Popular Culture Review
Volume 17, no. 2
W inter/Summer 2006
From the Editor's Desk.................................................................3
Pornumentaries and Sexploitation: The Cultural Signs of Sex............ 5
Daniel F. Ferreras
Recreating Macau in the Image of Las Vegas:
Will Cultural Globalization Come Home to Roost?.......................... 17
Robert W. Duff and Lawrence K. Hong
Gendered Ambivalence: Representations of Kathoey in Thailand..... 31
Arthur Saniotis
"It's My Body and I'll Show It If I Want To": The Politics of
Language in the Autobiographies of Dorothy Dandridge,
Diahann Carroll, and Whoopi Goldberg......................................... 45
Kwakiutl L. Dreher
The New Journalism of the Sixties: Reevaluating Objective
Reality and Conventional Journalistic Practice................................ 55
Dennis Russell
When Fiction Becomes Reality: Authorial Voice in
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The Door in the Floor, Secret Window, and Swimming P o o l............ 73 I
Jan Whitt
Man(kind) VS. Mountain............................................................. 83
Armand E. Singer
Carriers of Popular Indian Culture: The Bauls of Bengal................. 9 1 1
Satish Sharma
Narrative Transformations: Jonathan Lethem's
Men and Cartoons Comic Books and Geek Culture....................... 101
William Petty
Book Reviews:
. The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia edited by Philip C. Ko lin
Reviewed by Felicia F. Campbell.........................................
117
The Vampire as Numinous Experience: Spiritual Journeys
with the Undead in British and American Literature by
Beth E. McDonald
Reviewed by Reika Lee........................................................ 118
Jacking in to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation
edited by Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty
Reviewed by Mindy Hutchings....................................
...1119
Appendices:
Appendix A, Risk as Pleasure Corrected Text................ ....
123
CONTRIBUTORS..........................................
135