A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Jennifer Hessler discusses how television’s recurring trope of rigged ratings has shaped our cultural memory of Nielsen.
Read moreAccording to Netflix, Adam Sandler dominated the platform in 2019. Danielle Williams breaks down his success by looking at the numbers.
Read moreThe second installment of his three-part series sees Taylor Miller consider the implications of edits made to syndicated TV programs on their textuality and reception.
Read moreKit Hughes explores the cable industry’s dual missions to uphold quality programming for children while pushing for deregulation.
Read moreInterrogating audiences’ ability to share ideological interpretations of interactive texts, Ryan Stoldt argues people’s cultural tastes impact the range of questions they will encounter through interactive texts.
Read moreKatherine E. Morrissey explores how the recent successes (and failures) of Crazy Rich Asians and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before illustrate two emerging distribution strategies for rom-coms within the increasingly global media market.
Read moreKit MacFarlane cross-references television archives to recreate and analyze the primetime schedule of New Year’s Eve 1959.
Read moreKathleen Loock compares definitive Christmas classics It’s a Wonderful Life and Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel to contemporary holiday movie releases from Netflix, exploring how the streaming service is using the niche to create Christmas movies for a global audience.
Read moreThe Rocky Horror Picture Show has been the object of ongoing cultural fascination and criticism for its portrayal of transgender stereotypes. Cáel M. Keegan questions whether this “bad object” is redeemable in this exploration of the standards of representation in the transgender media archive.
Read moreAnalyzing recent Congressional testimony of social media and internet content firms, Sarah T. Roberts reveals the expanding “soft power” reach of Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996.
Read moreBrian Fauteux takes readers through his experience participating in Canada’s copyright review process. The author particularly highlights how the current state of the market allows for large companies to have a great deal of control over artists.
Read moreAnalyzing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Helen Morgan-Parmett discusses the intersections of gender and urban crisis in nostalgic discourses surrounding New York’s past, present, and future.
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