Popular Culture Review Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2007 | Page 132

Popular Culture Review
Volume 18, No. 2
Summer 2007
From the Editor's Desk................................................................... 3
The Monster at the End of This Essay .
H. Peter Steeves
Thinking Things Through: A Meditation on H. Peter Steeves's
The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the
Return to the Everyday.............................................................
Dennis Rohatyn
What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander:
Interpreting Marge Piercy's He, She and It....................................
Brook Brayman
The Subversive Undercurrent to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends:
Blooregard Q. Kazoo Decontextualizes American Popular Culture......
Amy M. Green
Parks and Wreck: Amusement and Anxiety at
Turn-of-the-Century Coney Island...............................................
Chris Kamberbeek
"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night":
The IWW's Lost Legacy in American Popular Culture.
Ron Briley
Theremin Blind .
Joey Skidmore
Perpetuating "The Big Lie": Subversive Feminism in
Stephen Sommers's Horror/Actlon Films..................................
John R. Craig
Telling Stories, Saving Families: Media's Concern with
Modernization as a Challenge to Traditional Chinese Family Values.
Shaorong Huang
Pleasing the Queen but Preserving Our Past:
Cheshire and Lincolnshire Attempt to Continue Their
Cycle Plays and Satisfy Elizabeth's Injunctions........................... .
James H. Forse
BOOK REVIEWS..................................................................
CONTRIBUTORS........................................................................119

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