Popular Culture Review: Volume 29, Number 2, Summer 2018

Contents H. Peter Steeves, Space Race Amy Green, “Here You Are at Last, in a Ruined and Drowning World’: The Dishonored Series as Environmental and Social Commentary Max J. Skidmore, Black Belt and Blue Water: The Vigorous Lives and Presidencies of Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Patricia M. Kirtley and William M. Kirtley, When in Rome Caesars Palace: The First Themed Casino in Las Vegas Maureen Salsitz, Seasonal Ethnic Celebrations at Disney California Adventure from 2012 through 2017 Ian Boucher, Casting a Wider Lasso: An Analysis of the Cultural Dismissal of Wonder Woman Through Her 1975-1979 Television Series Luc Gugleimi, Written Text to Oral Presentation Chris Williams, Why Mario Works: Super Mario as Transformative Icon for the Working Class Lorna Gibb, Defining a Life Book Reviews Blasian Invasion: Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series) by Myra S. Washington Kim Idol Epistrophies Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards James Altman