Your Tumblr Makes Me Want To Study: Thoughts about the studyblr community Jacqueline Ryan Vickery / University of North Texas
A discussion about Tumblr as a discursive space for community building and learning.
Read moreA Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A discussion about Tumblr as a discursive space for community building and learning.
Read moreAn textual analysis of how Pretty Little Liars challenges early Gothic tropes of female passivity and victimization.
Read moreA look into TV shows with a “Strong Female Lead” where the author argues that each woman remains “strong” in terms of her abilities, but their access to knowledge and subsequent ability to act becomes extremely limited.
Read moreAn investigation of Asian masculinities in Little Fish and Japanese Story.
Read moreSometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
The Indian majority’s non-response to the Gere-Shetty kiss indicates reinforces the notion that diverse cultures in India have known how to live with each other for centuries
Queering Justin
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?
“Big Man on Campus Ladies”
by: Walter Metz / Montana State University
Metz discusses the Oxygen TV show Campus Ladies and the so-called outrageous collegiate lives, the politicization of academia and the “vitriol reserved at this moment of American culture for professors.”
Comedy is a Woman in Trouble
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Questioning Comedy Central’s fixation on the male audience.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Boy: Transgeneration‘s Meditation on the “Real”
by: Shana Agid / Sarah Lawrence College
Thoughts on Transgeneration and TV’s quest to create a viable “normal” transgender person.