Tag: American Idol

• The Pop Culture Lens Episode 2: Freaks (1932)

  

  The second episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast is up and live! In the second episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard are joined by young scholar Clelia Sweeney to discuss the counterculture cult horror classic Freaks (1932). Their guest brings to bear her research on freak shows, reality […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 9, 2014

  Film Studies, Television Studies

  abnormality, American Horror Story, American Idol, carnivals, counterculture, cult cinema, freak shows, Freaks, horror, mainstream, reality TV, side shows, The Biggest Loser, Tod Browning

• The Study of Gendered Media Engagings (Part 3): Why It Matters

  This is the third part of my dissertation’s first chapter.  The first part was on defining gendered media engagings.  The second part was on defining gender. Why studying gendered media engagings matters Thanks to the work of scholars such as Dallas Smythe, we are aware of the central role of advertisement in most media industries (Smythe, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 20, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Gender Studies

  American Idol, Audience, audience commodity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cross-gender, cross-gendered media engagings, Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, feminine, gender, gendered, gendered media engagings, I Love Lucy, masculine, Media, media engagings, shonen manga, Star Trek, Star Wars