Popular Culture Review Volume 27 , No . 2 Summer 2016
From the Editor ’ s Desk Gina M . Sully 6
Becoming My Subject ’ s Subject : Susan Sontag ’ s Carl Rollyson File Carl Rollyson 9
The Manhattan Project and Chaos Theory in Popular Culture Dorothy Vanderford 24
Batroversy : Counterpublics and Antecedent Rhetorics in the Casting of Batman Michael Soares 43
The Search for Meaning in the Films of Wes Anderson Brent Gibson 70
This Tractor for Hire : Consensual Cooperation for Pacifist and African-American Farmers , Women , and Gangsters in World War II American Informational Films Steven D . Reschly and Katherine Jellison 80
The Power Is Yours : The Deep Ecology of Captain Planet Robert L . Lively 109
“ The Wrong Side of Heaven , the Righteous Side of Hell ”: Religion , Faith , and Belief in Ted Chiang ' s Stories of Your Life and Others Tammy Wahpeconiah 130
How Shakespeare Perpetuates the Tudor Myth Reza Parchizadeh 148
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