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Abstract: Academics and film/book critics who have evaluated Ready Player One have often done so negatively, considering it either a gauche panoply of nerdy pop culture references or treating it as an androcentric, cookie cutter tale (Baker-Whitelaw 2018; Condis 2016; Grady 2018; Ha 2018; Hertz 2018; Meslow 2018; Narcisse 2018; Rubin 2018). While Ready Player One does indeed operate in both of these registers (with the clichéd androcentrism far more pronounced in Steven Spielberg's iteration of the story than in Ernest Cline's original book version), critics have failed to recognize the complicated and provocative elements of the narrative. Ready Player One is best understood as a dystopian/utopian myth speculating about the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 2016, the award-winning, eyebrow-raising, New York Times-bestselling comics creator Chester Brown1 released something unexpected, even from him. Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus is a graphic novel dedicated to proving that Jesus was both the son of a prostitute and an advocate, like Brown, for prostitution. While the project was understandably perceived as an invitation to controversy,2 Brown insisted that the book simply represented his desire to be a good Christian and to clarify what the god of the Bible really wants from people (Brown 2016, 185–86). To this end, Mary Wept presents selected Bible stories, reworked and generously supplemented with carefully selected and framed Religious Studies scholarship.The ... Read More PubDate: 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Civilization series of computer games, first released in 1991 and as of 2020 in its sixth iteration, is one of the most popular and influential series in the history of computer gaming. As of 2016, the game's twenty-fifth anniversary and the last time that its publisher released comprehensive statistics, the game had sold over thirty-three million copies and been released in sixty-six versions on different platforms. Media analysist have estimated, based on gameplay data, that players have collectively spent over a billion hours playing the game (Takahashi 2016a).The game tasks the player—either individually vs. computer opponents, or simultaneously against other players—to create and manage a civilization from ... Read More PubDate: 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the aftermath of the 18 November 1978 mass murders/suicides that ended the lives of more than 900 Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, American and Guyanese authorities inventoried the Temple commune's possessions. One inventory created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation enumerates an unexplored dimension of Jonestown life: "267 videocassettes" and an unspecified number of "16 and 18 millimeter films" shown or produced in the commune (Federal Bureau of Investigation 1979, 1). Although seemingly out of place amid Jonestown's farming equipment, bunkhouses, and medical supplies, these videocassettes and film reels appear in Temple leader Jim Jones's (1931–1978) Guyanese addresses as tools of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From the fight over the addition of God to the Pledge of Allegiance to religious satire on late night television, Anthony Hatcher argues in Religion and Media in America that American media, popular culture, and Christianity are inextricably linked by their history, development, and mutual impact on one another. While the book's title and introduction promise a history and examination of the deep ties between American media and religion, the book discusses a range of cultural artifacts and focuses solely on Christianity.Hatcher reviews the relationship between Christianity and American culture throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in three sections: Civil Religion, Religion and Entertainment, and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This excellent cultural history of the special evolving relationship between the arts in the US and Israel, including music, theatre, dance, film, literature, and television is a tour de force. It shows how the role of artists' relationships to Israel has influenced how Americans often perceive Israel. These intertwined cultural histories of the US and Israel have shaped one another and destined Israel's image. Books, films, TV, and music have played a significant role in forming American public views of Israel by depictions with subthemes of socialism, imperialism, racial justice, and Christian missionary efforts.A strength of the book is that Goldman, in the process of writing an outstanding cultural history ... Read More PubDate: 2022-02-18T00:00:00-05:00
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