Popular Culture Review
Volume 26, no. 1
Winter 2015
From the Editor’s D e sk.................................................................................................................3
“another old Buddhist monastery thing": The Misguided Zen of Fight Club............................. 5
Todd Giles
Carrying the Whole Black Race: Woody Strode, John Ford, and the Trials of Blackness ...18
Frank E. Dobson
Seeking Grace: The Tempest, Race Relations, and American Popular C ulture................... 32
Michelle Villanueva
Richard Matheson and the Twilight Fantastic........................................................................... 45
Daniel Ferreras Savoye
Postmodern Pastiche: Following the Path of Productive Parody on Sesame S tree t.............66
Marci Mazzarotto
The Last of the Crass: Understanding the Shifting Values of Punk Subculture.................... 77
Chase D. Cartwright
Digitizing and Downloading Culture: Museums in the Age of Multimedia.............................. 90
Heather Lusty
The American Ebola “Crisis” Did Not Take Place: A Baudrillardian Interpretation of a
Manufactured Pseudo-Event.................................................................................................... 102
Keith Moser
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