From the Editor’s Desk
Welcome to the Summer 2010 issue of Popular Culture Review which is, I
think, one of the best ever. Diversity seems to be our middle name with articles
ranging over the centuries, around the world, and across the many areas of
popular culture studies.
We begin with Philip Kolin’s discovery of a new Tennessee Williams letter
and end with Joshua Mason’s examination of existential elements in Fight Club.
In between, Juan Martinez examines Jacques Tomeur’s I Walked with a Zombie,
Robert Stevenson’s Jane Eyre, and the problems and rewards of visible
obstacles, while Heather Momyer tackles Kill Bill. Bill Ceccio and Diana Reep
explore the new “popular Gospel” in The DaVinci Code, while Anthony Patricia
discusses Ann Rice’s shift from Popular Vampire to Popular Christ.
Dancing in seventeenth century Spanish theaters is Tania de Miguel
Magro’s foray into early Popular Culture, while John Walliss is as contemporary
as possible in his research of Warhammer 40,000 fanfiction. Finally, Mary
O’Donnell sees a reforming of Victorian ideology in detective fiction in Mary
Russell’s Bleak House: in essence, Dickens meets Laurie R. King.
PCR is a labor of love and as always my thanks go to Amie Norris and
Mindy Hutchings, my trusty Associate Editors, without whose dedication we
would never get to press. Amie not only helped bring forth the journal but
produced a baby during the summer rush. Thanks also to Laurens Tan for
another memorable cover.
We are a little late and I don’t want to delay your reading as we hurtle into
the fall semester, but do want to remind you to keep your calendars clear for our
23rd Annual Meeting in March which we know will be the best ever. For more
details, go to http:www.farwestpca.blogspot.com.
Felicia F. Campbell
Professor of English
Editor, Popular Culture Review
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http://www.farwestpca.blogspot.com