A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Sander Hölsgens and Paul O’Connor locate the persistent presence of failure within the evolution of skateboarding videos.
Read moreDafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.
Read moreJennifer M. Kang compares Quibi and Kakao TV to reconsider notions of failure on mobile streaming platforms.
Read moreLisa Lin considers how programs that were deemed to be market failures can be viewed through different lenses of success.
Read moreRuben Vandenplas tackles highbrow and lowbrow cultural tastes, arguing that a user’s media repertoire is deserving of a quantitative-qualitative study.
Read moreIsabelle Williams grapples with the manifestation of failure in the video game Getting Over It by dissecting movement of the player’s body in several key moments of the game.
Read moreNicole Erin Morse challenges the common understanding of Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015) as films that construct a female gaze by examining how the films establish a male homosocial gaze.
Read moreCara Dickason explores the relationship between women’s television and streaming services through the Netflix series, You.
Read moreSarah E. S. Sinwell gives an account of how one art house cinema, the Salt Lake Film Society, managed through the pandemic.
Read moreMaggie Hennefeld explores how, as global crises proliferate, the boundaries of the comedy genre begin to break down while their content takes on increasing valence.
Read moreStefania Marghitu reflects on auteur apologism after #MeToo and outlines productive ways for media studies scholars and teachers to refocus conversations about authorship on marginalized artists and creators.
Read moreSamantha N. Sheppard examines the televisual politics of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch’s defiant press conference performances and unruly and enigmatic star persona.
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