Popular Culture Review Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2007 | Page 5

Popular Culture Review Volume 18, no. 2 Summer 2007 From the Editor's D esk................................................................. 3 The Monster at the End of This Essay..............................................5 H. Peter Steeves Thinking Things Through: A Meditation on H. Peter Steeves's The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday................................................................................... 19 Dennis Rohatyn What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander: Interpreting Marge Piercy's He, She and I t ............................................................... 29 Brook Brayman The Subversive Undercurrent to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Blooregard Q. Kazoo Decontextualizes American Popular Culture.... 37 Amy M. Green Parks and Wreck: Amusement and Anxiety at Turn-of-the-Century Coney Island............................................................................. 49 Chris Kamberbeek "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night": The IWW's Lost Legacy in American Popular Culture............................................................ 55 Ron Briley Theremin Blind.......................................................................... 69 Joey Skidmore Perpetuating "The Big Lie": Subversive Feminism in Stephen Sommers's Horror/Action Films.................................................... 79 John R. Craig Telling Stories, Saving Families: Media's Concern with Modernization as a Challenge to Traditional Chinese Family Values....................... 87 Shaorong Huang Pleasing the Queen but Preserving Our Past: Cheshire and Lincolnshire Attempt to Continue Their Cycle Plays and Satisfy Elizabeth's Injunctions............................................................................... 99 James H. Forse BOOK REVIEWS...................................................................... I l l CONTRIBUTORS..................................................................... 119