A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Is Aca-Fandom still a useful theoretical trope? Does it privilege some objects and remove the possibility of discussing others? Is aca-fandom merely a way to justify and privilege some tastes and thus reinforce them?
Read moreDr. Tama Leaver investigates how David Fincher’s The Social Network reflects the nature and sociability of social network users as well as the communication tool’s complex creators.
Read moreThe “nobody knows anything” phrase is a smokescreen for an extensive and concentrated organization of advantage in the arena of commercial cultural enterprise.
Read moreNorma Coates asserts that rock as youth music is dead and heading to the morgue in this provocative article.
Read moreAn examination of the potential positive and negative roles of video in the lives of LGBTQ youth, and a call to action for members of the critical scholar community.
Read moreThe 2010 Emmy broadcast reveals the tensions of a liberal politics of representation in the shows Glee and Modern Family.
Read moreA paratextual analysis of Robert Rodriguez’s recent “mexploitation” film, Machete
Read moreA thoughtful analysis of television networks’ promotional emphasis on diversity and how it may contribute to the belief that television is an equal-opportunity playing field.
Read moreA look at how the DVD industry’s use of packaging mirrors and contrasts that of deluxe vinyl and CD sets.
Read moreDaren Brabham examines RuPaul teaching women how to be glamorous on his new Logo TV program, RuPaul’s DragU.
Read moreMary Beltran analyzes the flash mob trend and what it means for Fox’s musical darling, Glee.
Read moreExamining the role of opening title sequences as a space of pleasure in image and sound, setting the stage, tone and atmosphere for the ensuing action.
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