A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
In the second part of their series, Miranda Banks and Kristin Lieb explore how the Lifetime Television Network is furthering its mission to support gender parity and inclusivity behind the lens.
Read moreMiranda Banks and Kristin Lieb map how The Lifetime Television Network has cultivated an increasingly inclusive and compelling model of media made by and for diverse women.
Read moreBriana Barner explores the controversial digital commercial published by hair care company Shea Moisture, and the immediate backlash it received.
Read morePhoebe Bronstein discusses television’s pedagogical potential for discussing race, from Harry Belefonte’s canceled Revlon specials to the current ABC sitcom black-ish.
Read moreRooplai Mukherjee explores how post-truth/post-fact political scripts are contested by empirical and racial counter-knowledges of the marginalized public spheres that they simultaneously attempt to silence.
Read moreIn this article, Caetlin Benson-Allott focuses on the racist backlash to incidents of violence surrounding the release of Boyz N the Hood and other films such as New Jack City and Do The Right Thing
Read moreSuzanne Enzerink looks at Sikhtoons and other popular culture challenges to Muslim and Muslim-perceived stereotypes.
Read morePhoebe Bronstein explores the representation of Southern law enforcement around Andy Griffith in the “Danny Meets Andy” episode of Make Room for Daddy, exploring how the show navigated national and regional discourses and anxieties of the police during the Civil Rights Movement.
Read moreAvi Santo examines the representational and rhetorical strategies used by toy companies to produce dolls for African American girls, which emphasize self-love and a broadening of traditional beauty categories to overcome internalized racism, and compares these with the past production and marketing of Black dolls.
Bambi Haggins considers how the “shady” protagonists, Olivia, Annalise, and Cookie, ambivalently challenge previous “Super Negro” televisual representation strategies.
Read moreBambi Haggins compares and contextualizes Scandal‘s Olivia Pope to Julia‘s titular character played by Diahann Carroll to investigate the complicated ways Black exemplarism informs the televisual construction of these women and Blacks on television more generally.
Read moreWhitten Overby argues that the modern architectural spaces and sets in AMC’s Mad Men assert white, patriarchal ideologies that challenge feminist readings of the show and illustrate the show’s shortcomings in exploring issues of racial discrimination.
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