Content tagged "popular culture"
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Podcast: “The Spiciest Memelord – An Interview with Jeopardy Champ Lilly Chin”
MIT’s Jeopardy champ talks strategy, memes — and becoming strangers’ media object.
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Video and podcast: “The Turn to ‘Tween’: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences”
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity?
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The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture, including music, television, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with–or elide–issues pertaining to race, class, and gender identity?
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Podcast: Thomas DeFrantz, “Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture”
Thomas DeFrantz “wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials.”
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The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
Thomas DeFranz “wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials.”
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CMS/W Studies Pro Wrestling: Former MIT Students Cut Their Promos on the Value of Studying Pop Culture
“It can be a great lens into human culture, social connection, and processes of meaning-making…but I feared the depth behind it could get lost in the process.”
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Race and Representation after 9/11
What kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
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Contemporary Issues in South Asian Diasporic Popular Culture
Shilpa Dave, Dhiraj Murthy, and Helen Kim on contemporary issues in South Asian pop culture, with a focus on youth cultures and cultural translation.
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Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture
Elisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, hacktivst and writer. She co-edits the blog, PoliticalRemixVideo.com.
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Comic-Con Is Serious Business
It’s a continent away from Comparative Media Studies headquarters in Cambridge, but the CMS spirit was palpable at Comic-Con in San Diego this year.
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Politics and Popular Culture
With Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USC; David Carr, media and culture writer for the New York Times; and Stephen Duncombe, associate professor at NYU.
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CMS Director Henry Jenkins Profiled in the Boston Globe
The story touches upon recent issues such as Jenkins’ new book, and current research as well as providing an overview of his life and career thus far.
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Strictly Bollywood?: Story, Camera and Movement in Hindi Film Dance
Why these Bollywood dances emerged as key ingredients of film and how these dances are received and reinterpreted by audiences outside India.
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We Are Like This Only: Desis and Hindi Films in the Diaspora
A theoretical framework and a set of analytical tools that might help us understand how Hindi films are watched in the Indian-American diaspora.
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Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
The essays cover a wide and colorful array of subjects including pro wrestling, Doom, soap operas, baseball cards, karaoke, and Internet fandom.
