A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Can a thoughtful, if depressing, sci-fi spinoff make it through its second season?
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Don Knotts: the embodiment of sex appeal?
Don Knotts: Reluctant Sex Object
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Heather Hendershot explores Don Knotts’ unique on-screen sexual persona.
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How zombies are used to make potent anti-war statements.
Comedy is a Woman in Trouble
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Questioning Comedy Central’s fixation on the male audience.
I Love Lucy in the Sixties
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How are our televisual memories and self-perceptions challenged when we revisit the shows of our youth?
Belaboring Reality
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College CUNY
In season one of The Simple Life, the apparently soulless Nicole Ritchie and Paris Hilton spend a month in rural Arkansas disappointing the Ledings, the humble, hard-working farm family that has agreed to take them in.
The Boob Tube
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College CUNY
“It’s like Jell-O on springs!” Jack Lemmon declares as he ogles Marilyn Monroe’s fleshy derriere in Some Like It Hot (1959). Lemmon himself is in drag, and watching this film recently for the umpteenth time, I am struck again by its strange combination of heterosexual prurience and queer exuberance. I am also struck by Monroe’s plumpness.
Super Freaks
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
Whatever TV lacks in form it sometimes makes up for in content. TV may not look good, but it feels good.