The Cultural and Critical Studies section of the proceedings contains the following 10 selected papers: "Sex Noise Makes Macho Magazines Both Teasing and Tedious" (Jacqueline Lambiase and Tom Reichert); "The Buccaneer as Cultural Metaphor: Pirate Mythology in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals" (Janice Hume); "Looking the Part: U.S. Anchorwomen as 'Other'" (Tracy Briggs Jensen and Elizabeth Blanks Hindman); "'Don't Want No Short People 'Round Here': Disrupting Heterosexual Ideology in the Comic Narratives of 'Ally McBeal'" (Brenda Cooper and Edward C. Pease); "Communicating A Re-Discovered Cultural Identity through the Ethnic Museum: The Japanese American National Museum" (Joy Y. Nishie); "Arab-Americans in a Nation's Imagined Community: How News Constructed Arab-American Reactions to the Gulf War" (Dina Gavrilos); "Reagan-Era Hollywood" (Chris Jordan); "Media Literacy and the Alternative Media: A Comparison of KAZI and KNLE Alternative Radio Stations in Austin" (InCheol Min); "My Grandmother's Black-Market Birth Control: 'Subjugated Knowledges' in the History of Contraceptive Discourse" (Jane Marcellus); and "Local Culture in Global Media: Excavating Colonial and Material Discourses in the 'National Geographic'" (Radhika Parameswaran). (RS)