A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Helen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of “post-death experience.”
Read moreMaggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive.
Read moreStefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck.
Read moreCara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas.
Read moreNicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze.
Read moreSarah E.S. Sinwell details how one art house cinema continues to adapt to the pandemic while serving its local community.
Read moreIsabel 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.
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