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Why Popular Culture Matters THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL MIDWEST PCA/ACA VOLUME 7 | NUMBER 1 | 2019 WHY POPULAR CULTURE MATTERS EDITED BY: CARRIELYnn D. REINHARD POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1 2019 Editor CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD Dominican University Managing Editor JULIA LARGENT McPherson College Assistant Editor GARRET L. CASTLEBERRY Mid-America Christian University Copy Editor KEVIN CALCAMP Queens University of Charlotte Reviews Editor MALYNNDA JOHNSON Indiana State University Assistant Reviews Editor CHRISTOPHER J. OLSON University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graphics Editor ETHAN CHITTY Purdue University Please visit the PCSJ at: http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular- culture-studies-journal. Popular Culture Studies Journal is the official journal of the Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. Copyright © 2019 Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. All rights reserved. MPCA/ACA, 421 W. Huron St Unit 1304, Chicago, IL 60654 EDITORIAL BOARD CORTNEY BARKO PAUL BOOTH West Virginia University DePaul University KATIE WILSON ANTHONY ADAH University of Louisville Minnesota State University, Moorhead GARY BURNS BRIAN COGAN Northern Illinois University Molloy College ART HERBIG ANDREW F. HERRMANN Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne East Tennessee State University CARLOS D. MORRISON KIT MEDJESKY Alabama State University University of Findlay SALVADOR MURGUIA ANGELA NELSON Akita International University Bowling Green State University CARYN NEUMANN ALLISON R. LEVIN Miami University Webster University JENNIFER FARRELL Milwaukee School of Engineering ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Why Popular Culture Matters ........................ 1 CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD Special Entry: Multimedia Presentation of “Why Popular Culture Matters” ............................................ 4 CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD Editorial: I’m So Bored with the Canon: Removing the Qualifier “Popular” from Our Cultures .......................... 6 SCOTT M. BRUNER ARTICLES Special Entry: 2017 Gary Burns Graduate Student Travel Grant Award Winner Watch, Go, Now: “TV Everywhere” and the Promotion of Liveness ...................................................... 17 CARTER MOULTON “What’s the Difference Between Men and Women?”: Hegemonic Masculinity in The Walking Dead ................................................................... 36 GRAEME JOHN WILSON “Breaking Bad”: Periodically Justifiable ............................. 58 M. N. ROBERTS iii “It Was Amazing to Be There to Witness It”: Online Fan Reactions to Rufus Wainwright’s All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu Live Tour .................... 81 STEPHANIE SALERNO Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in Print and Film: Imaginations, Catastrophes, and the Being-with of Being............................................................... 104 MIKE PIERO Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?: Gendered Legacies in Hamilton........................................... 125 JESSICA SEYMOUR Sin City and Color: Comic Adaptation and Shifting Meanings ................................................................. 143 ERIN B. WAGGONER REVIEWS The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction ............................................................................. 165 Malynnda A. Johnson Book Reviews ........................................................................ 166 Safiya Umoja Noble. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press, 2018 ............................................................ 166 Andrew Kettler iv Douglas E. Cowan. America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King. New York University Press, 2018 .......................................... 169 Kurt Edward Milberger Derek S. Jeffreys. America’s Jails: The Search for Human Dignity in an Age of Mass Incarceration. New York University Press, 2018 .......................................... 172 Jennifer Schneider Kendall R. Phillips. A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema. University of Texas Press, 2018 ............................................. 175 Matthew Sautman Clara E. Rodríguez. America, As Seen on TV: How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations Around the Globe. New York University Press, 2018 ........................ 178 Nicole Plummer Marcel Danesi. Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture. Rowman and Littlefield, 2017 .................................. 181 Ralph Beliveau Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre. Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South. University Press of Mississippi, 2016 ................... 183 Michael S. Bruner v Megan Sapnar Ankerson. Dot-Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web. New York University Press, 2018 .......................................... 185 Dennis Owen Frohlich Casey B. Hart. The Evolution and Social Impact of Video Game Economics. Lexington, 2017 ......................... 188 Bradley Wolfe Steven J. Ross. Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America. Bloomsbury, 2017................................................................... 190 Kraig Larkin Jeff Tweedy. Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, etc. Dutton, 2018 ........................................................................... 192 Theodore G. Petersen Randall E. Auxier. Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock. Carus Publishing Company, 2017 ....................................................................... 195 Benjamin van Loon Nancy K. Baym. Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection. New York University Press, 2018 .......................................... 198 Natalia Kovalyova vi Elizabeth Benacka. Rhetoric, Humor, and the Public Sphere: From Socrates to Stephen Colbert. Lexington Books, 2017 ........................................................... 200 Scott Anderson Andi Zeisler. We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to Covergirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement. Public Affairs, 2016 .............................. 202 Amy M. Corey Lucy Bennett and Paul Booth. Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 ..................... 206 Matthew Brittingham Christian Abrahamsson. Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought. University of Nebraska Press, 2018 ....................................... 208 Christopher Jackson Film and Television Reviews ............................................... 212 Green Book. Universal Pictures, 2018 ................................... 212 Amy Absher The Kindergarten Teacher. Pie Films, 2018 .......................... 215 Gordon Alley-Young Shoplifters. Aoi Pro, Inc., 2018 .............................................. 218 Miyabi Goto vii Udaari. Momina Duraid Productions, 2016 ........................... 220 Sakina Jangbar Game Reviews ....................................................................... 224 The Mind. Pandasaurus Games, 2018 ..................................... 224 Alexis Pulos and Kristen L. Cole Poké Ball Plus, Nintendo, 2018.............................................. 226 David R. Stanley The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31, Mondo Games and Project Raygun, 2017 ....................................................... 229 Christopher J. Olson Theatrical Reviews................................................................ 232 Soft Power. Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, 2018 ......... 232 Stephanie Lim ABOUT THE JOURNAL .............................................. 237 viii Introduction: Why Popular Culture Matters CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD This is my first issue as the new editor for this journal, so please grant me some leeway to address the question of why popular culture matters being highlighted in these pages, including with our first attempt at a multimedia, interactive component. Please indulge my brief time on the soap box to explain my perspective to hopefully clarify my approach as the Editor of this journal. I come to this—field? discipline? interest? passion?—from three separate perspectives: communication studies, fan studies, and psychology. I am fascinated with how people make sense of themselves, each other, and the world around them. Being a fan provides a particular slant to these sense-makings and can shape, and be shaped by, communication. I see all interactions with others as communicating because meaning is always exchanged. Sometimes that meaning is exchanged in a word; sometimes a picture; sometimes a cake; sometimes a slap. As a part of a person’s identity, fandom informs, is created through, and impacts others through communication. The context or situation in which the communication occurs also shapes these interactions. Time of day. Place. Participants. So many factors impact what we communicate, how, and why. Popular culture comes in through our fandoms and our situations. Popular culture is popular. It is for the public. The masses. For everyday working folk who perhaps could not afford the “finer” things of a society or culture but still find meaning and solidarity through so-called “low culture.” Popular culture helps people handle the drudgery of labor for the profit of others. Popular culture provides an education, a socialization to further people’s interactions and, perhaps, people’s status in life. Popular culture can reassure people that they are not alone, and it can challenge the status quo. Popular culture can unite, either in a narrow way around a specific
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