A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Hannah Wold traces some of the ways in which the horror text Scream: The TV Series received reviews that precluded it from the distinction granted to the Scream film franchise, indicating that its intended audience and the MTV brand ensured that it was left behind in discourses of quality.
Read moreHelen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of “post-death experience.”
Read moreMaggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive.
Read moreStefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck.
Read moreCara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas.
Read moreNicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze.
Read moreSarah E.S. Sinwell details how one art house cinema continues to adapt to the pandemic while serving its local community.
Read moreIsabel Molina-Guzmán discusses how Bridgerton‘s escapist, colorblind narrative discursively produces a racial nostalgia that simultaneously erases unpleasant histories of racial conflict, generates pleasure in non-white audiences, and maintains white subjectivity.
Read moreRiziki Millanzi assesses the Snowpiercer television series depiction of intersectional politics, arguing the show ignores the nuances and varied experiences of marginalized peoples to oppression.
Read moreErique Zhang explores the history of trans visibility through a closer look at the 2022 documentary, Framing Agnes.
Read moreMaria San Filippo examines the complicated history of women’s voices in the Film Academy.
Read moreKate Fortmueller explores the cultural workplaces of the tech entertainment industries through the recent voice actor strike and video game unionization efforts in the video game industry.
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