A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Using the new HBO series Westworld, Myles McNutt discusses the shifts in television and media coverage that feeds theory-driven conversations and enables a set of forensic fan practices.
Read moreIn his final essay on his graduate course “The Textual Object,” Nicholas Sammond presents his class’s final production of Disneyland, the Reader.
Read moreIn this post, Nicholas Sammond continues his discussion of teaching Disneyland as text. Using Lefebvre, he illustrates the value of space for discerning and analyzing textuality in the classroom.
Read moreNicholas Sammond considers Disneyland as a text, engaging the amusement park as a textual (and intertextual) object and narrative in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, in order to expand notions of textuality and its study.
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