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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

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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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The New Sliding Glass Door

Christopher Tadros

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How the Pandemic Redefined Comfort Food: American Individualism, Culinary Relativism, and Shifting MoralitiesLucy M. Long

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Pandemic Comfort Food

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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COVID-19 Anxiety

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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“Save Money and Save the Planet”: The Rhetorical Appeal and Use of (Anti-)Food Waste and Rescue Apps During COVID-19
Leda Cooks

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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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Book Reviews

Film Reviews

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