Our book recommendation of the month is George Lipsitz’s Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. The book is a collection of essays on American popular culture spans from popular music to television comedies, delving into popular narratives with...
On February 7, 2020 Netflix launched the series Locke&Key, an adaptation of author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic book series. Composed by six miniseries of six issues each, Locke&Key was published between 2008 and 2013 by IDW Publishing;...
Our book recommendation of the month is Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, a critical analysis of cultural attitudes toward reality and its reproduction, and how the American public tends to find more enjoyable unrealistic, fabricated spectacles than facts. Published in...
Download PDF version I first became aware of the debate provoked by the launch of Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt—and the editorial marketing machine behind it—thanks to social media. In spite of my academic research revolving around the representation of the...
For our first book of the month recommendation, I picked one of my favorite interdisciplinary essays on the American West as a fundamental pivot in the shaping of American history and national image. Kicking off with the origins of the...
Download PDF version In 2015, the first chapter of the comic series Barrier—by writer Brian K. Vaughan, artist Marcos Martín, and colorist Muntsa Vicente—was published on the DRM-free digital comics platform Panel Syndicate; in 2018 Image Comics picked it up...
Getting prepared to begin a new year, as chief editor I’m thrilled to launch the first entry of this blog. In December 2019, PopMeC was born as an academic space where any scholar—and yet, in particular, PhD candidates and postdocs...
