Popular Culture Review
Volume 26, No. 2
Summer 2015
From the Editor’s Desk.............................................................................................1
Boys Over Flowers: Korean Soap Opera and the Blossoming of a New
Masculinity...................................................................................................2
Colby Miyose and Erika Engstrom
Blurring the Lines Between Biography and Fiction: Writing About
Ghosts.....................................................................................................................14
Lorna Gibb
Singing the Same Song: The Unsettling Celebration of Homogenous Artistry
Encouraged by American Idol …………………..............……..................…….…….19
Josh Bates & Kristin M. Barton
The Call of the Colonial: Jack London’s Martin Eden………......................………..30
Philip Castille
“The Young Person’s Guide” to Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson’s Theme and
Variations on a Theme and Variations of Benjamin Britten's........................44
Todd Giles
Aw Yeah! Comics and Popular Culture in the Classroom……...........….....………..55
Patricia M. Kirtley and William M. Kirtley
Book Reviews
Hitchcock à la Carte by Jan Olsson………………….........................................……69
Reviewed by Romana Guillotte
Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense: A Popular Writer Transcends Genres by
Carlos Ramet…………………...............................................................…………….71
Reviewed by Kim Idol
Superheroes on World Screens by Rayna Denison and Rachel MizseiWard………………................................…...................….................………72
Reviewed by Jaq Greenspon
A Word-Slinger’s Delight: Morrissey’s Autobiography …………........................……75
Reviewed by Michael A Young