A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Isabel Molina-Guzmán discusses how Bridgerton‘s escapist, colorblind narrative discursively produces a racial nostalgia that simultaneously erases unpleasant histories of racial conflict, generates pleasure in non-white audiences, and maintains white subjectivity.
Read moreIn the second part of her series focusing on Black Lives Matter television, Brandy Monk-Payton interrogates the reboot of The Wonder Years as a site for nostalgia and sentimentalism as constitutive of Black subjectivity.
Read moreBrandy Monk-Payton explores the shift from racial relevance to an active reckoning with race through the lens of Black Lives Matter television.
Read moreDayna Chatman discusses Black American fans’ experiences of the racially insensitive behavior in K-pop, with suggestions for what solidarity might look like in the genre’s industry and fan communities.
Read moreJas L. Moultrie and Ralina L. Joseph illustrate the power and limitations of players’ voices in the midst of branded corporate activism.
Read moreUsing Tim and Fred Williams’ musical reaction videos as a case study, María Elena Cepeda discusses racial and generational relations between audiences and content creators as potential drivers of change in production and marketing in the music industry.
Read moreThrough a close analysis of Gary Clark Jr.’s “This Land” and Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Susan McFarlane-Alvarez locates important negotiations of what constitutes belonging and country (western).
Read moreDaelena Tinnin examines the dearth of black female friendships on television, the paradox of visibility, and Insecure‘s liminal possibilities.
Read moreSusan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”
Read moreSusan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”
Read moreSusan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”
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