A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Pixarvolt – Animation and Revolt
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
In contemporary animated feature films for kids, a genre I call “pixarvolt,” certain topics which would never ever appear in adult films are central to the success and emotional impact of the narrative.
Modern Love?
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
New York Times column “Modern Love” records the ups
and downs, the byroads and hidden paths of contemporary romance for urban, mostly white, mostly heterosexual men and women.
Children Playing in Hollywood
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
Let’s see how Little Children manages to sneak normativity into the plot as resolution for the problem of the community enforcement of …normativity!
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
At a time when Hollywood has very little use for women of a certain age, perhaps television is where women over 40 can go to find roles beyond the bitter mother-in-law, the predatory divorcee or the lonely spinster.
Sex, Love, Television – Part 1
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
What draws American viewers to Desperate Housewives, a show about infidelity, teenage promiscuity, scandal, secrecy, murder and deceit?
