A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A call to media scholars to begin open and productive conversation about how media are consumed, streamlined, archived, and pedagogically utilized.
Read moreAn examination of the way media convergence is shaping contemporary sports television.
Read moreWhen “nothing is happening” in Paranormal Activity 1 and 2, the empty room scenes as captured by static cameras in the Paranormal Activity franchise become suspenseful moments of audience reflexivity.
Read moreHamad examines the “runaway bride” trope and its dialectical relationship to femininity as depicted in the UK telefantasy series “Doctor Who.”
Read moreAn exploration of Asian American and Canadian representations in popular discourse and Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow.
Read moreThe once-breathlessly pleasurable practice of inserting sly intertextual references may be reaching the point of oversaturation as evidenced by the current season of Fox’s Glee.
Read moreDr. Tama Leaver investigates how David Fincher’s The Social Network reflects the nature and sociability of social network users as well as the communication tool’s complex creators.
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