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Popular Culture Association 2024

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Hot Equations

Hot Equations

By Jesse S. Cohn
Categories: Popular Culture

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds ...

Alt Kid Lit

Alt Kid Lit

Edited by Kenneth B. Kidd & Derritt Mason
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Kristopher Alexander, Amanda K. Allen, Brianna Anderson, Catherine Burwell, Katharine Capshaw, Negin Dahya, Gabriel Duckels, Paige Gray, Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Natasha Hurley, Kenneth ...

Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels

Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels

By James J. Donahue
Categories: Comics Studies

In recent years, studios like Marvel and DC have seen enormous success transforming comics into major motion pictures. At the same time, bookstores such as Barnes & Noble in the US and Indigo in Canada ...

Maverick Feminist

Maverick Feminist

By Kemeshia Randle Swanson
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating qualities have been repeatedly disparaged by the ...

The Sinful Maternal

The Sinful Maternal

By Lauren Rocha
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery are challenging experiences that impact women’s physical, mental, and emotional health in ways that have been historically minimalized, dismissed, or neglected. ...

Superheroes in the Streets

Superheroes in the Streets

By Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Categories: Media Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

The icon of the female protester and her alter-ego, the female superhero, fills screens in the news, in theaters, and in digital spaces. The female protester who is Muslim, though, has been subject to ...

Same Old Song

Same Old Song

By John Paul Meyers
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

Popular music and its listeners are strongly associated with newness and youth. Young people can stay up late dancing to the latest hits and use cutting-edge technology for listening to and sharing fresh ...

Albert Brooks

Albert Brooks

Edited by Alexander Greenhough
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b. 1947), in which he contemplates, expounds upon, and hilariously jokes about the connections between his ...

BOOM! SPLAT!

BOOM! SPLAT!

Edited by Jim Coby & Joanna Davis-McElligatt
Categories: Comics Studies

Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, ...

Jazz in the Hill

Jazz in the Hill

By Colter Harper
Categories: Music And Ethnomusicology
Series: American Made Music Series

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburgh’s Hill District was the heart of the city’s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill: Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh ...