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Sports Guy Bill Simmons: Journalism’s Future?
I’m not a typical sports fan. I don’t closely follow and only sporadically watch. Yet I know a considerable amount about the politics, Vegas lines, player personalities, and upcoming draft picks for...
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Summer Media: The Scott Pilgrim Comics Series
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s indie comedy/action/romance series Scott Pilgrim has cultivated a rabid fanbase quick to shove the first book into the hands of any non-comics reader expressing even the vaguest...
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Men Who Write About Men Who Hate Women
Whether the term “feminist” is being used humorously in an SNL monologue, idealistically by the heroine of a teen comedy series, or strategically by a former half-term governor seeking to mobilize...
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue
This week, 33 workers who were trapped underground for over two months in a collapsed mine in Chile were rescued. The Chilean mine rescue has been quite a prominent media event, which is already being...
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Araña: The State of Latinidad in Marvel Comics
In the sixth issue of Young Allies, a minor Marvel comic book, white teen superheroine Nomad expresses frustration with her inability to communicate with Benito Serrano, a.k.a. “Toro,” a fellow teenage...
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Defining Television Studies
We’re in the final stages of drafting a volume on Television Studies for Polity’s Short Introductions series. While we’ve negotiated a fair bit of ambivalence in this task, we ultimately decided it...
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Charlie Chan and Contemporary B-Movie Fandom
Professor Yunte Huang’s recent book Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (W.W. Norton and Co, 2010) attempts to rehabilitate the reputation...
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The Power of Women’s Voices in The Great Gatsby
“[T]here was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen,’ a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a...
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Let’s talk about search: Some lessons from building Lantern
This week, Lantern reached its first wide public. Lantern is a search and visualization platform for the Media History Digital Library (MHDL), an open access digitization initiative that I lead with...
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Popular Culture and Politics: The Hunger Games 3-Finger Salute in Thai Protests
On June 2, 2014, news about protesters in Thailand holding up the Hunger Games 3-finger salute began proliferating across news networks and websites like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The...
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