Author: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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Google Glass
Just in time for Google’s Tax Day sale / invitation to become an Explorer and buy Glass, my university released the video they made of me trying out our pair. I like the potential if not the current execution.
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The True Exorcism Stories: The Exorcism of Emily Rose
In this blog, we’ve been talking thus far about the movies that in some way relate to The Exorcist. There were the two sequels – the one with Regan and the one without her – that came from that movie, as well as the two prequels, and then the movie based on the non-fictional telling…
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Understanding Uses and Gratifications
[The following comes from my Ph.D. candidacy exam in 2007; in this part of the exam, I was asked to consider the uses and gratifications approach to media studies: what it is, how it came to be, and what are the strengths and weaknesses of it.] We are concerned here with explaining the uses-and-gratifications…
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Possessed Cat Toy
Proof that anything can be possessed by a demonic source, and that demons only possess innocent creatures and not corrupt ones. Someone call an exorcist, now!
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Support Grayson and All Young Bronies
If you are a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan, and you have not heard of Grayson Bruce, then you need to do some reading. And not just about Grayson, but about all the other young male fans of the series who are being bullied, by kids and adults alike, just because they have…
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Mobile Media Technologies at the Intersection of the Virtual and the Real
The blending of the physical and the virtual is increasing due to mobile computing technologies. Is our cybernetic future at hand? Christopher Olson uses digital tattoos to discuss the blending of realities, and the construction of reality in his latest article: Mobile Media Technologies at the Intersection of the Virtual and the Real.
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Possessed: Based on the True Story that Inspired The Exorcist
When William Peter Blatty was looking to write a story, he learned of a family in Maryland who claimed to have been one of the few, if not the only at that time, documented and thus official cases of exorcism in the United States. Blatty contacted the exorcist in charge of the ceremony, researched the…
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Nicolas Winding Refn and the Construction of a Stable Masculinity: Part IV
Christopher Olson continues his discussion of the construction of masculinity in the films of Nicolas Winding Refn by analyzing the violent portrayal of the main characters. Does this type of portrayal glorify or condemn such violence? Stay tuned for Olson’s thoughts on just that issue. Nicolas Winding Refn and the Construction of a Stable Masculinity:…
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Making Sense of Superheroes: Awareness of superhero genre conventions around the world
Report by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Roskilde University (March 6, 2009) of the Quantitative Results (This paper was presented at the Danish scifi convention Fantasticon to discuss the nature of superheroes.) A series of quantitative and qualitative questions were asked of individuals around the world on: whether or not certain characteristics defined superheroes; creating their own…
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Nicolas Winding Refn and the Construction of a Stable Masculinity: Part III
In this third part of his analysis of how the Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn portrays masculinity in his films, Christopher Olson deconstructs the films to understand how Refn creates men that reflect this idealized notion of individualism as an important characteristic of men. Read all about how this applies to Pusher, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and Drive in Nicolas…
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