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Classics and Contemporary Popular Culture [Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2014)] (Online only)

Editorial

Moving Popular Culture Studies Scholarship into the Future, Lynnea Chapman King and Anna S. 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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