THE POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2 & 3 2018 Editor NORMA JONES Liquid Flicks Media, Inc./IXMachine 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 JESSICA BENHAM University of Pittsburgh 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 © 2018 Midwest Popular and American Culture Association. All rights reserved. MPCA/ACA, 421 W. Huron St Unit 1304, Chicago, IL 60654 Cover credit: Cover Artwork: “Bump in the Night” by Brent Jones © 2018 Courtesy of Pixabay/Kellepics EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD ANTHONY ADAH PAUL BOOTH Minnesota State University, Moorhead DePaul University GARY BURNS ANNE M. CANAVAN Northern Illinois University Salt Lake Community College BRIAN COGAN ASHLEY M. DONNELLY Molloy College Ball State University LEIGH H. EDWARDS KATIE FREDICKS Florida State University Rutgers University ART HERBIG ANDREW F. HERRMANN Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne East Tennessee State University JESSE KAVADLO KATHLEEN A. KENNEDY Maryville University of St. Louis Missouri State University SARAH MCFARLAND TAYLOR KIT MEDJESKY Northwestern University University of Findlay CARLOS D. MORRISON SALVADOR MURGUIA Alabama State University Akita International University CARYN NEUMANN ANGELA NELSON Miami University Bowling Green State University PAUL PETROVIC CARRIELYNN D. REINHARD Emmanuel College Dominican University SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL BOARD Monstrosity EDITOR BERNADETTE MARIE CALAFELL University of Denver BOARD SHADEE ABDI JOSHUA ATKINSON Arizona State University Bowling Green State University DAOINE BACHRAN BETTINA BILDHAUER University of Denver University of Saint Andrews KYLE WILLIAM BISHOP KINITRA BROOKS Southern Utah University Michigan State University PETER ODELL CAMPBELL JAMES L. CHERNEY University of Pittsburgh Independent Scholar LINDSEY DECKER HANEEN GHABRA Boston University Kuwait University STEVEN GRANELLI CALEB J. GREEN Northeastern University University of Denver BRIAN GREWE RACHEL ALICIA GRIFFIN University of Denver University of Utah JOSHUA GUNN ROBERT GUTIERREZ-PEREZ University of Texas, Austin University of Nevada, Reno BRENDAN G. A. HUGHES SOPHIE JONES Metropolitan State University of Denver University of New Mexico RICHARD G. JONES JR. ERIC KING WATTS Eastern Illinois University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CASEY RYAN KELLY AMANDA LEBLANC University of Nebraska-Lincoln Adams State University MURRAY LEEDER BENNY LEMASTER University of Calgary Arizona State University DAVID J. LEONARD MARINA LEVINA Washington State University The University of Memphis SUSANA LOZA AMANDA MARTINEZ Hampshire College Davidson College DAWN MARIE D. MCINTOSH JASON MCROY Independent Scholar University of Wisconsin, Parkside ROBERT MEJIA RAQUEL MOREIRA North Dakota State University Graceland University THOMAS OATES KENDALL R. PHILLIPS University of Iowa Syracuse University PAVITHRA PRASAD CRISTINA SANTOS California State University, Northridge Brock University CLAIRE SISCO KING CRAIG WEATHERS Vanderbilt University University of Denver Editorial: Six Years! 1 Norma Jones ARTICLES Cylons, Dolls, and Hosts: The Cyborg Plot Twist in Science 4 Fiction Television EMILY MIDKIFF “I'm too Drunk to Taste this Chicken”: The Hidden Poetry of 28 Will Ferrell's Comedies LAURA GARRISON “Look at the Flowers”: Utilitarian Themes in the Post- 51 Apocalypse KRISTINE LEVAN “I’m into this Woodworking Stuff”: Hipster Masculinity and 72 Adam Sackler on HBO’s Girls MICHAEL MARIO ALBRECHT SPECIAL ISSUE Monstrosity Introduction to the Special Issue 94 BERNADETTE MARIE CALAFELL Transing Dystopia: Constituting Trans Monstrosity, 96 Performing Trans Rage in Torrey Peters’ Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones BENNY LEMASTER Removing Racism from White Bodies: Peter Cvjetanovic’s 118 White Masculine Monstrosity DAWN MARIE D. MCINTOSH Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse and other Neocolonial 145 Monsters During the Endless Global War on Terrorism MAROUF HASIAN, JR. AND SEAN T. LAWSON “If It’s in A Word”: Intersectional Feminism, Precarity, and 166 The Babadook CLAIRE SISCO KING Awakening the Civic Dead: Political Mobilization of the 190 Zombie in Real Time NANCY WADSWORTH A Very Well Tailored Person Suit: Hannibal Lecter, America 217 Gothic and Cannibal Neoliberal Capitalism ALENA KIEL ChicanX “Monsters” and ChicanX/LatinX “Futures” in Film 239 (Or, Searching for LatinXs in Sci-Fi Movies) MICHAEL LECHUGA, ROBERTO AVANT-MIER, AND KATHERINE ALANIS RAMÍREZ Resurrecting the Witch: The Reanimation of the Witch 263 Archetype and Toxic White Femininity in American Horror Story: Coven MARYLOU R. NAUMOFF Crafting a Monstrously Queer Space: