Popular Culture Review
Volume 22, no. 1
Winter 2011
From the Editor's D e s k ................................................................................ 3
Defending a City's Image: Las Vegas Opposes the Making of 711
Ocean Drive, 1950........................................................................................ 7
Larry Gragg
Doll Wars: Barbie and Her Competitors in the Twenty-First Century . 17
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Comic Books and The New Literature...................................................... 25
Daniel Ferreras Savoye
Rape and Regret: Construction and Reconstruction of the Molested Girl
in Popular Culture....................................................................................... 37
Kim Idol
Thank You, Mr. Poe: Poe's Literary Presence in Preston and Child's
Detective Pendergast S eries..................................................................... 49
Margaret Wagner
Sports Talk Radio: Finding Community in "The Jungle" of Jim
Rom e............................................................................................................ 63
MeHee Hyun
Time and Self: How Time Travel Reveals What It Means to
Be
Human..........................................................................................................79
Kym Morris
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans: A Call for Ending its Comatosis
or Hibernation............................................................................................. 91
William N. Thompson and Maria Ernita Joaquin
Eating a Meal with the Other:The EthicalChallenges of Travel Food
Shows...........................................................................................................99
Lori Kido Lopez
BOOK REVIEWS....................................................................................... 109
Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks and Whites, Love and
Death by Frank E. Dobson, Jr.
Reviewed by Felicia Campbell......................................................... I l l
TV Noir: The Twentieth Century by Ray Starman
Reviewed by Felicia Campbell......................................................... 112