Volume 50 Issue 4 2017 The Journal of Popular Culture Editor Ann E. Larabee Michigan State University Managing Editor Zack Kruse Editorial Assistants Cameron Clark Sean Guynes Book Review Editor Tricia Jenkins Texas Christian University Please visit the JPC Editorial Office at www.msu.edu/~tjpc Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The Journal of Popular Culture, the official journal of the Popular Culture Association, was founded in 1967 by Ray Browne. E D I T O R I A L A D V I S O RY B O A R D Thomas Aiello Brian Cogan Department of History Valdosta State University Department of Communication Arts and Sciences Molloy College, New York taiello@valdosta.edu bcogan@molloy.edu Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi Media and Communication Erasmus University, The Netherlands ahmed_k_al_rawi@yahoo.com Jose F. Colmeiro Spanish Department The University of Auckland j.colmeiro@auckland.ac.nz Aju Aravind Kirk Combe Department of Humanities and Social Science Indian School of Mines Denison University combe@denison.edu aaravind13@gmail.com Phillip Cunningham Lynn Bartholome Department of Media Studies Quinnipiac University Department of English and Philosophy Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York phillip.cunningham@quinnipiac.edu lbartholome@monroecc.edu Trish Cunningham Mathew J. Bartkowiak The Ohio State University Nelson-Jameson, Inc. cunningham.190@osu.edu m.bartkowiak@nelsonjameson.com Dennis Cutchins Bob Batchelor Department of English Brigham Young University Department of Communications Thiel College dennis_cutchins@byu.edu bbatchelor@thiel.edu Joseph J. Darowski Gerd Bayer Brigham Young University-Idaho Department of English University of Erlangen, Germany darowskij@byui.edu H. Louise Davis gerd.bayer@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de American Studies Program Miami University Peter Bischoff davishl3@muohio.edu Western Research Center, Muenster, Germany Guillaume de Syon gasw_ms@yahoo.com History Department Albright College Michael Blouin English and the Humanities Milligan College gdesyon@alb.edu MJBlouin@milligan.edu University of California Davis John Bratzel Pamela Demory phdemory@ucdavis.edu Dept. of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures Michigan State University Pamela Demory bratzel@msu.edu phdemory@ucdavis.edu University of California Davis Gregory C. Bray Kathryn Edney Digital Media and Journalism SUNY New Paltz Regis College brayg@newpaltz.edu Malcah Effron Claudia Bucciferro Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gonzaga University meffron@mit.edu katedney@hotmail.com bucciferro@gonzaga.edu Joseph J. Foy Gary Burns Associate Dean University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Communication Northern Illinois University joseph.foy@uwc.edu gburns@niu.edu Monroe Friedman Felicia F. Campbell Emeritus Professor of Psychology Eastern Michigan University Department of English University of Nevada, Las Vegas mfriedman@emich.edu fcampbell@ccmail.nevada.edu Lisa Funnell Adam Capitanio University of Oklahoma Independent Scholar lisa.m.funnell@gmail.com adam.capitanio@gmail.com Alma M. Garcia Roger Chapman Department of Sociology Santa Clara University Department of History Palm Beach Atlantic University roger__chapman@pba.edu Mike Chopra-Gant Department of Applied Social Sciences London Metropolitan University m.chopragant@londonmet.ac.uk M.J. Clarke Independent Scholar mijoclarke@yahoo.com agarcia@scu.edu Lincoln Geraghty School of Creative Arts, Film and Media University of Portsmouth lincoln.geraghty@port.ac.uk Mel Gibson Childhood Studies Northumbria University mel.gibson@unn.ac.uk Natalie Graham Michael Moordian Lupro California State University-Fullerton Portland State University ngraham@fullerton.edu lupro@psu.edu Joseph H. Hancock, II Nowell Marshall Westphal College of Media Arts and Design Drexel University Department of English Rider University jhh33@drexel.edu nmarshall@rider.edu E. Michael Harrington Camille McCutcheon Berklee College of Music Emh2625@gmail.com Librarian University of South Carolina, Upstate April Michelle Herndon cmccutcheon@uscupstate.edu Writing Center Director Winona State University Kevin M. Moist Penn State, Altoona AHerndon@winona.edu kmm104@psu.edu Linda J. Holland-Toll Marilyn Morgan University of Mount Olive University of MA-Boston lholland-toll@umo.edu Marilyn.Morgan@umb.edu Gary Hoppenstand Rikk Mulligan Department of English Michigan State University ACLS Public Fellow Program Officer for Scholarly Publishing Association of Research Libraries hoppens2@msu.edu Frederick J. Isaac Chair of Association of Jewish Libraries Convention rikk.mulligan@gmail.com fissac@gmail.com Department of English Western Michigan University Raja Jayaraman Department of Sociology University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Australia rajajayaraman@hotmail.com Rosemary Johnsen CAS/Liberal Arts Governors State University rjohnsen@govst.edu Jeff Johnson Independent Researcher phoboes2000@yahoo.com Michael Johnson Jr. Washington State University Mjohnson@wsu.edu C. Richard King Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies Washington State University crking@wsu.edu Yuya Kiuchi Department of Human Development and Family Studies Michigan State University kiuchiyu@msu.edu Susan Koppelman Independent Scholar huddis@msn.com Giselinde Kuipers Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands g.m.m.kuipers@uva.nl Yasue Kuwahara Department of Communication Northern Kentucky University kuwahara@nku.edu Darl Larsen Theatre and Media Arts Brigham Young University Christopher Nagle christopher.nagle@wmich.edu Sonja Narunsky-Laden Department of Communication University of Johannesburg, South Africa sonjan@uj.ac.za Ilana Nash Gender & Women’s Studies Western Michigan University ilana.nash@wmich.edu