Popular Culture Review
Volume 19, no. 2
Summer 2008
From the Editor's D esk................................................................. 3
Flying and Smoking: Sensory Bodies, Identity and Circus Cigarette
Advertisements........................................................................... 5
Peta Tait
The President as Character: TheWest Wing's Josiah Bartlet and
Commander in Chief's MackenzieAllen........................................... 23
Elizabeth Skewes
The (Not So) Good Old Days: Race and Sexuality on Old-Style Talk
Shows....................................................................................... 37
Becca Cragin
Evil in the Worlds of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and Elizabeth
Kostova's The Historian (2005)................................................... 51
Joseph Ceccio
The Naturalized Redneck: PerformingCitizenshipThrough Patriotic
Submission................................................................................61
Matthew Ferrence
Gaelic Green and Gaelic Grey: IrishCasinos NotToday, Maybe
Tomorrow..................................................................................69
William Thompson
Roswell: Communicating Fact and Fiction
Joey Skidmore
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Becoming Texas: The Fusion of Regional Identities in San Angelo's
Popular Culture..........................................................................89
Linda Kornasky
BOOK REVIEWS...................................................................... 101
Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl by Steven Bach
Reviewed by Anthony J. Ferri, Ph.D...................................... 103
Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers Writing
Autobiography by Kwakiutl L. Dreher
Reviewed by Charlene Regester........................................... 104
CONTRIBUTORS
107