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THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 1 & 2 2016 Editor BOB BATCHELOR Miami University Associate Editor KATHLEEN TURNER Aurora University Managing and Production Editor NORMA JONES Smartypop.com Reviews Editor JENNIFER C. DUNN Dominican University Assistant Reviews Editor SAMANTHA LATHAM Independent Scholar Please visit the PCSJ at: http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/ The Popular Culture Studies Journal is the official journal of the Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. Copyright © 2016 Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. All rights reserved. MPCA/ACA, 421 W. Huron St Unit 1304, Chicago, IL 60654 Cover credit Cover Artwork: “Comics and Popular Culture” by Brent Jones © 2016 EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD ANTHONY ADAH VICTOR EVANS Minnesota State University, Moorhead Seattle University AARON BARLOW JUSTIN GARCIA New York City College of Technology (CUNY) Millersville University Faculty Editor, Academe, the magazine of the AAUP ART HERBIG JOSEF BENSON Indiana University - University of Wisconsin Parkside Purdue University, Fort Wayne PAUL BOOTH ANDREW F. HERRMANN DePaul University East Tennessee State University GARY BURNS JARED JOHNSON Northern Illinois University Thiel College KELLI S. BURNS JESSE KAVADLO University of South Florida Maryville University of St. Louis ANNE M. CANAVAN KATHLEEN A. KENNEDY Emporia State University Missouri State University GARRET CASTLEBERRY WILLIAM KIST Oklahoma City University Kent State University ERIN MAE CLARK LARRY Z. LESLIE Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota University of South Florida BRIAN COGAN MATTHEW MIHALKA Molloy College University of Arkansas - Fayetteville ASHLEY M. DONNELLY LAURIE MOROCO Ball State University Colorado Mountain College LEIGH H. EDWARDS CARLOS D. MORRISON Florida State University Alabama State University SALVADOR MURGUIA PHIL SIMPSON Akita International University Eastern Florida State College ANGELA M. NELSON SARAH MCFARLAND TAYLOR Bowling Green State University Northwestern University PAUL PETROVIC KATHLEEN TURNER Emmanuel College Aurora University LAUREANO RALON MARYAN WHERRY Figure/Ground Communication Western Illinois University Quad-Cities CARRIELYNN D. REINHARDT SHAWN DAVID YOUNG Dominican University York College of Pennsylvania THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 1 & 2 2016 CONTENTS Producing Popular Culture 1 Bob Batchelor ARTICLES “It’s All About the Dress!”: An Examination of 150 Years of 4 Cinderella Picture Book Covers Linda A. Robinson and Susan M. Wildermuth A New, Screen-based Aesthetic 41 Eric K. Hatch Common Queer Readers Band Together on YouTube 56 John Pruitt Shakespeare, Digeridoos, and Samurai Cowboys: Remixing 83 National and Cultural Identities in Sukiyaki Western Django Christopher J. Olson A Pedagogy of Communion: Theorizing Popular Culture 106 Pedagogy Kyle A. Hammonds and Karen Anderson-Lain Man Up: Gendered Representations in Halt and Catch Fire and 133 Silicon Valley Melissa Vosen Callens “It’s my turn, Babe”: Postfeminism and the Dual-Career 153 Marriage on Friday Night Lights J. Scott Oberacker Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of Anita Loos: A Girl 186 Like I as Prequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Leslie Kreiner Wilson The Taming of Homosexuality on the Popular Sitcom, Will & 212 Grace Krysten Stein Survivor Shows and Caveman Masculinity 240 Jared Champion Being Forced to Play and Ending the Game: Disengagement, 259 Dissent, Revolt, Rebellion, and Revolution in The Hunger Games Jérôme Melançon INTERVIEW 290 The Popular Culture Studies Journal Interview RANDY DUNCAN SPECIAL ISSUE Stan Lee and the Marvel Universe Introduction 298 Bob Batchelor Template for Tomorrow: The Fantastic Four Lee/Kirby 301 Partnership that Birthed the Marvel Age of Comics and, Ultimately, the Marvel Universe Alan Jozwiak Language and Meaning from The Marvel Universe in Creating 340 an Inclusive Fan Culture Joseph P. Muszynski True Believers: Stan Lee and the Legitimization of the Comics 359 Fan Community Peter Bryan Cullen Think Pieces on Stan Lee and the Marvel Universe 376 Time with Stan Lee Here and There Arthur Asa Berger Face Front, True Believers!: Stan Lee and the Gen X Trinity Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan What if Stan Lee didn’t change his name? Jeff McLaughlin Hung Up on Superhero Sex Organs? Why Mallrats Remains Stan Lee’s Greatest Movie Role John Kenneth Muir In Praise of Heroes Robert McParland The Clouded Legacy of a Comic Book Legend Joseph J. Darowski Stan Lee: Thinking About an Icon’s Legacy Bob Batchelor Marvel Reviews 411 Ms. Marvel: Vol. 1-4 Alan Jozwiak Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event. Shawn Starcher “The Dark