A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Stephanie Melissa Perez explores how On My Block’s Monse experiences her own objectification and challenges stereotypes of ingenues and Black and Latinx girls.
Read moreExploring the intertexuality of The CW’s Riverdale (2017–present), Caroline N. Bayne focuses on the way that the series exploits the tension between midcentury nostalgia and the darker teen pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s.
Read moreWendy Peters explores the gendered boundaries of straight, closeted, and gay characters on 90210 and Glee.
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 moreWendy Peters examines “post-” political representations — post-racial, post-closet — and the ways in which they erase the realities of racism, homophobia, and normative privilege from the teen televisual landscape.
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