Tag: censorship

• The Pop Culture Lens Discusses Videodrome

  

  In the twenty-ninth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and myself welcome the Halloween season and friend of the podcast Salvatore DiSalvatore to discuss the body horror film from David Cronenberg, Videodrome (1983). In this episode, the conversation considers how prescient and thus still relevant this thirty-three year-old […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 17, 2016

  Film Studies, Internet Studies

  abjection, body horror, Carolyn Marvin, censorship, David Cronenberg, desensitization, hyperreality, Marshall McLuhan, misandry, misogyny, Neil Postman, new media, over-stimulation, Robert Putnam, sensationalism, Sherry Turkle, simulacrum, The Medium is the Message, Tom Standage, Videodrome

• On the Issues of Disagreement Becoming Censorship

  

  The conversation I had one night and into the next morning with the GamerGate supporter (i.e. a ProGGer) was long. It started off with my comments on Twitter about the need to not censor texts and instead use them to create dialogue. But the problem is that people too often don’t want to talk about […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 16, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  censorship, definitions, dialogue, Disagreement, fractured fandom, harassment

• Pop Culture Lens Episode 8: The Last Temptation of Christ

  

  In the eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I celebrate the Easter Sunday holiday by discussing the Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Not being religious scholars, we focus our discuss on the usefulness and even necessity for artists and audiences to engage in artistic and critical […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 8, 2015

  Communication Studies, Film Studies, Superheroes

  blasphemy, censorship, Christianity, crucifixion, dialogue, freedom of speech, God, intercultural communication, Islam, It’s a Wonderful Life, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar, Judaism, Judas, life affirming, Life of Brian, Mary Magdalene, Monty Python, political correctness, Respect, Satan, Superheroes, The Last Temptation of Christ, Universal