Fatima Qaraan
PhD Candidate
York University
Toronto, Ontario
Turzi, Mariano. The International Politics of Superheroes. 2022. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield. Continue Reading →
Alt Dialogue
RSS feed for this sectionAlt Dialogue is a companion series to Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal focused on the intersection of popular culture and pedagogy. Alt Dialogue includes Musings, reviews, poetry, and other related content.
Game Review: Hogwarts Legacy as an Exemplar of Immersive Fantasy
Mayank Kejriwal
USC Information Sciences Institute
Marina del Rey, California, USA
kejriwal@isi.edu
Abstract
Among the most successful series in fantasy literature the Harry Potter books have been followed by similarly successful movies, merchandise, and theme park attractions. Continue Reading →
Review of the book, Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media by John Stephens & Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Paula Thomas
Rowan University
New Jersey, USA
thomaspm@rowan.edu
Thomas, P. (2023). [Review of the book, Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media by John Stephens & Vivian Yenika-Agbaw]. University Press of Mississippi. Continue Reading →
Book Review of Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library
Janet Brennan Croft
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa
janet.croft@uni.edu
Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library. Edited by Melissa Edmiston Johnson, Thomas C. Weeks, and Jennifer Putnam Davis. Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. 9781538159408. $112.99 hardback, $55.00 paperback. Continue Reading →
Book Review of Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11, by Glen Donnar
Sellers Johnson
Independent Scholar
Wilmington, NC
msellers1923@gmail.com
Donnar, G. (2020) Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11. University Press of Mississippi. 248 pages, Paperback, $30.48. Continue Reading →
The Future Is Scary at Times: A Review of Ernest Cline’s Sci-Fi Novel “Armada”
Sayan Chattopadhyay
Adamas Universit
Kolkata, India
sayanphd11@gmail.com
Cline, E. (2015). Armada. Crown Publishing Group. 368 pages, Paperback, $23.00 Continue Reading →
Book Review: Animation in the Middle East: Practice and Aesthetics from Baghdad to Casablanca edited by Stefanie Van de Peer
Jingyi Zhang
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, USA
jz66666@uga.edu
Van de Peer, Stefanie, ed. Animation in the Middle East: Practice and Aesthetics from Baghdad to Casablanca. I.B. Tauris, 2017. 318 pp., ISBN: 978 1 78453 326 7, $87.44 (pbk). Continue Reading →
Book Review of Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules by Patricia Field
Catherine Reagan Palmore-King
Richmond, VA, USA
catie-reagan_palmor1@alumni.baylor.edu
Field, P. (2023). Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules. Dey Street Books. 272 pages, Hardcover, $35.00. Continue Reading →
Review of Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities
Dr. Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology
Cobleskill, New York, U.S.A
MacLeoDC@cobleskill.edu
Auerbach, David B. (2023). Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities. PublicAffairs. 352 pages, $27.00 Continue Reading →
Review of A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet
Emily R. Gerace
New York University
New York, New York, USA
erg395@nyu.edu
White, E. J. (2020). A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet. Stanford University Press, 157 pages, $14.00, paperback, ISBN: 9781503604636 Continue Reading →
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