Populär Culture Review
Volume 24, no. 2
Summer 2013
From the Editor's Desk.................................................................. 3
Slot Machines and Players Memories: A Return to E d en ................... 5
J.A. White
Correction of a Falsified Image: Creole Voodoo.............................. 13
Alexandra Reuber
Malinche: The Voice of a Nation................................................... 33
Patricia M. Kirtley and William M. Kirtley
The Coming of Age of Chinese Comics: Manhua, "Mr. Wang," and
Shanghai Sketch........................................................................ 53
Ying Bao
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Cinematic Representations of High
School English Teachers.............................................................. 67
Donald J. Newman
Katniss Everdeen, Role Model? Morality and Ethics in the Hunger
Games Trilogy........................................................................... 83
Brent Gibson
Mary Pickford: The Little Girl Who Called the Shots........................ 91
Kathy Meriock Jackson
Becoming the One Who Knocks: Innovations as a Response to Social
Strains in AMC's Breaking B a d ..................................................... 99
Patrick Osborne
Who is the Man with No Name? Names and Namlessness in Western
Fiction..................................................................................... 113
Joseph Serio
BOOK REVIEWS........................................................................127
Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Populär Games by
James Chapman and Nicholas J. Cull
Reviewed by Daniel Ferreras Savoye ................................128
The Drunken Botanist—Plants that Create the Worid's Great
Drinks by Amy Stewart
Reviewed by Susan Hoerner........................................ 131