A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
David Murray’s reinterpretation of Nat King Cole prompts me to rehear The Nat King Cole Show, especially in the context of black televisual presence in today’s digital platforms.
Read moreObama, Partners, The New Normal, and the question of marriage equality.
Read moreA consideration for reality stars’ expected ethics and behavior.
Read moreBetween the relations of subordination and domination in the American south and the English countryside.
Read moreDan Chyutin ruminates on recent scholarly publications on Christian cinema.
Read moreDiane Lewis considers otaku desire, fantasy, and reality in relation to changing understandings of masculinity.
Read moreDana Polan reflects on Raymond Williams’s “Television: Technology and Cultural Form.”
Read morePaula Amad interrogates the investment in the return of the gaze and traces manifestations of a visual riposte ‘turn’ in media culture.
Read moreKrapp’s third contribution analyzes the role of in-game advertising to support the economic model of digital distribution and the tensions between advertising and quality in video games.
Read moreThe third-installment of “Habit-Change in the Mobile Present,” this article discusses everyday practices with technologies examining how the mobile application, Augusta App, demonstrates our inclination to announce location and render ourselves findable in the mobile present.
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