A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
With the casting announcement of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, Shearon Roberts analyzes the recent history of race-swapping in Disney films.
Read moreCasey Walker explores how Disney is using synergy between its content library and its theme parks as it prepares to launch a new streaming service to compete with Netflix.
Read morePeter C. Kunze proposes greater consideration for theater within media studies, especially in an age of convergence and conglomeration.
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.
Read moreNicholas Sammond considers Disneyland as a text, engaging the amusement park as a textual (and intertextual) object and narrative in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, in order to expand notions of textuality and its study.
Read moreAn examination of social comportment within different cinema spaces and the role of audience behavior in shaping the moviegoing experience.
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