Robin Gray Nicks Department of English University of Tennessee rjgnicks@gmail.com Douglas A. Noverr Dept. of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Michigan State University noverr@msu.edu Susan Nuernberg English Department, Chancellor’s Assistant for Strategic Planning University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh nuernber@uwosh.edu Silvia Núñez-García Secretaria Academica Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte, UNAM, México nugar@servidor.unam.mx Jean O’Reilly Independent Scholar joreilly3@mindspring.com Marc C. Oxoby Core Humanities Program University of Nevada, Reno darl@byu.edu marco@unr.edu David J. Leonard Louis Palmer Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies Washington State University Department of English Castleton State College djl@wsu.edu louis.palmer@castleton.edu Donald E. Palumbo David Simmons Department of English East Carolina University Department of English, Media and Culture Northampton University palumbod@ecu.edu david.simmons@northampton.ac.uk Benjamin Phillips Phil Simpson Independent Scholar Provost, Eastern Florida State College simpsonp@easternflorida.edu benphillips07@yahoo.com Christopher Pittard Vasiliki Sirakouli University of Portsmouth, UK University of Athens christopher.pittard@port.ac.uk vsirak@music.uoa.gr Donnalyn Pompper Annelise Sklar Department of Strategic Communication Temple University Social Sciences and Humanities Library University of California, San Diego dpompper@temple.edu duchessanne@gmail.com Gönül Pultar Michael Spencer Cultural Studies Association, Turkey Independent Scholar gpultar@Kulturad.org mikespencerphd@gmail.com Laurence Raw Joy Sperling Department of English Baskent University, Turkey Denison University l_rawjalaurence@yahoo.com Jennifer L. Stevens Sue Richardson sperling@denison.edu Department of Film Studies University of North Carolina, Wilmington Department of American Studies and History Roger Williams University richardsongr@uncw.edu jstevens@rwu.edu Brendan Riley Julie Anne Taddeo Columbia College, Chicago briley@colum.edu Department of History University of Maryland Chadwick Roberts taddeo@mail.umd.edu University of North Carolina, Wilmington Lynne M. Thomas robertscl@uncw.edu Rare Books and Special Collections Founders Memorial Library Northern Illinois University Garyn Roberts Communications/English Northwestern Michigan College lmthomas@niu.edu garynroberts@yahoo.com Mel van Elteren Cheri Ross Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences Tilburg University, The Netherlands Humanities and American Studies Penn State, Harrisburg mel.vanelteren@uvt.nl clr5@psu.edu Jason Vest Frank Salamone College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences University of Guam Sociology Department Iona College japaves@yahoo.com fsalamone@iona.edu Karma Waltonen Lynn Sally University Writing Program University of California, Davis Fairfield University lsally@fairfield.edu kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu Claudia Schippert Huike Wen Department of Philosophy University of Central Florida Willamette University claudia.schippert@ucf.edu Fang-Chih Yang Tom Sellick hwen@willamette.edu Independent Scholar, Surrey, UK Department of Taiwanese Literature National Cheng Kung University tomsellick1987@gmail.com fcyang@mail.ncku.edu.tw August 2017 Volume 50 Number 4 Contents Editorial Celebrating Fifty Years of the Journal Ann Larabee 663 Articles Suiting up the Hero: Legacies of Medieval and Renaissance Armor and Identity in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins Grant Gearhart 665 Reconstructing the Patriotic Discourse in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: City of Life and Death and Cow Jing Yang 685 “Like Walking into a Movie”: Intermedial Relations between Theme Parks and Movies Florian Freitag 704 When Caretaking Goes Wrong: Maintenance, Management, and the Horrific Corporation in Stephen King’s The Shining Brandon Benevento 723 “When I Was a Kid, the Future Was Different”: Corporate Utopianism in Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland Steffen Hantke 743 Revisiting the Boulevard: The Gender & Sexual Politics of Michael Pressman’s Boulevard Nights José Navarro 761 This One Is Different Because It’s Ours: The Ordinary, The Extraordinary, and The Working-Class Artist in A Taste of Honey Laura K. Wallace 778 Using Cinema to Understand Character Engagement in a Television Series: The Truman Show as Case Study Fernando Canet 796 ‘Attendez la Crème!’: Food and Cultural Trauma in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained Fareed Ben-Youssef 814 Transnational Adaptation: Q & A, Slumdog Millionaire, and Aesthetic and Economic Relationships Between Bollywood and Hollywood Jonathan J. Cavallero 835 The Man with Two Faces: Stuttering Characters and Surprise Joseph P. Jordan 855 “Beep, Beep, Who Got the Keys to the Jeep?”: Missy’s Trick as (Un)Making Queer Nia O. Witherspoon 871 Book Reviews Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream. Matthew S. Rindge, ed. Reviewed by Margaret Weber 896 Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture. Catherine M. Roach. Reviewed by Sean A. Guynes 898 Tim Burton: Essays on the Films. Johnson Cheu, ed. Reviewed by Erik Mortensen 901 Reading From Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus. Jonathan A. Allan, ed. Reviewed by Andrew Kettler 902 Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice. Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen, eds. Reviewed by Jodie Noelle Mader 905 An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture. Steven E. Alford and Suzanne Ferriss, eds. Reviewed by Richard M. Mikulski 907 Disability and Popular Culture: Focusing Passion, Creating Community, and Expressing Defiance. Katie Ellis, ed. Reviewed by Martin J. Manning 909