A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Philip Scepanski describes the effects of television’s engagement with 9/11 on our emotional responses to national trauma.
Read moreKathryn Hartzell discusses the failed European Super League and the influence of television rights and growing global audiences on football.
Read moreUsing professional wrestling as a case study to analyze unofficial broadcast distribution, Eleanor Patterson analyzes the role of tape trading and fan communities to the circulation of pro-wrestling media.
Read moreIn his final installment on television syndication, Taylor Cole Miller examines how particular first-run syndicated programs offered and embraced queerness.
Read moreJennifer Hessler discusses the place of Nielsen and comScore’s ratings panels in the digital age.
Read moreFinley Freibert intervenes with traditional interpolations of gay activism in the 1960s and 1970s to investigate media activism performed in the name of gay and democratic socialist liberation.
Read moreMark D. Pepper ponders the effects of Netflix’s algorithm on categorization, diversity, and truth.
Read moreThe second installment of his three-part series sees Taylor Miller consider the implications of edits made to syndicated TV programs on their textuality and reception.
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 moreIn Part Two of his Three Part series on HBO’s The Deuce, Matthew Tchepikova-Treon examines the role of disco within the context of class and late 1970s New York City.
Read moreShawna Kidman offers a timely response to this year’s Oscars, the Academy’s diversity and ratings problems, and how Black Panther complicates what we think is “Oscar worthy.”
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