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