Phoenix Saga.” Uncanny X-Men Nicholas Scott Smith Daredevil Christopher J. Olson Agent Carter Anthony DiSanto REVIEWS 433 Introduction Jennifer C. Dunn Downton Abbey and Philosophy: Thinking in That Manor, Edited by Adam Barkman and Robert Arp The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable! Edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene Dracula and Philosophy: Dying to Know, Edited by Nicholas Michaud and Janelle Lötzsch William J. White It’s Always Sunny and Philosophy: The Gang Gets Analyzed, Edited by Roger Hunt and Robert Arp, and Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield, Edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robinson-Greene Hunter H. Fine The Search for Meaning in Film and Television: Disenchantment at the Turn of the Millennium by Marcus Maloney Mani Saravanan Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: “Pragmatism not Idealism” by Phil Rose Christopher M. Duerringer Smartphones as Locative Media by Jordan Frith Kara Jolliff Gould The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert Mary Alice Adams Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture by Robert McParland Josh Simpson Punishment in Popular Culture by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat Andi McClanahan American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures by Jesse Kavadlo Kathleen Turner Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli by Ted Merwin Tara J. Schuwerk Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism by Brian S. Hoffman Jay Hudkins Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature & Film, Edited by Jeremy Withers and Daniel P. Shea Brenda Tyrrell The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England, Edited by Andrew Hadfield, Matthew Dimmock, and Abigail Shinn Nicole Costantini Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications, Edited by Kathleen Glenister Roberts Jennifer F. Wood Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature by Rebecca Sanchez Anna Stamp The Intersection of Star Culture in American and International Medical Tourism: Celebrity Treatment by Kathy Merlock Jackson, Lisa Lyon Payne, and Kathy Shepherd Stolley Heather J. Carmack Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation by Elizabeth Ellcessor Malynnda Johnson Disability, Obesity and Aging: Popular Media Identifications by Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis, and Pia Lebeck Tina Sikka SAVING FACE: Disfigurement & the Politics of Appearance by Heather Laine Talley Chris Richardson This Year’s Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour by Elizabeth Wissinger Elizabeth Fish Hatfield Contemporary Latina/o Media: Production Circulation, Politics, Edited by Arlene Dávila and Yeidy M. Rivero Leandra H. Hernández Soul, Country, and the USA: Race and Identity in American Music Culture by Stephanie Shonekan Patrick G. Richey The South Seas: A Reception History from Daniel Dafoe to Dorothy Lamour by Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon Richard Pineda Global Asian American Popular Cultures by Shilpa Davé, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren Tânia A. Machonisse The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution by Jeremy Matthew Glick Nick J. Sciullo Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality (How African Americans and Gays Mistakenly Thought the Right to Marry Would Set Them Free) by Katherine Franke Chadwick Roberts HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race and Privilege, Edited by Elwood Watson, Jennifer Mitchell, and Marc Edward Shaw Kathleen LeBesco The Lifetime Network: Essays on “Television for Women” in the 21st Century, Edited by Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell Kathleen Turner Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean by Kristi Rowan Humphreys Sarah Symonds LeBlanc Does God Make the Man? Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity by Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats Carlos A. Flores The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics by Ramzi Fawaz Nathan Wilson ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 546 Editorial: Producing Popular Culture BOB BATCHELOR con·text (käntekst) noun: context; plural noun: contexts … Definition: The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. Over the last handful of years, content marketing has become the rage among public relations, advertising, and marketing professionals as a method for engaging with consumers. In a social media-dominated world, content marketing is viewed as a way to creep around the public’s often hair-trigger “being sold to” monitor. From a strategic perspective, content marketing works and is a hot topic because it is basically a fancy term for storytelling. In other words, do not “sell” customers