STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE

Fall 2009 32.1. Go here to find a PDF of the Entire Issue

Front Pages

v From the Editor: Moral Choices in the Art of Popular Culture

1 "Spiritual Warfare" and Intolerance in Popular Culture: The Left Behind Franchise, the Commodification of Belief, and the Consequences for Imagination

Marnie Jones

21 The Narcissism of Bipartisanship: Accessing Ann Coulter on the Internet

Lindsey Ives

37 "Not Like Other Men"?: The Vampire Body in Joss Whedon's Angel

Lorna Jowett

53 "...long before the stars were torn down ...": Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan's "Brownsville Girl"

Katherine Weiss

67 Death and Magic in Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions: A Terror Management Perspective

Jonathan Bassett

79 Disneyfying Dickens: Oliver & Company and The Muppet Christmas Carol as Dickensian Musicals

Marc Napolitano

103 Even a Tramp Can Dream: An Examination of the Clash Between "High Art" and "Low Art" in the Films of Charlie Chaplin

Richard Ward

117 Book Reviews

117 Ellis, Iain. Rebels wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists (rev. David Janssen)

119 Fliotsos, Anne, and Wendy Vierow. American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century (rev. Jeanne Beckwith)

122 Heer, Jeet, and Kent Worcester, eds. A Comics Studies Reader (rev. Kristine Whorton)

125 Janssen, David, and Edward Whitelock. Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music (rev. George Plasketes)

129 Contributors