Author: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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Confession of a Wil Wheaton Fan
I admit: in high school, I was gaga for Wil Wheaton. Allow me to demonstrate the extent of my affection and devotion to the actor best known for being the much mocked Wesley Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was because of that show that I “found” him. I didn’t hate Wesley: I…
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Awesomest Cookbook Ever
Every once and awhile, you’ll go into a used bookstore, and after you finish wondering about the future of the print industry thanks to e-readers, you’ll browse the musty collections and find a gem. A gem like what I have deemed to be the “Awesomest Cookbook Ever” — and that’s awesomest in the original sense…
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Equality Studies: A Call to Action
I respect the work that has been done by critical scholars to point out the ways in which people have been created/oppressed by the social/cultural conditions into which they were born. However, much work in qualitative studies remains focused on how such conditions creates differences in how people see themselves and each other; in…
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Female Fans From the Beginning
I’m late in putting this out there, but it’s worth watching. This is a video from a Star Trek convention from 1973: that’s before the motion picture that reignited the franchise. So these are the true believers, those who followed the television series, and perhaps were starting with the short lived animated series. These were…
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Comics Adaptations and True Believers
Think about all of the movies being made lately adapting a comic book or graphic novel. The superhero movie has become it’s own genre, with every major Hollywood studio trying to create tentpole franchises on well known, and not well known, superheroes. The studios are even “re-imagining” superheroes who have been in franchises, or attempt…
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The Otaku of OSU
As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, in graduate school I learned about, and experimented with, slash. That journey started with exploring more of my interest in Japanese anime and manga. Perhaps in another post, some day, I’ll introduce you to hentai. Now that will be a fun discussion. As part of my exploration of…
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Preliminary Marxist Critique of Superheroes
[What follows is from a class assignment for a critical theory course I took in graduate school. It’s in idea I’ve been mulling over for awhile. It is not a complete idea: just the seed of something for the future.] I’ve been mulling over this idea for a while: how to conduct a Marxist critique…
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Fear the Virtual World?
I must make a confession up front: I would never have watched The Ghost Whisperer if it was not for my involvement with the Virtual Worlds Research Project at Roskilde Unviersity. I’m most certainly not a Jennifer Love Hewitt fan, and the idea of the series never captured me. Especially since it was on Friday…
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Learning to Slash
Ever hear of slash? When I went to graduate school, I was not aware of slash. But I came to learn about it, be fascinated by it, and even did my own. Slash is a genre of fiction written by fans of a particular media product (i.e. television show, movie, comic book, religious text, etc.):…
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Clinical Therapy with Buster Keaton
Well, no, not really. I never met the man, the genius, the one of four comedians who can be considered the founding fathers of American comedy films. But I did write an intake report for him as if I was his therapist. Buster Keaton was born October 4, 1895 as Joseph Frank Keaton, Jr. He…
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