Midwest Popular Culture Association
Introduction: Students and the Future of Popular Culture Studies
CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
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The White Knight of Jones County: American Monomyth and White Savior Narratives in Free State of Jones
Taylor Katz
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“Give Me the Seth Rogan Laugh”: This Is the End and Parafictional Persona
Bradley J. Dixon
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The Picture of Marilyn Monroe: How Oscar Wilde Predicts the Frightening Afterlife of the Dead Celebrity Persona
Brady Simenson
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The “Worlding” of the Muslim Superheroine: An Analysis of Ms. Marvel‘s Kamala Khan
Safiyya Hosein
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“Grave and Growing Threats”: The Association of Small Bombs and the Persistence of Post-9/11 Narratives
Lizzie Martin
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Nia Nal the Super Girl: Transgender Representation and Body Image
Sarah F. Price
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Shabash, the First-ever Bangladeshi Superhero: Transnational, Transcultural and Transcreated
Anis Rahman
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“The Mission Comes First”: Representations and Expectations of Labor in Travelers
Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman
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Embracing the Bad Victim: Sexual Violence and Sympathy on Popular Television
Shadia Siliman
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Look at What You’ve Done: Exploring Narrative Displeasure in Video Games
Steven Proudfoot
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“An Unadulterated Cultural Expressway for the Arts”: Exploring the Theoretical Possibilities of byNWR.com
Christopher J. Olson
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REGULAR SUBMISSIONS
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“They See a Caricature”: Expanding Media Representations of Black Identity in Dear White People
Graeme John Wilson
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Fleischer Studio’s Superman and a Darker Side of the “Good War”
Allan W. Austin
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The Myth of the Perfect Place: Creating a Voyeuristic Utopia in House Hunters International
Emily Sauter and Kevin Sauter
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Fighters and Fathers: Managing Masculinity in Contemporary Boxing Cinema
Joshua Sopiarz
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Conspiracy, Poverty, and Lost Children in Tracy Lett’s Bug and The X-Files
Thomas Fahy
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Scholarly Parody: Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Bill Clough
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Between Mimicry and Difference: Performing Elvis(es)
Beth Emily Richards
Michael T. Marsden Award Winner
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REVIEWS
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The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction
Christopher J. Olson
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