A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kathleen Loock compares definitive Christmas classics It’s a Wonderful Life and Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel to contemporary holiday movie releases from Netflix, exploring how the streaming service is using the niche to create Christmas movies for a global audience.
Read moreThe Rocky Horror Picture Show has been the object of ongoing cultural fascination and criticism for its portrayal of transgender stereotypes. Cáel M. Keegan questions whether this “bad object” is redeemable in this exploration of the standards of representation in the transgender media archive.
Read moreAnalyzing recent Congressional testimony of social media and internet content firms, Sarah T. Roberts reveals the expanding “soft power” reach of Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996.
Read moreBrian Fauteux takes readers through his experience participating in Canada’s copyright review process. The author particularly highlights how the current state of the market allows for large companies to have a great deal of control over artists.
Read moreAnalyzing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Helen Morgan-Parmett discusses the intersections of gender and urban crisis in nostalgic discourses surrounding New York’s past, present, and future.
Read moreDeborah L. Jaramillo contemplates television studies’ limited analysis of TV news and the importance of examining such texts as a genre.
Read moreFinley Freibert reveals the challenges of accessing public records and telling the history of gay, nontheatrical film distributor, John Samuel Bridges, in 1960s San Francisco.
Read moreThrough a close reading of Malick’s Tree of Life, Travis Warren Cooper offers up a comparative analysis of architectural style found in Hollywood films.
Read moreMiranda Brady explores the Good Mother/Bad Mother binary in the Loughlin/Huffman college admissions scandal and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician.
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