A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Ramon Lobato explores the challenges in global media distribution by considering Netflix’s efforts to adapt to local conditions, regulations, and audience expectations.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso examines the make-up tutorial video as a postfeminist genre which makes visible the hidden labor of aspirational beauty.
Read morePatty Ahn explores how YouTube is helping Korean pop music become a global phenomenon.
Read morePaul Reinsch explores the unacknowledged cultural significance of soundtrack albums.
Read moreAmanda Phillips writes about the representation of masculinties, particularly through the representation of penises, the omnipresent hardness, and the always absent softness or flaccidity.
Read moreUsing Lifetime’s UnReal as a case study, Jorie Lagerwey and Taylor Nygaard examine the representation of white, liberal, middle-class, educated women in the emerging “Horrible White People” genre on cable and streaming platforms.
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