A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
In this column, Rogerson offers a textual and industrial analysis of the self-reflexive Disney+/Pixar series Dream Productions and the animation unit’s short-lived approach to streaming series.
Read moreMihaela Mihailova brings attention to the diversity problem in animation—both on screen and in the industry—and examines a crop of contemporary programs responding to the call.
Read moreAnthony P. McIntyre explores the affective and power dynamics of cuteness in an uncertain political climate.
Read moreNicholas Sammond considers Disneyland as a text, engaging the amusement park as a textual (and intertextual) object and narrative in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, in order to expand notions of textuality and its study.
Read moreA psychoanalytic look into Archer.
Read moreIndigeneity for Life: Bro’town and Its Stereotypes
by: Ilana Gershon / Indiana University
The writers of Bro’town insist on a distinction between stereotypes used to reinforce historically and economically grounded inequalities and stereotypes used to indicate differences without consequences.