Popular Culture

Examines Twin Peaks’s history and representations of female trauma and agency.

Explores the proliferation of true crime audiovisual texts across multiple media platforms.

A deep-dive into the practice and execution of contemporary television viewing.

Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapting the Harry Potter novels to films and media.

Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies.

Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.

A historical and analytical examination of the iconic 1950s television and radio family sitcom.

Demonstrates how Maverick, "The Legend of the West," fractured, altered, or undermined nearly every Western code and myth.

Examines the reception, formal strategies, production history, and ideological underpinnings of the groundbreaking comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.