A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Sidney Garner reminisces on her hair care journey as a Black woman through Dr. Aria Halliday’s concept of Black women cultural producers in her recently published book “Buy Black.”
Read moreKatie Hoovestol examines Netflix’s branded YouTube account Still Watching Netflix as an extension of Netflix’s cross-platform ecosystem.
Read morePeter Arne Johnson theorizes how pure play streaming services like Netflix have discursively deployed audience affect and speculation to inflate their market valuations.
Read moreEmily McTiernan discusses how laid-off Peloton workers used LinkedIn to self-brand and gain employment.
Read moreHyun-jung Stephany Noh explores the inter-industrial relationship between Korean local webtoons and K-dramas amidst the growing demand for K-drama production in the SVOD era.
Read moreHannah Wold traces some of the ways in which the horror text Scream: The TV Series received reviews that precluded it from the distinction granted to the Scream film franchise, indicating that its intended audience and the MTV brand ensured that it was left behind in discourses of quality.
Read moreHelen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of “post-death experience.”
Read moreMaggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive.
Read moreStefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck.
Read moreCara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas.
Read moreNicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze.
Read moreSarah E.S. Sinwell details how one art house cinema continues to adapt to the pandemic while serving its local community.
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