Reviews
From Charlie
Chan to Chan is Missing: A Review of Jun Xing’s Asian America Through
the Lens:
by Tracy Youells
Columns
"The Obligatory
Old Book Review" — J. K. Huysmans's A Rebours,
by Carlos Hernandez
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Martha,
Martha, Martha! Housewife or Homophobe?
by Nathan Tipton
Über-decorator Martha Stewart exploits homosexuals for the glory of heteronormative fabulousness.
Star-Spangled Business:
The Semiotics of Labor, Patriotism and Michael Jordan in a Nike Advertisement
by Jes Cortes
"TV sets across the nation air the world’s richest and most revered athlete playfully inspecting factory-made shoes, and in the real world daily reports rush in revealing deplorable working conditions."
The 90’s Minstrels
by Kheven Lee LaGrone
"For white suburbia, gangsta rap was entertainment, serving as the newest evolution in the minstrel or 'blackface' tradition."
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Jennie Too Many: Narrative, Gender, and AIDS in Kids
by Sean Desilets
The standard anti-AIDS assault on pleasure exposes itself in the ubiquitous hedonism of the film Kids.
Love in The X-Files
— the Mystical Journey
by Joe Bisz
It is difficult to see why Mulder and are so reluctant to approach
other; this secret is the greatest X-File of them all.
The Good
the Bad and the Anxious: Cultural Responses to Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer
by Christopher Neumann
An illumination into the fog of yuletide anxiety.
Genre
by Frank Episale
"A cursory exploration of, and introduction to, the concept of 'genre,'
its evolving meaning in the marketplace and its relationship to
identity politics and the nature of language."
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