Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2000 | Page 7

Introduction
While the year 2000 isn’t really the millennium, it does presage a new way of
looking at our culture. In this issue we offer an array of perspectives on film,
literature, comic books, television, music — and even wrestling — that reflect
where we are now. Issues of gender disruption, racial prejudices and stereotyping,
and class divisions appear in many of the articles, most particularly in Karen Lynch’s
analyses of treatments of “Chinatowns” in film, television, and fiction; Jack
Bushnell’s study of the evolution of the comic, Swamp Thing; and David J.
Lambkin’s portrayal of the female charac ѕȁMѽɴ