STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE [Go here to find a PDF of the entire issue]

Spring 2008 30.2

Front Matter

v From the Editor: Crossing Media Lines

1 Little America: R.E.M., Howard Finster, and the Southern "Outsider Art" Aesthetic

Matthew Sutton

21 Brokeback Mountain: Masculinity and Manhood

James R. Keller and Anne Goodwyn Jones

37 Race, Crime, and Motherhood in George Pelecanos's Soul Circus

Alexander Pitofsky

59 The Politics of Talk: The Oprah Interview as Narrative

Sarah Henstra

79 Survival of the Stereotypical: A Study of Personal Characteristics and Order of Elimination on Reality Television

Bryan E. Denham and Richelle N. Jones

100 A Car of Her Own: Volvo's "Your Concept Car" as a Vehicle for Feminism?

Roy Schwartzman and Merci Decker

119 Trainspotting, High Fidelity, and the Diction of Addiction

Scott Stalcup

137 Book Reviews