Popular Culture Review
Volume xiy no. 2
Introduction..................................................................................................................3
Chinese Red Packets: Reflecting Changes o f Cultures and Relations
Kin Wai Michael S iu ...................................................................................................5
"'Breaking"' Hollywood's Stereotype o f the Japanese American:
The Significance o f the Film Go for Broke!
Joy Y. Nishie and Erika Engstrom............................................................................17
The Evocation o f Death in Dorothy Dandridges Photograph:
The Reading o f a Still
Charlene Regester......................................................................................................29
Strategic Self-Commodification As Resistance:
The Complexity o f Media-Transmitted African-American Cultural Attitudes
Keiko N itta................................................................................................................ 39
Jasper Johns 'Painted Bronze Revisited: Art Posing as Product
Deborah H. Cibelli.....................................................................................................53
S/He's Got It All: Myths, Mechanics, and Mystery In Cross-Dressing
Striptease and Burlesque Performers
Jon Donlon..................................................................................................................65
The New Horizon o f the Moving Image: Digital Production in the 21"’ Century’
Wheeler Winston D ixon........................................................................................... 75
A Drive through the City: VW's Safe and Delusional Urban Setting
Ross Talarico............................................................................................................. 85
Towards a New Modernism in European Comics?
Jan B aetens................................................................................................................ 89
The Half-Baked Cultural Detective: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
as Postmodern Noir
Daniel G rassian.........................................................................................................99