A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Examining the role of opening title sequences as a space of pleasure in image and sound, setting the stage, tone and atmosphere for the ensuing action.
Read moreDo male protagonists in household cleaner TV commercials reinforce or challenge the dominant ideology of the female as the traditional homemaker?
Read moreFlashForward breaks with the linearity of straight time to offer moments of unknowability that challenge the script of life, presenting an opportunity to think about multiple ways of interpreting the place of non-straight representations in ideas of the future.
Read moreDaren Brabham investigates the strange appeal of curling to American spectators.
Read moreAn exploration of the intertextual references underscoring the narrative of ABC’s Lost.
Read moreCyclists have taken to the Internet to spread their message: the bicycle can stand as part of the solution to a whole range of problems, including climate change, obesity, traffic, pollution, depression, petrol politics, and even oil spills.
Read moreAnalysis of the rise and fall of the border-patrolling Minutemen volunteers.
Read moreA consideration of how ABC’s The Middle transgresses its working-class sitcom roots by re-positioning the blue-collar male.
Read moreAn exploration of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie as another entrant into the growing group of older female protagonists across both network and cable programming.
Read moreRecent Burmese video footage prompts the question: How do we preserve and document revolution?
Read moreA look at reason-based entertainment in television shows Mythbusters and Bullshit.
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