A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Avi Santo takes a closer look at a few so-called industry outsiders who are leading the charge to change girls’ play culture and guide them toward future STEM fields.
Read moreIn part II of their “Wicked Games” series, Matthew Payne and Peter Alilunas look the controversies surrounding the video game industry in the early 1990s and the subsequent birth of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings.
Read moreWhitten Overby continues his explorations of the intersections of architecture, technology, and gender in AMC’s Mad Men, this time through the lenses of Futurism, car travel, and the sprawling Los Angeles cityscape.
Read moreCoco Zhou examines the role of the Magical Girl and the male gaze in anime programming typically targeted to young female audiences, such as Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura, and explores the economic implications of these programs and their intended audiences in Japan as well as the ways in which these programs appeal to male audiences.
Read moreKing Adkins calls attention to Mr. Robot’s aesthetic, thematic, philosophical, and moral filmic debts to The Matrix and The Third Man.
Read moreIn this post, Nicholas Sammond continues his discussion of teaching Disneyland as text. Using Lefebvre, he illustrates the value of space for discerning and analyzing textuality in the classroom.
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