A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A reconsideration of the films of LVN Pictures through the lens of a contemporary festival audience.
Read moreJoe Tompkins examines the place of the horror auteur within convergent media culture.
Read moreA look at the (crumbling) star identity of Tiger Woods.
Read moreA consideration of how the search engine Bing “decides” for its users.
Read moreA consideration of theoretical applications to the apparatus of television against the presence of cable signal frequency
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
Direct-to-DVD (D2D) films are often ignored by academic discourse, yet the study of D2D films offers an important contribution to the fields of both reception and genre studies.
Read moreA consideration of media narratives of spelling bee winners.
Read moreA look at the often-brutal power dynamic undergirding the Olympics and its media history.
Read moreA re-examination of A Married Couple in light of the current proliferation of reality-based TV.
A discussion of a few ways in which Latina/os have reclaimed and repositioned Latina/o representations on popular U.S. American television.
Read moreA brief examination of celebrity culture and race within television.
Read moreThe confluence of edutainment, celebrity philanthropy, popular environmentalism, post-cold war neo-liberal politics, and the media event in Guy Laliberte’s space tourism.
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