Twenty Years of Popular Culture Review
Book Reviews:
A m e ric a n P a ra d o x : Y o u n g B la c k M e n
by Renford Reese
T he Q u ie te d V oice: T he R ise a n d D e m ise o f
L o c a lism in A m e ric a n R a d io
by Robert L. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith
Volume 17, Number 2 0 Summer 2006
Pomumentaries and Sexploitation: The Cultural
Signs of Sex
Recreating Macau in the Image of Las Vegas: Will
Cultural Globalization Come Home to Roost?
Gendered Ambivalence: Representations of
Kathoey in Thailand
“It’s My Body and I’ll Show It If I Want To”: The
Politics of Language in the Autobiographies of
Dorothy Dandridge, Diahann Carroll, and Whoopi
Goldberg
The New Journalism of the Sixties: Reevaluating
Objective Reality and Conventional Journalistic
Practice
When Fiction Becomes Reality: Authorial Voice in
The D o o r in th e F lo o r, S e c r e t W in d o w , and
Reviewed by Sharon
Moore
Reviewed by Erika
Engstrom
Daniel F. Ferreras
Robert W. Duff and
Lawrence K. Hong
Arthur Saniotis
Kwakiutl L. Dreher
Dennis Russell
Jan Whitt
S w im m in g P o o l
Man(kind) Vs. Mountain
Carriers of Popular Indian Culture: The Bauls of
Bengal
Narrative Transformations: Jonathan Lethem’s M en
a n d C a rto o n s Comic Books and Geek Culture
Book Reviews:
The T e n n e sse e W illia m s E n c y c lo p e d ia edited
by Philip C. Kolin
The V a m p ire a s N u m in o u s E x p e rie n c e :
S p iritu a l J o u r n e y s w ith th e U n d e a d in B ritish
a n d A m e ric a n L ite ra tu re
Armand E. Singer
Satish Sharma
William Petty
Reviewed by Felicia
Campbell
Reviewed by Reika
Lee
by Beth E. McDonald
J a c k in g in to th e Matrix F ra n c h ise : C u ltu ra l
R e c e p tio n a n d In te rp re ta tio n
Edited by Matthew Kapell and William G.
Doty
Volume 18, Number 1 v Winter 2007
Chef Appeal
Reviewed by Mindy
Hutchings
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