A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Bambi 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 moreDan Herbert explores the interaction of entertainment media retail sites with Latino/a population distribution over time in Elkhart, IN.
Read moreLouisa Stein highlights evolving fan practices by examining two aesthetic forms, the gifset and the fanmix, that have evolved within interfaces that emphasize abundant multiplicity and multidirectional flow.
Read moreManuel G. Avilés-Santiago explores the intersections of pageants, politics, and social media in light of a newsworthy 2015 Miss Universe and pageants’ cultivation of media spreadability via “YouTube moments.”
Read moreWendy Peters examines the “victim + bully = love” narrative — the representation and rationalization of internalized homophobia and externalized violence as a precursor to same-sex romance — in teen television shows like Pretty Little Liars, 90210, and Glee.
Read moreGarrett Castleberry compares the Gothic horror tropes deployed by Showtime’s Penny Dreadful with Hammer Horror films by performing a discursive visual analysis of the two sets of texts.
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