A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Stefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck.
Read moreRyan Banfi considers the representations of characters with disabilities in Netflix’s new series Locke & Key.
Read moreMiranda Brady explores the Good Mother/Bad Mother binary in the Loughlin/Huffman college admissions scandal and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician.
Read moreTaylor Peterson discusses the recent “resurgence” of Keanu Reeves vis-à-vis his performance in the John Wick franchise.
Read moreNathan Rossi considers the promotion and artistry of Latina Pop Star Camila Cabello during her rise to solo fame.
Read moreElizabeth Affuso considers Taylor Swift’s use of banal imaging via social media as a promotional technique.
Read moreSeeing is Believing
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
Critics of photography envisioned a world where people had consumed the image and thought they had experienced the thing itself. It seems they weren’t far off the mark.
Read moreCelebrity Nepotism, Family Values and E! Television
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
A closer look at families, wealth and Filthy Rich Cattle Drive.
How Much Do I Love myTunes? Allow Me to List the Ways…
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
With the proliferation of mp3 players, CD burners and cheap CD-Rs the art of the mix is practiced now more than ever.
Martha Stewart: Free but Still in Chains?
by: Melissa Click / University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Can Martha Stewart redeem herself through television?
I’m A Celebrity – Analyse Me: The Appeal of Celebrity Reality TV
by: Kirsty Fairclough / University of Salford, UK
What celebrity reality TV offers as opposed to its celebrity-constructing counterpart is not the transformation of the “ordinary” person into the “extraordinary,” but the opposite trajectory.
Who Wants to be a Crorepati?: Global Television and Local Genres in India
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
In 2000, when Star Plus Channel launched Kaun Banega Crorepati? (KBC), the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, the show quickly became the biggest hit on Indian television.