Popular Culture Review: Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring 2018

Contents: From the Editor's Desk Felicia Campbell Into the Wild Paradox and the Merchandising Daniel Ferreras Savoye Sylvanas Windrunner of the World of Warcraft, Hillary Clinton, and the Rhetoric of Female Leadership Carol Poster A Supernatural Tale of Agency, Othering, and Oppression Tony Kemerly & Trisha Kemerly Essentialism and the Construction Gender and Race in Season 2 of Lifetime's UnREAL Seth Vanatta Children of the Grave: Visual Nuclear Rhetoric in Heavy Metal Music Heather Lusty Where Have All the Vampires Gone? An examination of Gothic horror in BBC's Luther Richard Logsdon "A Man Must Have a Code" A Contrast of Black and White Masculinity in The Wire Graeme Wilson The Trajectory of a Comic Celebrity's Career: Robin Williams Does Television Kathy Merlock Jackson The Blacksmith Todd Moffett Book Reviews Rediscovering the Pleasure Principle: Imaginology versus Critical Theory in Post-Trump Literary Studies Jarrett Keene Book Review of H. Peter Steeves' Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding: Phenomenological Aesthetics and the Life of Art Marc Armani Book Review of Retcon Game: Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America by Andrew J. Friedenthal Amy Green Book Review of Understanding Larry McMurtry by Steven Frye Michael Velez Dynamic International Networks of Print Culture: Multi-Disciplinary Scholarship on Fiction and Empire Heather Lusty