A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
MTV’s Teen Mom deploys a straw man of the “Bad Mother,” akin to the Reagan-era welfare queen, to depict unwed, lower-class teen women in a negative light.
Read moreGerbner’s notion of “symbolic annihilation” frames this discussion of minority representation in mainstream U.S. television, wherein Del Rio notes the conspicuous omission of Filipinos from the televisual space.
Read moreLucas Hilderbrand considers how Mark Ronson’s new album reminisces about the glory days of 1980s postmodern pop.
Read moreThe “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” held in Washington, D.C., drew a crowd whose demographic makeup mirrored that of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, contrary to the anticipated Millennial presence touted by several media commentators.
Read moreA look at the puzzling cold opens of Breaking Bad.
Read more“Can it be that we are capable of seeing—with our vast technology and hyperstimulated imaginations—only what was once ourselves, only what we have survived?” Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives inspires us to think about our own lives.
Read moreThe “nobody knows anything” phrase is a smokescreen for an extensive and concentrated organization of advantage in the arena of commercial cultural enterprise.
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