Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 5
Popular Culture Review
Volume xi, no. 1
Introduction .................................................................................................................. i
John O'Shea and the Tradition o f New Zealand Cinema .......................................1
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Orientation via Orientalism: Chinatown in Detective Narratives ..................... 13
Karen Lynch
Transsexing Technological Man: (Re) Writing the Comic Book
Male/Scientist in Swamp Thing ................................................................................31
Jack Bushnell
Chyna, Team Corporate, and the New World Order: The Politics o f White
Hypermasculinity and Anti-Corporatism in Professional Wrestling................... 43
Lawrence Saez
Forgive Us Our Sins: The Autobiography o f Expiation ........................................ 51
Dennis Russell
A Countercultural Gatsby: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas, the Death o f the American Dream and the Rise o f
Las Vegas, USA............................................................................................................61
Robert C. Sickels
The Sound o f “Synthetic Fury”: Dance Music, Machines and Masculinity ..... 75
Nicola Dibben
Liminality in Women s “History-Mystery”: The Case o f Anne Perry ................ 85
Jennifer S. Tuttle
Understanding the Outsider: Grendel, Geisel, and the Grinch ..........................99
Robert L. Schichler
West Side Story. Kennedy's Camelot & Postwar to Early 1960 s America ..... 107
Sheri Chinen Biesen