A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Where the Boys Are: Postfeminism and the New Single Man
By: Diane Negra / Brown University
In films such as Wedding Crashers and Failure to Launch, the emergent “problem” single man offers an opportunity to think about the nature and function of postfeminist masculinities in current popular culture.
Introducing Television
By: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
The key to any television program’s themes, characters and stylistic characteristics are often mapped out within the first few moments of every episode, in the introductory sequence.
À la carte Culture
By: John McMurria / DePaul University
What are the cultural repercussions of an à la carte cable? And does anyone in the FCC care?
(TV)antipathy: A Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Television Hating, Part One
By: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Part One of Two–An evolving commentary on the mind-numbing role of TV in individual and social life.
Food for Thought
By: Dana Polan / New York University
The sushi’s on us: How The Sopranos is “assailing the very demographic that makes up its preferred fan base,” via our stomachs.
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Last Screen on Earth
By: Dan Leopard / University of Southern California
How photographs connect us with the imagined consciousness of the photographer.