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Midwest Popular Culture Association

Vol 6, No 2 & 3

Popular Culture Studies Journal
Volume 6, Issue 2 & 3
Editor: Norma Jones

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EDITORIAL: Six Years!

Normal Jones

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Cylons, Dolls, and Hosts: The Cyborg Plot Twist in Science Fiction Television

Emily Midkiff

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"I'm Too Drunk to Taste This Chicken": The Hidden Poetry of Will Ferrell's Comedies

Laura Garrison

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"Look at the Flowers": Utilitarian Themes in the Post-Apocalypse

Kristine Levan

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"I'm Into This Woodworking Stuff": Hipster Masculinity and Adam Sackler on HBO's Girls

Michael Mario Albrecht

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SPECIAL ISSUE: Monstrosity

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Introduction to the Special Issue

Bernadette Marie Calafell

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Transing Dystopia: Constituting Trans Monstrosity, Performing Trans Rage in Torrey Peters' Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

Benny Lemaster

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Removing Racism from White Bodies: Peter Cvjetanovic's White Masculine Monstrosity

Dawn Marie D. McIntosh

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Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse and Other Neocolonial Monsters During the Endless Global War on Terrorism

Marouf Hasian, Jr. and Sean T. Lawson

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"If It's in a Word": Intersectional Feminism, Precarity, and The Babadook

Claire Sisco King

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Awakening the Civic Dead: Political Mobilization of the Zombie in Real Time

Nancy Wadsworth

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A Very Well-Tailored Person Suit: Hannibal Lector, America Gothic, and Cannibal Neoliberal Capitalism

Alena Kiel

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ChicanX "Monsters" and ChicanX/LatinX "Futures" in Film (Or, Searching for LatinXs in Sci-Fi Movies)

Michael Lechuga, Roberto Avant-Mier, and Katherine Alanis Ramírez

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Resurrecting the Witch: The Reanimation of the Witch Archetype and Toxic Whie Femininity in American Horror Story: Coven

Marylou R. Naumoff

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Crafting a Monstrously Queer Space: A Medicalized Gothic Reading of Nathaniel Highmore's Case of a Foetus Found in the Abdomen of a Young Man

Shane Miller

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Voting Horrors: Youthful, Monstrous, and Worrying Agency in American Film

Derek Lewis

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Zaha Hadid: Locating the Monster within Architecture

Cathryn Ladd

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Monstrosity in Everyday Life: Nepantleras, Theories in the Flesh, and Transformational Politics

Robert Gutierrez-Perez

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Erecting and Impaling the Monstrous Social Justice Warrior in The Green Inferno

Matthew Foy

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Something's Not Right: Monstrous Motherhood and Traumatic Survival in Among the Sleep

Bianca Batti

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The Literary Zombie in Robin Becker's Braines: "How Pop Culture Illuminates and Comments on the Current Zombie Crisis"

T. May Stone

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Hair-raising and Knee-Taking: Colin Kaepernick's Monstrous Personal and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

Scarlett R. Hester

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SPECIAL ISSUE INTERVIEWS

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REVIEWS

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CONTRIBUTORS

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