A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Bambi Haggins considers how the “shady” protagonists, Olivia, Annalise, and Cookie, ambivalently challenge previous “Super Negro” televisual representation strategies.
Read moreBambi Haggins compares and contextualizes Scandal‘s Olivia Pope to Julia‘s titular character played by Diahann Carroll to investigate the complicated ways Black exemplarism informs the televisual construction of these women and Blacks on television more generally.
Read moreBambi Haggins investigates the fall of Bill Cosby and what this means for the Black community, both for those raised on his wholesome, uplifting image and millennials, who may only come to know him as a hypocritical sexual predator.
Read moreAn analysis and tribute to the late great Bernie Mac.
Read moreLate-night musings on the last of the original kings of comedy.
Read moreBambi Haggins and Anna Jonsson / University of Michigan
Musings on the nature of TV fandom.
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Further exploration of the strange appeal and relatability of the serial-killer sociopath hero of Dexter.
An analysis of the appeal of the eponymous anti-hero in Showtime’s black comedy/crime drama “Dexter.”
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