Popular Culture Review
Volume 18, no. 1
Winter 2007
Chef Appeal................................................................................ 3
Alison Pearlman
Bidding "Farewell to Bikini": National Geographic and United States'
Atomic Testing in the Pacific........................................................ 25
Scott C. Zeman
The Textual Confessional; Memoirs of Societai Taboos and Personal
Dysfunctions..............................................................................37
Dennis Russell
The Woman Athlete Revealed: The Problem of Get-Ups and Glitter for
Female Olympians..................................................................... 49
Carol-Ann Farkas
Broken Bodies, Disruptured Landscapes: Landmines as Bio-Power in
Afghanistan and Cambodia.......................................................... 61
Arthur Saniotis
"Screening" the Sexuality of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Artist in Two
Film s........................................................................................73
Christopher F. Johnston
China and the Fad for Japan in Onoto Watanna's Chinese-Japanese
Cook Book .........................................................................................................85
Ellen Dupree
"I'm a Crook": Representations of the
U.S.President in Popular
Literature................................................................................. 91
Jeffrey Johnson
Poker is "Going to the Dogs": The Artistry of CassiusMarcellus
Coolidge.................................................................................. 101
William Thompson
Book Reviews:
Once Upon a Time: A Personal Guide to Telling and Writing Your
Own Story by Ross Talarico
Reviewed by Melissa Llanes Brownlee................................... 113
Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters by Mary Jane Lupton
Reviewed by Caroline Maun................................................ 114
From Russia with L ove: A 50th Anniversary Valentine Title by Ian Fleming
Reviewed by Adam Henry Carriere....................................... 116
CONTRIBUTORS..................................................................... 119