The Journal of Popular Culture

The official publication of the Popular Culture Association

Edited by:
Gary C. Hoppenstand

The popular culture movement was founded on the principle that the perspectives and experiences of common folk offer compelling insights into the social world.  The fabric of human social life is not merely the art deemed worthy to hang in museums, the books that have won literary prizes or been named "classics," or the religious and social ceremonies carried out by societies' elite.  The Journal of Popular Culture continues to break down the barriers between so-called "low" and "high" culture and focuses on filling in the gaps that a neglect of popular culture has left in our understanding of the workings of society.

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TopHighlights

Discourses of Sexual Morality in Sex and the City and Queer as Folk
Janet M. Cramer

Passing and Posing: The Japanese American Body in the Detective Fiction of Sujata Massey and Dale Furutani
Marla Harris

"Do You Love Mother, Norman?": Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Metalious's Peyton Place as Sources for Robert Bloch's Psycho
John A. McDermott

Children's Literature Goes to War: Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman, Munro Leaf, and the Private SNAFU Films (1943-46)
Philip Nel

The Influence of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang: Repositioning the Ned Kelly Narrative in Australian Popular Culture
Nathanael O'Reilly