Popular Culture Review
Volume 17, no. 2
Winter/Summer 2006
From the Editor's D esk...............................................................3
Pornumentaries and Sexploitation: The Cultural Signs of S ex ........... 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 The Door in the
Floor, Secret Window, and Swimming P o o l....................................73
Jan Whitt
Man(kind) VS. M ountain............................................................. 83
Armand E. Singer
Carriers of Popular Indian Culture: The Bauls of Bengal................. 91
Satish Sharma
Narrative Transformations: JonathanLethem's Men and Cartoons
Comic Books and Geek Culture................................................. 101
William Petty
Book Reviews:
The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia edited by Philip C. Kolin
Reviewed by Felicia F. Cam pbell........................................... 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............................................. 119