A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
David Church considers how a renewed interest in drive-in theaters as movie exhibition spaces, as well as spaces for religious services during the Covid-19 health crisis, brings further attention to politicization of public space.
Read moreLooking at the battle between Hannah and Luke on The Bachelorette, Matthew H. Brittingham examines the complicated intersection of faith and sex in American reality television.
Read moreKiwi Lanier examines the ways in which HBO’s The Leftovers allows an audience with waning participation in organized religion to explore a variety of spiritual attitudes and beliefs in a compelling fictional environment.
Read moreSometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India
by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
The Indian majority’s non-response to the Gere-Shetty kiss indicates reinforces the notion that diverse cultures in India have known how to live with each other for centuries
Television and the Work of Mourning
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
How do we cope with the loss of our favorite television shows?
When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Saudi Connection
by: Nabil Echchaibi / Indiana University-Bloomington
An examination of Irqa’ TV’s role in the promotion of Islam in a post-9/11 media landscape.
War, Incendiary Media, and International Law (Part I)
by: John Nguyet Erni / City University of Hong Kong
The first of a three part series on media and warfare from a human rights perspective, this column focuses on defining what media/information intervention is.
Faith-Based Plot Initiatives
by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
An inquiry into the form and function of divinity in Joan of Arcadia.
Pass the Remote!
by: Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek
HBO’s Carnivale and the valorization of freak culture.
“Lost”
by: Allison McCracken / DePaul University
With a fall season marked by the popularity of programs entitled Without a Trace and Lost, the importance of loss as a televisual theme seems rather obvious.
Political Polarization and the New Hollywood Blockbuster
by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College CUNY
The connection between politics and movies is continuous and yet murky…