A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Dayna Chatman explores Black fans’ reactions to R&B influences heard and seen in K-pop music and videos.
Read moreAlfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.
Read moreMaría Elena Cepeda discusses how Selena Quintanilla’s legacy is constructed in WBUR Boston/Futuro Studios’ Anything for Selena podcast and Netflix’s Selena: The Series.
Read moreLando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph illuminate some of the ways critical Black audiences resist culture vultures, digital Blackface, and performative activism.
Read moreExploring the intertexuality of The CW’s Riverdale (2017–present), Caroline N. Bayne focuses on the way that the series exploits the tension between midcentury nostalgia and the darker teen pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s.
Read moreBy considering the visceral response Latinx viewers have to images of terror, Orquidea Morales argues that we can expand the generic boundaries of Latinx horror to include films that examine the violence of migration and borders.
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