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THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL SHOWCASE FEATURES Sexual Violence THIS IS THE END Political Around The and Rhetoric and sympathy Post-9/11 Association of in HOUSE CARDS America Small Bombs of and and parafictional SCANDAL personas Representing Labor in Nicholas Winding Refn SHABASHTHE THE BANGLADESHI AND THE MOVIE SITE TRANSCULTURAL SUPERHERO BYNWR TRAVELERS American Monomyth MARILYN & MONROE & DEAD White Savior Narrative in celebrity Free State of Jones personas Narrative displeasure, Nia Nal the Super Girl MS. BDSM aNd traNSgeNder , repreSeNtatioN MARVEL (Kamala Khan) and representation and video games of Muslim women REGULAR FEATURES SEXISM AND RACISM IN FAN LABOR AND ELVIS IMPERSONATORS FLEISCHER BLACK IDENTITY IN SUPERMAN DEAR WHITE PEOPLE CARTOONS Edited by: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2 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: 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 KATIE WILSON PAUL BOOTH West Virginia University University of Louisville DePaul University JENNIFER FARRELL CARYN NEUMANN ALLISON R. LEVIN Milwaukee School of Miami University Webster University Engineering ZACHARY MATUSHESKI ANGELA NELSON ADAM RUGG Ohio State University Bowling Green State Fairfield University University DARRYL CLARK DONNA WALLER HARPER AMANDA PICHE Southern Illinois University- Independent Scholar Ryerson University Carbondale BRADY SIMENSON EERO LAINE J. ROCKY COLAVITO Northern Illinois University State University of New Butler University York-Buffalo BRIAN JANSEN BRITTNEY KOEHNLEIN JUSTIN WIGARD Red Deer College Indiana University Michigan State University JENNIFER GRINDSTAFF JONATHAN EVANS LEIGH EDWARDS John Wood Community University of Portsmouth Florida State University College KATHLEEN KOLLMAN KIMBERLY BALDUS MATTHEW NICOSIA Bowling Green State University of Missouri- Rochester Institute of University St. Louis Technology MARISSA DOSHI MATTHEW BRITTINGHAM SHARON LAURICELLA Hope College Emory University University of Ontario Institute of Technology MILENA POPOVA RAYMOND SCHUCK Independent Scholar Bowling Green State University ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Students and the Future of Popular Culture Studies ......................................................................................................... 1 CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD ARTICLES: Inaugural Student Showcase The White Knight of Jones County: American Monomyth and White Savior Narratives in Free State of Jones ............................................. 6 TAYLOR KATZ “Give Me the Seth Rogan Laugh”: This Is the End and Parafictional Persona ............................................................................................. 25 BRADLEY J. DIXON The Picture of Marilyn Monroe: How Oscar Wilde Predicts the Frightening Afterlife of the Dead Celebrity Persona ................................... 39 BRADY SIMENSON The “Worlding” of the Muslim Superheroine: An Analysis of Ms. Marvel’s Kamala Khan ................................................................................... 56 SAFIYYA HOSEIN “Grave and Growing Threats”: The Association of Small Bombs and the Persistence of Post-9/11 Narratives ............................................ 70 LIZZIE MARTIN Nia Nal the Super Girl: Transgender Representation and Body Image ............................................................................................................. 85 SARAH F. PRICE Shabash, the First-ever Bangladeshi Superhero: Transnational, Transculural and Transcreated .......................................................................... 107 ANIS RAHMAN “The Mission Comes First”: Representations and Expectations of Labor in Travelers ............................................................................................ 122 KATHLEEN W. TAYLOR KOLLMAN iii Embracing the Bad Victim: Sexual Violence and Sympathy on Popular Television .......................................................................................... 140 SHADIA SILIMAN Look at What You’ve Done: Exploring Narrative Displeasure in Video Games ..................................................................................................... 158 STEVEN PROUDFOOT “An Unadulterated Cultural Expressway for the Arts”: Exploring the Theoretical Possibilities of byNWR.com .................................... 179 CHRISTOPHER J. OLSON ARTICLES: Regular Submissions “They See a Caricature”: Expanding Media Representations of Black Identity in Dear White People .............................................................. 195 GRAEME JOHN WILSON Fleischer Studio’s Superman and a Darker Side of the “Good War” .......................................................................................................... 217 ALLAN W. AUSTIN The Myth of the Perfect Place: Creating a Voyeuristic Utopia in House Hunters International .............................................................. 238 EMILY SAUTER AND KEVIN SAUTER Fighters and Fathers: Managing Masculinity in Contemporary Boxing Cinema ..................................................................................................... 257 JOSH SOPIARZ Conspiracy, Poverty, and Lost Children in Tracy Lett’s Bug and The X-Files ..................................................................................................... 273 THOMAS FAHY Scholarly Parody: Danielewski’s House of Leaves ........................................... 294 BILL CLOUGH Between Mimicry and Difference: Performing Elvis(es) ................................. 307 BETH EMILY RICHARDS iv REVIEWS The Popular Culture Studies Journal Reviews: Introduction ............................................................................................................ 326 Christopher J. Olson Book Reviews ........................................................................................................ 328 Bernstein, Dan. Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms. U of Nebraska Press, 2019. .............................................................. 328 Danielle Deavours Ciafone, Amanda. Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation. U of California Press, 2019. .......................................... 331 Rohini S. Singh Eckard, Sandra, ed. Comic Connections: Reflecting on Women in Popular Culture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. ................................... 333 Ryan Johnson Foster, David William. El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil. U of Texas Press, 2016. ............................................................................................................ 335 Luis Sáenz de Viguera Erkiaga Jeffries, Dru. Comic Book Film Style: Cinema at 24 Panels Per Second. Austin: U of Texas Press, 2017. ........................................................ 338 Tim Posada Johnston, Brian and Susan Mackey-Kallis. Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2: A Love Story. Lexington, 2019. ............................................................................. 341 Rachel E. Silverman Loza, Susann. Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times. Lexington, 2018. .............................................. 343 Daniel Keyes v Stache, Lara C. Breaking Bad: A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. ................................................................................. 346 Tiara K. Good Steeves, H. Peter. Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomenological Aesthetics and the Life of Art. State U of NY Press, 2018. .................................................................................... 348 Zachary Sheldon Stoddart, Scott F. & Michael Samuel, eds. True Detective: Critical Essays on the HBO Series. Lexington, 2018. ........................................... 351 Michael Mario Albrecht Sullivan, Randall. The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt. Atlantic Monthly, 2018. ............................. 354 Brian de Ruiter Williams, Monica. The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma. New York UP, 2018. ............................................................................................. 357 Lindsey Bartgis Zoglin, Richard. Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show. Simon & Schuster, 2019. ..................................................... 360 Simon Stow Other Media Reviews .......................................................................................... 362 Eighth Grade. Directed by Bo Bernham. Screenplay by Bo Burnham. Perf. Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, and Emily Robinson. A24, 2018. ............................................................................................ 362 Kelly C. George “Chapter Twenty: The Mephisto Waltz.” Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, part 2, episode 9. Dir. Rob Seidenglanz. Teleplay