A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Wright analyzes Dr. Bailey’s heart attack in Grey’s Anatomy, revealing how racial and gender stereotypes shape Black women’s medical treatment and self-advocacy within biased healthcare systems.
Read moreDr. David Oh investigates how Kpop Demon Hunters has managed to maintain its popular status despite the film’s counterhegemonic tendencies.
Read moreKpop Demon Hunters is experiencing an unprecedented global success as an animated film, becoming the most watched content on Netflix with 325.1 million views in ninety-one days following its release. While one might be inclined to identify specific elements of the film that appeal to the global audience, Kpop Demon Hunters prompts us to examine questions of national identity in terms of its Koreanness, as an animated film produced by Sony Pictures and distributed on Netflix, with Koreans making up twenty percent of the film’s creative team.
Read moreOwens argues that Rosey the Robot from The Jetsons demonstrates the connection between service technologies and Black housemaid archetypes, lending to considerations of how technologies can contain and disseminate harmful ideologies.
Read moreJacqueline Johnson examines the deeper significance of the wigs in Netflix’s Queen Charlotte.
Read moreA reflection on where surveillance and spectacle intersect with blackness in Jordan Peele’s Nope.
Read moreKelly Coyne dissects the racial and gender politics that underlie the “dumb blonde” stereotype.
Read moreDr. Morgan Bimm examines radio as a tool of nationalism and alienation.
Read moreDr. Jess King explores how standardized rules for screenplay formatting constrain the representation of intersectional identities that are historically underrepresented. They note how disrupting the standardized white space of screenplays can make room for new characters, such as Vida’s Emma.
Read moreWendy Peters argues that the contemporary and decentralized context of music production, distribution, and social media promotion diversified and transformed pop music by enabling Lil Nas X—a Black and openly gay star—to rise.
Read moreNina Linhales Barker discusses the complications of Latina fans wanting to see themselves represented in Netflix’s Bridgerton.
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.
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