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 moreIn his final installment on television syndication, Taylor Cole Miller examines how particular first-run syndicated programs offered and embraced queerness.
Read moreAnalyzing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Helen Morgan-Parmett discusses the intersections of gender and urban crisis in nostalgic discourses surrounding New York’s past, present, and future.
Read moreLisa Funnell asserts that the casting of a Black woman as 007 in the next James Bond installment reveals growing anxieties about minorities claiming more institutional and economic power.
Read moreChristina M. Knopf examines the industrial trajectory of DC Comics Bombshells, an all-female comic series that uses wartime premises to assert shifting gender roles and sexualities and foreground women in civic life and public spaces.
Read moreKathy Cacace considers where and how women’s voices are used within Major League Baseball broadcasts.
Read moreDaelena Tinnin examines the dearth of black female friendships on television, the paradox of visibility, and Insecure‘s liminal possibilities.
Read moreAlexander Cho calls attention to the Game of Thrones conclusion too many of us overlooked: a vision of queer coalition politics.
Read moreAlison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.
Kelly Kessler considers Playing House and the considerable labor performed by its creator/stars Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Claire to nurture the program’s content, advertisers, and fans.
Read moreKathy Cacace looks at the post-feminist politics of Megyn Kelly’s morning show and how this, as well as certain industrial factors, colors its coverage of the #MeToo movement.
Read moreAshlynn d’Harcourt explores the ways in which comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher stealthily center themselves on screen and in doing so, reposition their non-normative identities as conventional, further normalizing their subversiveness.
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