Midwest Popular Culture Association
Vol 10, No 1
Popular Culture Studies Journal
Volume 10, Issue 1
Special Issue Editor: Tara J. Schuwerk and Jessica M. Prody
Editor: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
Editorial Introduction: Comfort and Popular CultureCarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Reconnecting: Food, Popular Culture, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Food, Popular Culture, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Special Issue Introduction
Tara J. Schuwerk and Jessica M. Prody
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Coping Through COVID Cooking: Nostalgia and Resilience in Online Communities
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
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Pandemic Pets de Soeurs: Connecting French-Canadian Food, Culture, and Nostalgia Online
Kelly Boudreau and Marc Ouellette
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Christopher Tadros
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Michael A. Johnson
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Grocery Shopping During COVID-19: A Privileged Perspective
Ayush Shah
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COVID Comfort: Food, Advertising, Family, and Unity During a Pandemic
Debbie Danowski
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Supermarket Culinary Magazine: A Telescope to Observe Portuguese Contemporary Food Culture
Cynthia Luderer and Eveline Baptistella
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It Just Was Not the Same
Allycia Tran
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Altered Foodways and (Non)Utilization of Technology: COVID-19 and Baby BoomersTara J. Schuwerk
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Digital Commensality: Mediating Human Interaction During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mina Kishino
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Laura Johnson
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“Just Give Me a Meme!”: Popular Culture Insights from Crisis Food Communication
D. Travers Scott
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“You Are a Bright Light in These Crazy Times”: The Rhetorical Strategies of #BakeClub that Counter Pandemic Isolation and Systemic Racism
Ashley M. Beardsley
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(W)reckoning Dual Pandemics Through Food and Hip-hop Topoi: An Analysis of Ghetto Gastro‘s Afrocentric PCI Rhetoric
Mitch Combs and Kristen D. Herring
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REGULAR SUBMISSIONS
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Appa, Everybody’s Favorite [Korean] TV Dad?Midori Takagi
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The Rhetorical Interlude as Foreshadow and Strategy: The ‘Burbs and Villains of the Cold War
Brent Yergensen and Scott Haden Church
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Revaluating RPGs: A Response to Robert Sullivan’s “Role-Playing Games as Art”
Walton Wood
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Perceived Permeability of Group Boundaries as a Mediator Between Belonging to Multiple Fandoms and Loneliness
Stephen Reysen, Courtney N. Plante, and Daniel Chadborn
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Fear Not, True Believers: Exploring Network Structures Among Characters in the Marvel Comic Universe
Caleb T. Carr
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
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Derry Girls: A Postfeminist Catharsis
Zoë Backwell
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REVIEWS
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The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction
Christopher J. Olson
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