The politics of Disney's Frozen are indicative of symptomatic shifts within an otherwise largely entrenched ideological core.
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Negotiations and Regressions of Cultural Politics in Disney’s Frozen
Following the Instructions
Continuing to think about LEGO, the idea of “creativity,” and the unequal extension of that idea to different consumer groups.
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“Mother Daughter Sister Wife”: Gender on Comedy Central
Comedy Central has long courted young men with disconcerting portrayals of women, but several of its programs this spring provide small indications of a different politics of representation.
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Reality Gendervision Conference CFP
Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV Conference, on April 26-27, 2013, at Indiana University.
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Life Is Not A Fairy Tale
Just in time for Halloween, ABC and NBC both rolled out new shows last week focusing on the basic premise that Fairy Tales are real and their protagonists, or their ancestors, are living somewhere in the United States.
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Report From the Association of Internet Researchers Conference
Ben Aslinger, Sean Duncan, and Liz Ellcessor provide some thoughts on IR12, the 12th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, which was held in Seattle, October 10-13.
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Glee: Kurt and the Casting Couch
In the second episode of Glee’s new season, “I Am Unicorn,” Kurt’s character loses the romantic lead in the school musical, West Side Story, to his more masculine boyfriend Blaine. The episode was both fascinating and confounding because instead of interrogating masculinist gender hierarchies, usually one of the show’s great strengths, the show affirmed...
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Keepin’ it Real on Treme
The producers/writers on Treme are under tremendous pressure: they ache to do right by New Orleans, they have to make a television show that people will continue watching, and they want to tell the truth about the city putting itself back together after the storm.
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Glee: The Countertenor and The Crooner, Part 3
Just as Chris Colfer provides a model for queer kids who have not yet been represented, so Darren Criss provides an equally significant alternative model for queer straightness.
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Glee: The Countertenor and The Crooner
The popularity of Glee, and, in particular, these two singers, has made me think that American culture may finally be starting to break with the gender norms of male singing performance that have persisted for the last 80 years.
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Back from the Brink: The Return of Don Draper
In "Chinese Wall," barriers between personal and professional lives continue to erode, and Mad Men's men begin to wrestle with these costs.
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What’s Happening to Don Draper?: Mad Men and the Waning Value of Masculine Detachment
Unlike any other episode to date, “Waldorf Stories” stresses the importance of masculine disengagement by creating a context in which this mode is no longer available to Don.
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Damages: A Tale of Two Women
Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Or so says high-stakes attorney Patty Hewes of FX’s Damages.
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Holding My Breath: Women, Work, and Parenthood
To the series’ credit, it often “goes there”—into those contentious waters of clearly gendered dilemmas about women’s work, motherhood, and guilt that were a mainstay of a lot of 1980s and 1990s drama.
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A Damaged Conclusion
Looking back at Damages, I realize it would have been right at home amidst '80s film narratives that demonized career women while asserting the proper place of women at the hearth in the home.
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