STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE [Go here to find a PDF of the entire issue]Fall 2011 34.1

v From the editor: Art for Someone Else's Sake

1 Protecting a City’s Image: The Death of Las Vegas Beat, 1961

—Larry Dale Gragg

23 The Final Girl versus Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street: Proposing a Stronger Model of Feminism in Slasher Horror Cinema

—Kyle Christensen

49 “And I Started Wondering . . .”: Voiceover and Conversation in Sex and the City

—Ashli Dykes

67 Refrigerator Design and Masculinity in Postwar Media, 1946-1960

—Paul Gansky

87 Pop Culture, Politics, and America's Favorite Animated Family: Partisan Bias in The Simpsons?

—Kenneth Michael White and Mirya Holman

109 Evaluating the Presence of Social Strain in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV

—Patrick Osborne

133 Xtravaganza!: Drag Representation and Articulation in RuPaul’s Drag Race

—Eir-Anne Edgar

147 Book Reviews