María 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.
Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph illuminate some of the ways critical Black audiences resist culture vultures, digital Blackface, and performative activism.
Exploring 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.
By 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.
Peter Arne Johnson examines the broader industrial and sociopolitical reverberations of the recent market shortening of Game Stock stock by a community of retail investors from the subreddit r/wallstreetbets.
