Table of Contents
Editorial
Moving Popular Culture Studies Scholarship into the Future
Lynnea Chapman King and Anna CohenMiller
Guest Editorial
“καλὸν ἀνθρωπίνου βίου κάτοπτρον”: Popular Culture as a Pedagogical Lens on Greco-Roman Antiquity
Kirsten Day and Benjamin Haller
Part I: Epic Reconsiderations
Wounds that Will Not Heal: Heroism and Innocence in Shane and the Iliad
Carl A. Rubino
O Homer, Where Art Thou?: Teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey through Popular Culture
Mallory Young
The Odyssey and its Odyssey in Contemporary Texts: Re-visions in Star Trek, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and The Penelopiad
Mary Economou Bailey Green
Part II: Reception and Re-narrations
Theseus Loses his Way: Viktor Pelevin’s Helmet of Horror and the Old Labyrinth for the New World
Alison Traweek
300 and Fellini-Satyricon: Film Theory in the Tertiary Classroom
Leanne Glass
Part III: Gender in Cinematic Narratives
The Labyrinth of Memory: Iphigeneia, Simonides, and Classical Models of Architecture as Mind in Chris Nolan’s Inception (2010)
Benjamin Haller
Ovid and Mel Gibson: Power, Vulnerability, and What Women Want
Geoff Bakewell
Experiments in Love: Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and Henry de Vere Stacpoole’s The Blue Lagoon
Kirsten Day
Part IV: Reviews
Graphic Novel Review — The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need
Robert G. Weiner
Video Game Review — Final Fantasy XIV: Level Up Forever
Brian Cowlishaw
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