A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Odinak considers how, as the debate over reproductive autonomy rages on in a post-Roe world, television has responded with representations demonstrating how birth is violent, controlling reproductive bodies is cruel, and forcing people into giving birth is barbaric.
Read moreDr. Michael Socolow recounts how television coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ignited discussion about the accuracy of television reporting, in addition to raising questions about how viewers interpret TV news.
Read moreKara Carmack historicizes the counterhegemonic technical failures on Glenn O’Brien’s public access TV Party.
Read moreCatherine Martin lays out a historical trajectory of crime and policing on television.
Read moreCaroline N. Bayne takes a closer look at the women behind the iconic horror personas working in Southern U.S. television during the 1950s.
Read moreKit MacFarlane cross-references television archives to recreate and analyze the primetime schedule of New Year’s Eve 1959.
Read morePhoebe Bronstein examines how Bewitched reinforced exclusionary white feminism and how this exclusion continues to affect the modern women’s movement and marketable, consumerist feminism.
Read moreCharisse L’Pree examines the historical representation of women in the sitcom and traces the development of what she terms the “Single City Girl” archetype.
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