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From the Editor’s Desk
e have wonderful news. In a few weeks, all twenty-seven years of
Popular Culture Review will be available through Westphalia Press
with whom we have just joined forces for printing and distribution.
This will both increase our circulation and provide a permanent archive. Each
volume will retain its format and be separately bound. After the volumes
appear in print, they will also be submitted for publication in Amazon’s Kindle
e-book program.
In this issue Erika Engstrom and Colby Miyose discuss a new masculinity
in Korean Soap Opera, while Lorna Gibb tackles writing about ghosts and
American Idol exerts
on musical artistry, while Todd Giles discusses the more salubrious use of
Benjamin Britten’s Theme and Variation in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom.
Class and artistic identity lie at the heart of Philip Castille’s analysis of Jack
London’s Martin Eden in “The Call of the Colonial.” Lastly Patricia and William
Kirtley argue that comics and popular culture do belong in the classroom.
Four book reviews provide hints for future readings.
Remember that we are the journal of the Far West Popular and American
Culture Associations without whom PCR would not exist. Our 28th annual
meeting is scheduled from February 26 -28, 2016 at the Palace Station Hotel
in Las Vegas. Our meetings are attended by people from around the world
and are known for their friendliness and the quality of intellectual exchange. I
am accepting abstracts now at [email protected].
Felicia Campbell
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