From Hopper’s Hollywood to Trump’s America
July 12, 2021
—Jennifer Frost
In this feature from Dilettante Army, learn how Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper’s work fits into a lineage of American conservatism.
Category: Media Studies
Comics and Stuff: Q&A with Henry Jenkins
June 8, 2021
We caught up with Henry Jenkins to find out more about the shifting cultural role of comics, how comics reflect our relationships to material things, and more.
Horrible White People and Contemporary Television
November 19, 2020
Brandy Monk-Payton interviews authors Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey about the horrible White people on television
It Shouldn’t Be Taboo to Publish Images of Those Killed by Violence
August 18, 2020
Jessica Fishman discusses the conflicts of documenting death
The limits of knowledge in a data-driven society
June 23, 2020
What counts as knowledge in the age of big data and smart machines? All too often, data generates speculation as much as it does information.
Not Me-Studies, but We-Studies: On Open World Empire
March 27, 2020
—Christopher B. Patterson Only after I finished my first book, Transitive Cultures (Rutgers University Press, 2018), did I realize how personal the book was. Somehow, it never registered that this… READ MORE
Will Netflix’s Messiah spark outrage at the portrayal of Muslims?
January 10, 2020
—Evelyn Alsultany
A month before Netflix released Messiah, its new series about a mysterious Middle Eastern man who performs miracles and is being tracked by the CIA, a controversy erupted on Twitter. Muslims were convinced that the Messiah would turn out to be the anti-Christ, aka Dajjal, further fueling Islamophobia.
Welcome to Raunch Culture, USA
December 11, 2019
—Bernadette C. Barton
What does it mean for American culture writ large, when Netflix goes “viral” after its Twitter account asks followers, “What’s something you can say during sex but also when you manage a brand twitter account?”
