A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Catherine 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.
Read moreSander Hölsgens and Paul O’Connor locate the persistent presence of failure within the evolution of skateboarding videos.
Read moreDafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.
Read moreJennifer M. Kang compares Quibi and Kakao TV to reconsider notions of failure on mobile streaming platforms.
Read moreLisa Lin considers how programs that were deemed to be market failures can be viewed through different lenses of success.
Read moreRuben Vandenplas tackles highbrow and lowbrow cultural tastes, arguing that a user’s media repertoire is deserving of a quantitative-qualitative study.
Read moreIsabelle Williams grapples with the manifestation of failure in the video game Getting Over It by dissecting movement of the player’s body in several key moments of the game.
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