Popular Culture Review
Volume 25, no. 1
Winter 2014
From the Editor's D esk..................................................... 3
The 1988 Show ............................................................... 5
H. Peter Steeves
"Do We Look Like We Need Your Help?" Techno-Orientalism
in the X-Men Film Franchise.............................................27
Julian Cha
The Case of the Dying Kimono: Kimono Revival and Fusion
in the United States....................................................... 39
Denise Kawasaki
Finding Out Humanity in Paranormal Literature................. 51
Maria Rankin-Brown
Harry Potter and The Castle of Otranto-. J. K. Rowling,
Hogwarts, and the Eighteenth-Century Gothic...................65
Garland D Beasley
Shady Beasts: Animal Transgression and Identity in
Byron, Woody Allen, and Eminem....................................83
Chase Pieiak
Popular Culture and National Identity in the Twenty-First
Century....................................................................... 97
Heather Lusty
The Ever Expanding Universe of Doctor Who: Narrative,
Integrity, and Globalization...........................................107
Alesa Gawlic
The Age of Innocence: A Case Study of Remediation....... 123
Linda A. Robinson
BOOK REVIEWS
Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music
Genre, by Ed Hector
Reviewed by Vincent Perez............................... 139
Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture,
by Larry Gragg
Reviewed by John M a y ...................................... 141
CONTRIBUTORS......................................................... 143