Popular Culture Review
Volume 25, no. 2
Summer 2014
From the Editor’s D e sk .........................................................................................3
State of the Redneck in the Early 21 Century: The Case of
Jeff Foxworthy...................................................
4
R /f Jahna
From Work to Text: Reading The Raven Waits as Beojvn/f
Fan Fiction ......................................................................................................... 22
M aura Grady
Confessions of a Thirty-Something English Professor and Gamer:
TEDx and the Importance of Video G am es......................
44
A m y Green
The Manichean Dimension of Vince GiUigan’s Breaking B a d ...........................55
Richard Logsdon
Herodotus and Bob Woodward: A Comparison................................................68
Helm ut G LoeJffJer
“Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip/ and come up to the Mothership”:
P. Funk’s “Mothership Connection (Starchild)” and the Tropes of Science
Fiction....................................................................................................................74
D avid Sandner
Scare the Hell Out of Them: Christian Horror in Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker’s
House ....................................................................................................................84
Rebecca Branstetter
Pink is the New Black: 50s Color Noir, the “Fatal Man,” and the “Femme”
Detective in A Kiss Before D y in g ...........................................................................95
Rjobert Miklitsch
BOOK REVIEWS
Soul o f the D ark Knight: Batman as Mythic Figure in
Comics and Film, by Alex M. Wainer.
Reviewed by John M ay....................................................................... 108
CONTRIBUTORS..........................................................................................110