A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Amanda C. Cote challenges the idea that women in gaming is a new trend, exploring how a continual surprise at women’s presence in gaming communities undermines their historical contributions in the field.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso explores the dewy aesthetics and commodity feminism of Glossier, a makeup, media, and lifestyle brand.
Read moreStephanie Brown explores the ways in which entrenched taste cultures and gendered hierarchies led critics to dismiss and disparage Oxygen’s docu-drama Funny Girls.
Read moreJane Feuer looks back on what The Mary Tyler Moore Show meant to her as a college student and then as a television scholar.
Read moreAlexis Carreiro explores Ghostbusters‘s (2016) deployment of a queef joke in relation to the gendered history of fart jokes and the feminist implications of and social strictures against women making noise, both bodily and politically.
Read moreIn this column for the Radio Preservation Task Force with the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress Special Issue, Christine Ehrick examines gendered soundspaces in the history of radio in South America.
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