A Medicalized Gothic 287 Reading of Nathaniel Highmore’s Case of a Foetus Found in the Abdomen of a Young Man SHANE MILLER Voting Horrors: Youthful, Monstrous, and Worrying Agency in 306 American Film DEREK LEWIS Zaha Hadid: Locating the Monster Within Architecture 326 CATHRYN LADD Monstrosity in Everyday Life: Nepantleras, Theories in the 345 Flesh, and Transformational Politics ROBERT GUTIERREZ-PEREZ Erecting and Impaling the Monstrous Social Justice Warrior in 369 The Green Inferno MATTHEW FOY Something’s Not Right: Monstrous Motherhood and Traumatic 399 Survival in Among the Sleep BIANCA BATTI The Literary Zombie in Robin Becker’s Brains: “How Pop 420 Culture Illuminates and Comments on the Current Zombie Crisis” T. MAY STONE Hair-raising and knee taking: Colin Kaepernick’s Monstrous 441 Persona & Nonviolent Civil Disobedience SCARLETT R. HESTER SPECIAL ISSUE: INTERVIEWS Latin Horror is Luchagore: An Interview With Luchagore 462 Productions CALEB GREEN If It’s Not Intersectional, It’s Not Monstrosity: An Interview on 474 Horror and Monstrosity with Marina Levina MIRANDA OLZMAN Horror Films Almost Dare You to Come and Watch Them: An 484 Interview With Kendall Phillips HANEEN GHABRA REVIEWS 492 Introduction MALYNNDA JOHNSON Babic, Annessa Ann. America's Changing Icons: Constructing Patriotic Women from World War I to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. Tiara Good Womack, Kenneth, and Cox, Kathryn B. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love. Lexington Books, 2017. Gaurav Pai Olson, Liesl. Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Adam Q. Stauffer Garcia, Vanessa, and Arkerson, Samantha. Crime, Media, and Reality: Examining Mixed Messages About Crime in Popular Media. Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. Print. Monica Klonowski Natoli, Joseph. Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries: A Mind’s Odyssey. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2017. Rachel Presley Theodore G. Ammon, editor, David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel Rebel. Open Court, 2016. Noah Franken Steven Shaviro. Digital Music Videos (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture). Rutgers University Press, 2017. Marci Mazzarotto Wills, John. Disney Culture. Rutgers University Press, 2017. Anna Halipilias Matthews David, Alison. Fashion Victims: Dangers of Dress Past and Present. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2017. Alexandra Jordan Thelin Engstrom, Erika. Feminism, Gender, and Politics in NBC’s Parks and Recreation. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2017. Print. Lori Henson Darowski, Joseph J, and Kate Darowski. Frasier: A Cultural History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Paul Arras Condis, Megan. Gaming Masculinity: Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture. University of Iowa Press, 2018. Kyle Robert McMillen Gunkel, David J. Gaming the System: Deconstructing Video Games, Games Studies, and Virtual Worlds. Indiana University Press, 2018. Scott R. Stalcup Rabinowitz, Aaron and Robert Axp editors. Hamilton and Philosophy: Revolutionary Thinking. Open Court Publishing Company, 2017. Melissa M. Spirek Flanagan, Martin, Andrew Livingstone, and Mike McKenny. The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016. Curtis Sullivan Auxier, Randall E. Metaphysical Graffiti: Deep Cuts in the Philosophy of Rock. Open Court, 2017. Benjamin van Loon Kee, Chera. Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Dead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks. University of Texas Press, 2017. Matt Sautman Christian, Aymar Jean. Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television. NYU Press, 2018. James Perez Heyrman, John. Politcs, Hollywood Style: American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma. Lexington Books, 2018. Katherine R. Fleck Santino, Jack. Public Performances: Studies in the Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque, Utah State University Press, 2017 Lauren Cheek Lopez, Marco, Hazel Newlevant, Desiree Rodriguez, Derek Ruiz, and Neil Schwartz, editors. Puerto Rico Strong: A Comics Anthology Supporting Puerto Rico Disaster. Lion Forge. 2018. Joe Cruz Pugh, Tison, The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018. Jennifer Miller Brown, Simon. Screening Stephen King: Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television. University of Texas Press, 2018. Michelle Kay Hansen Cavalcante, Andre. Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life. New York University Press, 2018. Nicholas Lepp Boudreaux, Armond, and Corey Latta, Titans: How Superheroes Can Help Us Make Sense of a Polarized World. Cascade Books. 2017. Matthew