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Book SynopsisSuitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader, this book showcases the work of a generation of scholars - from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies.
Trade Review“Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc have collected a diverse array of intriguing insights into popular culture—not with disdain or postmodern mumble, but with real interest and even respect.
Hop on Pop looks at pop culture as the water we swim in, as a muscular change agent, as the mirror held up to human nature.”—Brenda Laurel, author of
Utopian Entrepreneur"A lively travelogue of the ‘lively arts,’
Hop on Pop cheerfully transcends political, personal, and professional boundaries to offer a sprawling rainbow map of popular culture and exposes those old boundaries for the sneetch-like spooks they truly are."—Scott McCloud, cartoonist and author of
Understanding ComicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
I. Introduction 1
The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies / Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc 3
Defining Popular Culture / Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc 26
II. Self 43
Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home / Elayne Rapping 47
Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past / John Bloom 66
Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media / Heather Hendershot 88
"Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?"
Star Trek's Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics / Peter A. Chvany 105
The Empress's New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture / Jane Shattuc 122
"My Beautiful Wickedness":
The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy / Alexander Doty 138
III. Maker 159
"Ceci N'est Pas une Jeune Fille": Videocams, Representation, and "Othering" in the Worlds of Teenage Girls / Gerry Bloustien 162
"No Matter How Small": The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss / Henry Jenkins 187
An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS,
Babylon 5, and the Net / Alan Wexelblat 209
"I'm a Loser Baby": Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity / Stephen Duncombe 227
IV. Performance 251
"Anyone Can Do It": Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars / Robert Drew 254
Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance / Sharon Mazer 270
Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity," and the Discourse of Camp / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 287
"They Dig Her Message": Opera, Television, and the Black Diva / Dianne Brooks 300
How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism --- and Tallulah Bankhead's Phallus / Edward O'Neill 316
V. Taste 339
"It Will Get a Terrific Laugh": On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor / Louis Kaplan 343
The Sound of Disaffection / Tony Grajeda 357
Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio 376
"Racial Cross-Dressing" in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife / Nicholas M. Evans 388
The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia's New York / Anna McCarthy 415
Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston's Combat Zone / Eric Schaefer and Eithne Johnson 430
VI. Change 455
On Thrifting / Matthew Tinkcom, Joy Van Fuqua, and Amy Villarejo 459
Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century / Elana Crane 472
Navigating
Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism / Greg M. Smith 487
The Rules of the Game:
Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy
Doom / Angela Ndalianis 503
Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from
Gone with the Wind to
Scarlett / Tara McPherson 517
VII. Home 535
"The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know": Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey / Nabeel Zuberi 539
Finding One's Way Home:
I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity / Maria Koundoura 556
As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other / Aniko Bodroghkozy 566
Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France / Catherine Palmer 589
Narrativizing Cyper-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery / Ellen Strain 605
Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies / John Hartley 622
VIII. Emotion 647
"Ain't I de One Everybody Come to See?!" Popular Memories of
Uncle Tom's Cabin / Robyn R. Warhol 650
Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women's Power / Kathleen Green 670
"Have You Seen This Child?" From Milk Carton to
Mise-en-Abime / Eric Freedman 689
Introducing Horror / Charles E. Weigl 700
About the Contributors 721
Name Index 733
