Popular Culture Review
Volume 16, no. 2
Summer 2005
Introduction.
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Tennessee Williams and Sports.
Philip C. Kolin
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Risk-as-Pleasure.........................................................................23
Laurens Tan
Secularizing the Saint: The Journey of St. George's Day from Feast
Day to Horse Race..................................................................... 37
James H. Forse
Jacques Derrida Visits Cicely:
The Deconstruction of Northern
Exposure .............................................................................................. 45
Donald J. Newman
Satirical Irony in Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale............. 59
Kevin A. Morrison
Calamity Jane and the Social Construction of Gender in the 1930s and
1950s................................................ ....................................... 69
Anna Louise Bates
America's New McCarthyism: Homosexual Stereotypes, Myths, and the
Politics of Fear............................................................................83
Mel Seesholtz
Struggling to Remember: War, Trauma, and theAdventures of
Thursday Next.......................................................................... 117
Heather Lusty
Learning From Las Vegas: Hollywood Narrates theSimulacrum..... 131
Sergio Rizzo
Las Vegas Odyssey: The Poetics of Domination............................ 145
Roberta Sabbath
Contributors............................................................................153