Tag: empowerment

• Mystery Science Theater 3000

  

  In a first, the forty-sixth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast finds friend of the podcast Ryan Schriml (@EalingCA) joining Christopher Olson and myself to discuss the original comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000. In this episode, the trio of Misties reflect on the legacy of the television show in spawning movie-riffing as a modern […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 15, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  empowerment, Fandom, media literacy, Misties, MST3k, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, riffing, RiffTrax

• Podcasts as Public Intellectualism

  

  In the thirty-eighth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and CarrieLynn Reinhard present an academic panel from the 2017 Central States Communication Association Conference. On this panel, CarrieLynn is joined by Melody Hoffmann of the podcast Femnist Killjoys, PhD and Molly Turner of the podcast Swipe Right on Molly & Thomas. W. […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 5, 2017

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  academics, empowerment, higher education, literacies, media literacy, podcasting, podcasts, promotion and tenure, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public scholarship, scholarship, The Pop Culture Lens

• Pop Culture Lens on Hello Kitty

  

  In the thirty-third episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I welcome friend of the podcast Norma Jones to discuss the venerable pop culture brand that is Hello Kitty. In this episode, Norma and I position Hello Kitty not only as a pop icon but as a heroic […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 4, 2017

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Text Analysis

  communication, dialogue, empowerment, Feminism, Hello Kitty, heroes, Identification, inspiration, Japan, Japanese, kawaii, multiculturalism, omoiyari, perspective-taking, pluralism, Sanrio

• 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

• The Pop Culture Lens on Deltron 3030

  

  I grew up in rural Northeastern Wisconsin. On a golf course. Country music was played in our high school gym’s fitness center. Tractors would sometimes keep you from moving at good speed on county roads. Winters were not the only thing smothered in white. I grew up at the time when hip-hop and rap cultures […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 25, 2016

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Text Analysis

  Afrofuturism, Black Lives Matter, colonialism, convergence, Del the Funky Homosapien, Deltron 3030, diaspora, double consciousness, empowerment, gangster rap, Hegemony, hip-hop, post-colonialism, science fiction

• 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

• Feminist Tensions in The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part 2

  

  At the Midwest Popular Culture Association‘s 2014 conference, Chris and I presented the first analysis from our exorcism cinema project. The presentation is titled: Feminist tensions in exorcism cinema: Case study analysis and comparison of The Last Exorcism and The Last Exorcism Part II. What follows are the notes for the presentation, which constitute an […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 6, 2014

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

  Abalam, abjection, Aliens, Barbara Creed, Bible, Carnival of Souls, Carol Clover, Carrie, Cat People, Christianity, Constantine, demonic, demons, empowerment, Eve, evil spirits, exorcism, exorcist, Feminism, found footage, gender, horror movies, monstrous-feminine, Noel Carroll, oppression, possession, Rosemary’s Baby, Satan, sexuality, The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, women

• Sir Anthony Hopkins Performs an Exorcism in The Rite

  

  Sir Anthony Hopkins is one of those interesting actors. Best known as an incredible actor throughout his entire career, sometimes he will do movies that are, for lack of better words, slumming it – doing a movie for a paycheck. Freejack. Alexander. The Edge. The Wolfman. Red 2. To be fair, I cannot really blame […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 17, 2014

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Anthony Hopkins, Baal, Catholic Church, cats, Colin O’Donoghue, demonic possession, demons, Devil, empowerment, exorcism, exorcist, Freejack, mules, sexuality, The Devil Inside, The Exorcist, The Rite, toads, Vatican, voice, witches

• Women self-identifying as digital game addicts: Their interpretations of power

  

  [This paper comes from 2007 and was completed for a qualitative methodology course at Ohio State University under the amazing Patti Lather. She encouraged us to try different methods of communication research results; so I did a comic book, which you can see here.] What is digital game addiction? A number of approaches, theories, and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 27, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  addiction, addicts, Brenda Dervin, causes of addiction, Cognitive, computer games, Dance Dance Revolution, digital games, disempowerment, empowerment, flow of power, Foucault, gaming, morality, Patti Lather, physiological, power, Sense-Making Methodology, Snood, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Cart, Video games, women