A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
For better and worse, the body guy’s big penis is all he has left on the new HBO series Hung.
Read moreAn examination of the relationship between the ‘ontology of liveness’ and ‘reality’ in television today.
Read moreA look at masculinity and the primal in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts.
Read moreA skeptical look at the technological determinism at work in American perceptions of the effects of Twitter on the recent Iranian conflict.
Read moreAn examination of Asian American political participation and cultural expression within Barack Obama’s grassroots campaign.
Read moreA look at disaporic media cultures and MTV’s efforts to target Asian-American youth.
Exploring the industry effects and phenomena of “musicking” of the video games Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Read moreA revisitation of the iconic early television series The Goldbergs.
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A new film explores the complex mix of the emotion, politics, and personal obligations of motherhood.
A look at some of the issues raised by Britain’s Got Talent including the emotional labor of both audiences and contestants and advertising revenue on television and the internet.
An analysis of FX’s Damages as a program about law “out-of-order,” enacting a liberal revenge fantasy through Glenn Close’s character, Patty Hewes.
Read moreAn examination of how the absence of reruns of Canadian programming on Canadian television effects Canadian nostalgia and national memory.
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