by Keidra Chaney A couple of things first: I didn’t so much read this book as I oohed and ahhed over it. Also, this isn’t so…
by Jordan Dinwiddie – Guest Writer They say the second effort is the hardest. Well, how about the eighth for Bryan Lee O’Malley? Bringing us…
by Raizel Liebler Debora Halbert’s The State of Copyright: the complex relationship of cultural creation in a globalized world is an excellent academic entry to…
by Raizel Liebler Youna Kim’s The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global (2013) is another excellent addition to the growing corpus of academic books on…
by Keidra Chaney Before I start this review, I will admit to a long-standing bias against dating books. Most of them seem to exist to…
By Keidra Chaney The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, an anthology of influential academic literature in the field of fan studies, is edited by Karen Hellekson…
By Kristin Bezio I recently picked up two collections of essays on gender and games compiled primarily by and for women. The first, From Barbie…
By Kristin Bezio Nick Yee, the mastermind behind the Daedalus Project, mixes pop culture and social psychology in The Proteus Paradox: How Online Games and…
by Raizel Liebler Yasue Kuwahara’s The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in Global Context (2014) is an excellent entry in the ever increasing corpus of…
by Keidra Chaney S. Alexander Reed and Phillip Sandifer are cultural scholars and childhood friends who share an appreciation of the band They Might Be…