A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Jess King reflects on the intersectional barriers to agency depicted in Netflix’s Maid (2021), a series about a young lower-class mother struggling to create stability for herself and her daughter.
Read morePeter Arne Johnson theorizes how pure play streaming services like Netflix have discursively deployed audience affect and speculation to inflate their market valuations.
Read moreHannah 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 moreCara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas.
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 moreBetty Kaklamanidou addresses And Just Like That… and the quasi-invisibility of women in their late forties and fifties on television.
Read moreIn the second part of her series focusing on Black Lives Matter television, Brandy Monk-Payton interrogates the reboot of The Wonder Years as a site for nostalgia and sentimentalism as constitutive of Black subjectivity.
Read moreCara Dickason explores the relationship between women’s television and streaming services through the Netflix series, You.
Read moreHelen Wheatley explores the trend of families in television dramas who grapple with the processes of grief and mourning.
Read moreIsabel Molina-Guzmán explores how normative visual expectations around race and ethnicity in US casting culture impact the opportunities for Black/Latina/x actors.
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