The editors of the Popular Culture Studies Journal are happy to announce the release of Vol. 7 No. 1 that features editorials on “why popular culture matters,” seven original…… Read more “Why Popular Culture Matters (PCSJ 7/1)”
On Representing Our Subjects/Participants/Informants/People
One final old reflection to share, that appears more questions than answers, but, as with the previous one, shows me wrestling with how do to research in…… Read more “On Representing Our Subjects/Participants/Informants/People”
Pop Culture Pilgrimage
Last year, as part of our trip to Prague and Vienna, Chris and I visited movie shooting locations for some of our favorite films and started the…… Read more “Pop Culture Pilgrimage”
On Becoming Inter-Multi-Disciplinary
Here is another great example of looking back to your older writings to find out where your foundation, your very scholarly identity, emerged, and how it has…… Read more “On Becoming Inter-Multi-Disciplinary”
Betty Boop and Hentai Studies
This episode on Betty Boop is our final episode of the season, and one of my favorites because I get to talk about hentai, one of my…… Read more “Betty Boop and Hentai Studies”
On Studying the Other
Sometimes it is very useful to go back, find those old writings, and revisit them to see the trajectory of your thoughts, and how much they have…… Read more “On Studying the Other”
Discussing Weird Al’s Staying Power
In a first, the forty-ninth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast finds friend of the podcast Noelle Lynn Blood joining Christopher Olson and I to discuss…… Read more “Discussing Weird Al’s Staying Power”
Call for PWSA’s Inaugural Symposium
Originally posted on Professional Wrestling Studies Association:
The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s inaugural PWSA Symposium: WrestlePosium I. This virtual symposium will happen…
CFP: Professional Wrestling Studies Journal
Originally posted on Professional Wrestling Studies Association:
The Professional Wresting Studies Association invites submissions for the inaugural issue of the Professional Wrestling Studies Journal, an open-access, peer-reviewed…
The Multiplicity of “Pop”
To start with, I’m not even sure I would continue to call popular cultural studies the study of the culture of the working class, and my reluctance to do so underlies my entire argument about what is the current status of the mass and the pop. The culture studies of the 1970s, with its focus on the working class, is not truly adequate to explain the ways in which culture is experienced and produced in modern American society.
San Diego Comic Con
In a first, the forty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast finds friend of the podcast Joan Miller (@a_wild_acafan) joining Christopher Olson and myself to discuss…… Read more “San Diego Comic Con”
