{"title":"Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work By Aviva Briefel, Jason Middleton (Eds.), Austin, TX: Texas UP. 2023. 256 pp. $55.00 paper","authors":"Holly Eva Allen","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13304","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 1","pages":"38-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139525372","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}
A sequence of recent science-fiction films set in the San Francisco Bay Area suggests that Silicon Valley corporations have become a major concern for Hollywood. These films present Silicon Valley capitalism in thrall to a technological experimentation that prompts disastrous outcomes, which the films collectively argue emerges from the corporations' drive for profit and ignorance of the precautionary principle. Yet Hollywood's response to Silicon Valley involves the valorizing of a kinder, less rapacious capitalism than that of Silicon Valley, a position that prevents a thorough critique of a major challenger to its position within our culture.
{"title":"Prometheus by the Bay: Hollywood and tech capitalism in Silicon Valley","authors":"Joe Street, Russ Hunter","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13302","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13302","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A sequence of recent science-fiction films set in the San Francisco Bay Area suggests that Silicon Valley corporations have become a major concern for Hollywood. These films present Silicon Valley capitalism in thrall to a technological experimentation that prompts disastrous outcomes, which the films collectively argue emerges from the corporations' drive for profit and ignorance of the precautionary principle. Yet Hollywood's response to Silicon Valley involves the valorizing of a kinder, less rapacious capitalism than that of Silicon Valley, a position that prevents a thorough critique of a major challenger to its position within our culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 1","pages":"7-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139618929","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":"Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western. Mia Mask. U of Illinois P, 2023. 296 pp. $14.95 ebook.","authors":"Carl Clifton Clark","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13279","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"940-941"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139041942","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":"Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture. Sean Samuel, O'Neil. U of Tennessee P, 2022. pp. 232. $99.40 hardcover.","authors":"Andrew James Kettler","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"934-935"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139042311","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":"Asian Political Cartoons. John A. Lent, UP of Mississippi, 2023. 301 pp. $30.00 paper.","authors":"Sheng-mei Ma","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"936-937"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139042312","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":"Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City. Shanté Paradigm Smalls. New York UP, 2022. 216 pp. $28.00 paperback.","authors":"Antoni Górny","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"922-923"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139042181","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":"Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts , Michelle Ann Abate. UP of Mississippi, 2023. 222 pp. $25.00 paper.","authors":"Anastasia L. Pratt","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"946-947"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139042284","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":"Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars By Rachel E. Dubrofsky, University of Mississippi Press. 2022. 174 pp. $30.00 paper","authors":"Morgan Foster","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"930-931"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139041943","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":"Aquaman and the War against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene. Ryan Poll, U of Nebraska P, 2022. pp 268. $30.00 paper.","authors":"Nicole Rehnberg","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"952-953"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139041952","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":"Harry Potter and the Other: Race, Justice, and Difference in the Wizarding World. Sarah Park Dalen, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. UP of Mississippi, 2022. 330 pp. $25.00 paper.","authors":"Effie Sapuridis","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"56 5-6","pages":"938-939"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139041941","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}