Popular Culture Review
Volume 16, no. 2
Summer 2005
Introduction.
Tennessee Williams and Sports............................................................. 5
Philip C. Kolin
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. Parse
Derrida Visits Cicely:
The Deconstruction of Northern
Exposure .............................................................................................. 45
Donald J. Newman
Jacques
Satirical Irony in Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor'sT ale .................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