Popular Culture Review Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter 2015 | Page 5

Popular Culture Review Volume 26, no. 1 Winter 2015 From the Editor’s D e sk.................................................................................................................3 “another old Buddhist monastery thing": The Misguided Zen of Fight Club............................. 5 Todd Giles Carrying the Whole Black Race: Woody Strode, John Ford, and the Trials of Blackness ...18 Frank E. Dobson Seeking Grace: The Tempest, Race Relations, and American Popular C ulture................... 32 Michelle Villanueva Richard Matheson and the Twilight Fantastic........................................................................... 45 Daniel Ferreras Savoye Postmodern Pastiche: Following the Path of Productive Parody on Sesame S tree t.............66 Marci Mazzarotto The Last of the Crass: Understanding the Shifting Values of Punk Subculture.................... 77 Chase D. Cartwright Digitizing and Downloading Culture: Museums in the Age of Multimedia.............................. 90 Heather Lusty The American Ebola “Crisis” Did Not Take Place: A Baudrillardian Interpretation of a Manufactured Pseudo-Event.................................................................................................... 102 Keith Moser l