Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 5

Popular Culture Review Volume xi, no. 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. i John O'Shea and the Tradition o f New Zealand Cinema .......................................1 Wheeler Winston Dixon Orientation via Orientalism: Chinatown in Detective Narratives ..................... 13 Karen Lynch Transsexing Technological Man: (Re) Writing the Comic Book Male/Scientist in Swamp Thing ................................................................................31 Jack Bushnell Chyna, Team Corporate, and the New World Order: The Politics o f White Hypermasculinity and Anti-Corporatism in Professional Wrestling................... 43 Lawrence Saez Forgive Us Our Sins: The Autobiography o f Expiation ........................................ 51 Dennis Russell A Countercultural Gatsby: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Death o f the American Dream and the Rise o f Las Vegas, USA............................................................................................................61 Robert C. Sickels The Sound o f “Synthetic Fury”: Dance Music, Machines and Masculinity ..... 75 Nicola Dibben Liminality in Women s “History-Mystery”: The Case o f Anne Perry ................ 85 Jennifer S. Tuttle Understanding the Outsider: Grendel, Geisel, and the Grinch ..........................99 Robert L. Schichler West Side Story. Kennedy's Camelot & Postwar to Early 1960 s America ..... 107 Sheri Chinen Biesen