Category: Volume 21

A discussion of the complicated gender politics of the new GoldiBlox “action figure” and its marketing campaign.

A discussion of online privacy and photo sharing in the aftermath of the Snapchat hack.

A consideration of how satire TV in the Obama era has come to embody and channel a “comedy of exasperation.”

An analysis of the feminist memetics of Binders Full of Women.

Assessing the status of media regulation in the United States from pop culture understandings to FCC proceedings.

An examination of both the depiction of Arabs in FX’s Tyrant and the moral position of academics to critique such depictions in the first place.

Melinda Barlow paints a picture of Toronto’s past, present, and future referencing a variety of films and artists to create a visual journey through the city.

Television’s recent embrace of complex imagery and visual flair has, to some extent, shifted discourses of craft value as new creative possibilities emerge for that medium’s below-the-line professions.

A detailed account of the narrativization of contestant relationships on the reality show Dancing with the Stars.

Performing labour that is by its nature literally invisible and at the same time raises issues of transparency, the work of the dubbing actor needs to be understood beyond dogged fixations on dubbing’s supposed lack of originality, and authenticity, as well as the constraining matters of practicality