In the fortieth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I present a special episode for the 2017 holiday season by discussing the morality…… Read more “Pop Culture Lens on A Christmas Carol”
Tag: fantasy
Pop Culture Lens: Dungeons and Dragons
In the twenty-fourth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I welcome friend of the podcast, psychologist in training, and…… Read more “Pop Culture Lens: Dungeons and Dragons”
Exploring the Trauma of the Spanish Civil War at the Intersection of Fantasy and Reality
Guillermo del Toro — when he isn’t thrilling us with hellboys or kaiju — has given us some of the most intensely personal and fantastically dark films…… Read more “Exploring the Trauma of the Spanish Civil War at the Intersection of Fantasy and Reality”
“I AM the Doctor.”: The Historical Trajectory of Doctor Who
“I AM the Doctor.”: Polysemic rhetorical flexibility and non-traditional audience reception in Doctor Who By Christopher J. Olson, DePaul University & CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Dominican University This paper…… Read more ““I AM the Doctor.”: The Historical Trajectory of Doctor Who”
Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender
(The literature review for this paper can be found in this previous post.) Study overview As indicated above, our purpose for this study was to enter the…… Read more “Digital game players’ preferences: Analysis of situation and gender”
Representations of Women in Japanese and American Pop Culture
(From a 2004 paper on a cross-cultural examination of the superheroine) In their article on children and role models, Anderson and…… Read more “Representations of Women in Japanese and American Pop Culture”
