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MTV’s Teen Mom deploys a straw man of the “Bad Mother,” akin to the Reagan-era welfare queen, to depict unwed, lower-class teen women in a negative light.

Gerbner’s notion of “symbolic annihilation” frames this discussion of minority representation in mainstream U.S. television, wherein Del Rio notes the conspicuous omission of Filipinos from the televisual space.

Lucas Hilderbrand considers how Mark Ronson’s new album reminisces about the glory days of 1980s postmodern pop.

The “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” held in Washington, D.C., drew a crowd whose demographic makeup mirrored that of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, contrary to the anticipated Millennial presence touted by several media commentators.

A look at the puzzling cold opens of Breaking Bad.

“Can it be that we are capable of seeing—with our vast technology and hyperstimulated imaginations—only what was once ourselves, only what we have survived?” Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives inspires us to think about our own lives.

An argument for a more thorough understanding of the formal relationship between action spectacle and narrative as a distinctive yet neglected aspect of crime television.

In this essay, Ann Johnson looks at commonly “misunderstood” songs, the ways artists have made their songs amenable to misuse and their attempts to reassert control over such songs.