STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE

Spring 2010 32.2 [ go here to find a pdf of the entire issue]

v From the editor: No Monoliths Here

1 Striking Back Without Missing a Beat: Radical Responses to Domestic Violence in Country Music’s The Dixie Chicks and Salsa’s Celia Cruz

—Delia Poey

17 “But This Is the South”: Ambivalent Regionalism in Jan Karon’s Mitford Novels

—Eleanor Hersey Nickel

35 Adapting Shakespeare for Star Trek and Star Trek for Shakespeare: The Klingon Hamlet and the Spaces of Translation

—Karolina Kazimierczak

57 The Jesus Fish: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

—Todd Edmondson

67 The Politics of the "Open" Self: America in the Cinemas of King Vidor and Robert Altman

—Margaret Hrezo and William E. Hrezo

85 Like a “Whopper Virgin”: Anthropological Reflections on Burger King’s Controversial Ad Campaign

—Ty Matejowsky

101 The Portrayal of Racial Minorities on Prime Time Television: A Replication of the Mastro and Greenberg Study a Decade Later

—Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Mary Heiserman, Crystle Johnson, Vanity Cotton, and Manny Jackson

115 Book Reviews

115 Allen, Glen Scott. Master Mechanics & Wicked Wizards: Images of the American Scientist as Hero and Villain from Colonial Times to the Present. Rev. Doug Davis.

119 Beeler, Karin. Seers, Witches, and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film. Rev. Ananya Mukherjea.

122 Di Liddo, Annalisa. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel. Rev. Robert T. Koch Jr.

123 Waksman, Steve. This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. Rev. Charles Grey.

127 Contributors