Popular Culture Review Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2005 | Page 5

Popular Culture Review
Volume 16, no. 1
Introduction.................................................................................. ..
Behind the Irony Curtain: Lenin Loses His Head in Las Vegas
Dina Titus ...................................................................................... 5
"Sweet Desolation" and Seduction in Toni Morrison's Jazz
Geta LeSeur ................................................................................. 21
Spectres of Fear: Jihadism as the Global Bogeyman
Arthur Saniotis ............................................................................. 31
Out of Focus on the Family: A Response to Arguments about Same Sex
Marriage
Mel Seesholtz ............................................................................... 45
Goth and Industrial Cultures: Differential Interpretations
D. A. Lopez and Karith A. Meyers ...................................................77
Georg Trakl and the Goth Band L'ame Immortelle
Gabriele Eckart and Kevin Stueve .................................................. 97
"Self-Matters": Latter-Day Notes on the Culture of Narcissism
Steven Carter. ........................................................................... 109
The Comic Strip Pogo and Liberal Satire During the Vietnam Era
Eric Jarvis ................................................................................. 117
Yep, Gaston's Gay: Disney and the Beauty of a Beastly Love
H. Peter Steeves ........................................................................ 125
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the "Ecosystem of Sex"
Matthew Kapell and Suzanne Becker ........................................... 147
Contributors................................................................................157