A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Through analysis of Hulu’s Woke, Laura Irwin and Ralina L. Joseph explore the complexities of the burden of representation that Black TV faces.
Read moreCaroline N. Bayne takes a closer look at the women behind the iconic horror personas working in Southern U.S. television during the 1950s.
Read moreAlfred L. Martin, Jr.’s media reception analysis explores how viewers make sense of 1990s representations of Black queer characters in UPN’s Moesha (1996-2001).
Read moreAfter discussing current scholarship on Sofía Vergara’s portrayal of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, María Elena Cepeda proposes contextualizing Vergara’s Caribbean and diasporic identity, her class positionality, her gendered subjectivity, and her racial location for future scholarship on Vergara’s character.
Read moreExploring the design and economics of the newsletter platform Substack, Austin Morris considers both its positive and negative implications for the future of digital media work.
Read moreCynthia Meyers discusses the experiential advertising at the World of Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
Read moreAlyx Vesey considers how musicians have made use of television as a medium for promotional appearances, music videos, and award shows in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreChristina N. Baker incorporates thinking on poetry, hip hop, and creativity to consider Black artistry in Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old-Version.
Read moreL. Corinne Jones and Mel Stanfill examine the social media phenomenon of “circulatory terrorism” through the #NotAgainSU hashtag.
Read moreCrystal Camargo interrogates the politics of representation of undocumented immigrants and the privileging of moral complexity for ICE agents in Netflix’s docuseries Immigration Nation.
Read moreUsing professional wrestling as a case study to analyze unofficial broadcast distribution, Eleanor Patterson analyzes the role of tape trading and fan communities to the circulation of pro-wrestling media.
Read moreAmanda C. Cote and Caden Perry discuss the racialized aspects of character creation in role-playing games.
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