A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Avi Santo takes a closer look at a few so-called industry outsiders who are leading the charge to change girls’ play culture and guide them toward future STEM fields.
Read morePlayboy Feminism? Hugh Hefner and The Girls Next Door
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
The Girls Next Door plays with significant ideological contradictions as it tries to address the prevailing popularity of the Playboy bunny image with a new generation of women while trying to remove any taint of sexual exploitation from its girls.
Comedy is a Woman in Trouble
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Questioning Comedy Central’s fixation on the male audience.
Super Freaks
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Whatever TV lacks in form it sometimes makes up for in content. TV may not look good, but it feels good.
Diary of a Political Tourist
by: Anna McCarthy / New York University
Must political documentaries always return to shopworn chiches?