To start the new season, in the forty-first episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard are joined by unofficial third co-host Joe Belfeuil to discuss the star, screen, and political persona of Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this episode, the co-hosts review Schwarzenegger’s biography to understand where he came from and how…
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Nicolas Winding Refn and the Construction of a Stable Masculinity: Part II
Christopher Olson’s writing on the portrayal of masculinity in the films of Nicolas Winding Refn moves into a focus on one characteristics that seems to define what a “real man” is: stoicism. The strong, silent type. The man who acts instead of speaks. We see it all the time in our pop culture, and Olson…
