Popular Culture Review Vol. 12, No. 2, August 2001 | Page 7

Introduction
This issue of Popular Culture Review (PCR) brings readers its usual fare of
eclectic articles from a wide range of disciplines and venues. The articles guide us
through aspects of the cultural histories of Japan, Las Vegas, and the omnipresent
world of cyberspace with stops in places such as 1980’s American television, U.S.
and Japanese adventure films, and pop fiction. Along the way we learn of the
factual and popular story of an American sailing ship, the uses and abuses of
websites dedicated to breast cancer, some implications of bumper stickers and the
1980’s and ‘90’s New York art scene. Our adventure would not be complete, of
course, without a discussion of the saturation of “postmodernism” in current popular
culture.
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