Tag: agency

• Media Engaging(s): Or, How I Learned To Be Both/And in an Either/Or Discipline

  

  This essay contains an early draft of what I ultimately wrote for the Participations special issue on “media engagement” as a concept in audience studies. This essay contains some good ideas that were no where near ready for publishing. I may also not have the time to come back to them, as I have been […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 25, 2021

  Audience/Reception Studies, Communication Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  agency, audience studies, Communication Studies, critical studies, Cultural Studies, fan studies, human-computer interaction, media effects, media engagings, media studies, media uses and effects, minutia, objectivity, phenomenological, power, reception studies, Sense-Making Methodology, Situationality, structure, subjectivity, talk-aloud, transjectivity, Uses and Gratifications

• Exorcism Cinema Book Published

  

  Here it is! The Tensions in Exorcism Cinema project began in 2013, when my partner Christopher J. Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I watched the film The Possession and noted how common it seemed for women to be the victim of possession who needed to be saved through exorcism. We wondered, is that true of […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 1, 2016

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abby, agency, Amityville II: The Possession, Ava’s Possession, Deliver Us from Evil, demonic possession, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, empowerment, exorcism, exorcism cinema, exorcism films, exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Exorcist: The Beginning, Feminism, Grace: The Possession, horror, horror movies, oppression, Possessed, possession, post-colonialism, queer theory, Repossessed, repression, Seytan, Stigmata, suppression, Teenage Exorcist, The Conjuring, The Conjuring II, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, voice, [REC]2

• Pop Culture Lens on They Live

  

  In the twenty-third episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher and I welcome back friend of the podcast Joe Belfeuil to discuss John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic They Live and how the film seems as relevant if not more now. The short story the film is based on can be found on this website. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 25, 2016

  Communication Studies, Film Studies, Text Analysis

  agency, Aliens, Bubblegum, Bush, Clinton, conspiracy theories, cultural hegemony, Foucault, Giddens, Hegemony, income inequality, John Carpenter, Keith David, knowledge, Meg Foster, New World Order, oligarchy, power, Roddy Piper, Ronald Reagan, structure, They Live, Trump

• Virtual World Television and Interactive Television

  

  This is the end result of the work I have been doing with Pooky Amsterdam. This paper is the write-up of the presentation Avatars, Audiences and Interactive Television. I do not think there is enough in this paper to make pursuing publication worthwhile, but I do hope to use the categorizations of the three types […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 16, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Television Studies, Virtual Worlds

  “television-as-content”, “television-as-technology”, access interactivity, agency, audiences, broadcasting, content interactivity, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, power, prosumers, social interactivity, Television, User-generated content, virtual world television, Virtual worlds

• From Reaffirming to Challenging Traditions: A critical comparison of The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part II

  

  Christopher Olson and I presented our first analysis for the exorcism cinema project at this year’s Midwest Popular Culture Association conference. We subsequently wrote the presentation as a paper that would go in a book we are developing. We just submitted the book proposal last night, and now this morning you can read this analysis […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 26, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Sexuality

  agency, demonic possession, demons, empowerment, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, horror, horror movies, patriarchy, possession, sexuality, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism

• Legion: Or, the Exorcism Movie that Makes Me Sad for Roddy Piper

  

  I recently came to be interested in professional wrestling. For awhile there — as in most of my life — I thought wrestling to be beneath me, an entertainment that degrades those who do it and those who watch it. I was wrong: there are many layers to this sports entertainment, and it is quite […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 29, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  agency, alcoholism, Baptism, Baptist, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Costa Chica, Dave Bautista, demons, epilepsy, exorcism, exorcist, Hulk Hogan, Legion, Mexico, molestation, pigs, post-verbal, Professional Wrestling, rape, Roddy Piper, Rowdy Roddy Piper, sports entertainment, The Rock, WWE, WWF

• In Defense of Fans via Fractured Fandom

  

  In defense of fans and fandom, I want to make clear that I would not argue that fractured fandom happens all the time or involves a majority of the population of any particular fandom. What I would say about fractured fandom is that it reflects a larger social and cultural issue, in the United States […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 9, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  agency, Audience, communication, dialogue, equality, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, honor, listening, Respect

• Fan Privilege and Fractured Fandom

  

  Lately, almost every day reveals another story that could be related to a phenomenon I have been discussing on this blog: fractured fandom. Just within the past week, we have had stories about Men’s Rights Activists being misogynists in video gaming communities (here and here), a consideration of how the generation gap is causing problems […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 4, 2014

  Communication Studies, Fandom

  agency, Anthony Giddens, Black Peter, communication, Community, Fandom, fans, Ferguson, fractured fandom, legitimacy, Michael Brown, misogyny, normalcy, online communities, privilege, sexism, social literacy, structuration theory, Thanksgiving, traditions, white privilege

• The Fetishistic Turn in My Little Pony

  

  This blog post originally appeared at Clearance Bin Review almost a year ago, in consideration for the then upcoming release of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic movie Equestria Girls.  Given my research on that topic, I decided to bring it here as well, under the umbrella that is the fractured fandom project. Almost […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 17, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Sexuality

  agency, anthropomorphism, bronies, clopfic, Equestria Girls, fan activity, fan art, fetish, fetishes, hentai, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, sexualization, Slash, uncanny valley

• The Study of Gendered Media Engagings (Part 2): Defining Gender

  This is the second part of my dissertation’s first chapter.  The first part was on defining gendered media engagings.  Theoretical constructions of gender In order to properly begin a discussion on the theoretical approach being employed in this study, it is necessary to define what is meant by the gendering process.  The concept of gender […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 18, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Gender Studies

  agency, biological, dialogic, gender, gendered, gendered media engagings, interpretive, media engagings, performative, sociocultural, structuration theory, structure, transmission