A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Erique Zhang explores the history of trans visibility through a closer look at the 2022 documentary, Framing Agnes.
Read moreMaria San Filippo examines the complicated history of women’s voices in the Film Academy.
Read moreKate Fortmueller explores the cultural workplaces of the tech entertainment industries through the recent voice actor strike and video game unionization efforts in the video game industry.
Read moreKáLyn Banks Coghill details and describes the world and work of alt(erntative) Black girls.
Read moreIn the second part of her series focusing on Black Lives Matter television, Brandy Monk-Payton interrogates the reboot of The Wonder Years as a site for nostalgia and sentimentalism as constitutive of Black subjectivity.
Read moreBetty Kaklamanidou addresses And Just Like That… and the quasi-invisibility of women in their late forties and fifties on television.
Read moreCatherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.
Read moreQuinn Miller explores the music-TV-publishing industry through a discussion of the 1998 novel Floating published by MTV Books.
Read moreRavynn K. Stringfield discusses the implications of racebending in superhero narratives, especially in relation to Black women and misogynoir.
Read moreMoa Eriksson Krutrök explores the ways social media like TikTok can offer individuals social support to process grief and trauma. Unfortunately, meme culture can radically recontextualize the personal and exploit already vulnerable people.
Read moreKara Carmack historicizes the counterhegemonic technical failures on Glenn O’Brien’s public access TV Party.
Read moreJames Fenwick explores Hollywood film history through archival research of the industry’s unmade films.
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