代价的。尽管该片被称赞为进步之作,但它却延续了一种世界观,即美国原住民是 "高贵的野蛮人",殖民掠夺的过程被定格为准自然现象。猎物》在如何表现少数民族历史和主体性方面为特许经营的未来提供了线索。
{"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}