Editorial

With this issue we will have completed four years of operation and published 42 full-length articles and 8 shorter pieces (Afterpieces) in the pages of our journal. We started perhaps rather diffidently, sure about the significance of popular entertainments but unsure whether the scholarly community shared our enthusiasm. We can now confidently discard any vestigial remains of that diffidence as well-established and new scholars continue to supply us with the outcomes of their research. This issue exemplifies yet again the diversity and complexity of the field of popular entertainments.