Tag: nostalgia

• Happy 25th Anniversary, Friends!

  

  Welcome back to a new season! For the fifty-first episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I are joined by our colleague and pop culture scholar Jennifer Dunn to discuss the 25th anniversary of one of the most successful sitcoms of all time: Friends (1994-2004). In this episode, the trio consider the impact of […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 12, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies, pop culture studies, Television Studies

  1990s, anniversary, Celebrities, Fandom, Friends, memes, nostalgia, online fan communities, online fandom, personas, sitcoms, The Rachel

• A Christmas Story Christmas Gift

  

  In this special episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast for the 2018 holiday season, Christopher Olson and I discuss the nostalgic appeal of A Christmas Story (1983) by Bob Clark and Jean Shepherd. In this episode, the co-hosts address the question of how the movie mixes nostalgia with anti-sentimentalism to create a realistic portrayal of Christmas […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 20, 2018

  Film Studies

  A Christmas Story, Children, Christmas, cult, Fandom, holidays, Make America Great Again, materialism, Mythmaking, nostalgia, symbolic convergence, unreliable narrator

• Pop Culture Lens on Transformers

  

  In the thirty-seventh episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome friend of the podcast Jef Burnham of CadaverCast to discuss the classic toy line, Transformers. In this episode, the three recall with fondness how these toys impacted their lives, but in doing so, they also focus on the relationship between nostaglia […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 7, 2017

  Anime/Manga, Television Studies

  Autobots, Beast Wars, brand, Bumblebee, Decepticons, Diaclone, Dinobots, fans, longevity, Marvel, Megatron, Michael Bay, nostalgia, Optimus Prime, Transcultural, Transformers, transnational

• Star Trek: Episode 12 of The Pop Culture Lens

  

  In the latest episode of our podcast, The Pop Culture Lens, Christopher and I are joined by good friend and Associate Professor at DePaul University, Paul Booth, to discuss the longevity of Star Trek. All three of us are huge Star Trek fans, and we had a rousing good conversation about why the series has […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 18, 2015

  Fandom, Television Studies

  Fandom, Leonard Nimoy, neo-sincerity, nostalgia, sincerity, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Original Series, William Shatner

• Pop Culture Lens Podcast: The X-Files

  

  In the sixth episode of our ongoing podcast, The Pop Culture Lens, Christopher Olson and I discuss my favorite television series of all time, The X-Files. I was a huge, huge, huge fan of this series; I can still recall sitting there when the show premiered, on that magical Friday night back in 1993, with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 28, 2015

  Fandom, Television Studies

  Adaptation, anti-vaxxers, birthers, Chris Carter, conspiracy theories, David Duchovny, fan art, fan fiction, Fandom, fans, Fox Network, Gillian Anderson, government mistrust, identity, nostalgia, reboot, rehash, revivial, supernatural, The X-Files, truthers, Xphiles

• Pop Culture Lens Podcast Episode 4: Bewitched (1964-1972)

  

  Our fourth episode for the Pop Culture Lens podcast is up, in which we are joined by friend of the podcast Megan Stemm-Wade to discuss the importance of the American TV sitcom Bewitched (1964-1972). In this episode, we cover many aspects of how the series was referencing the beginnings of second wave feminism while also […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 27, 2015

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Television Studies

  1960s, 1980s, 1990s, Agnes Moorehead, Bewitched, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dick Sargent, Dick York, Elizabeth Montgomery, Erin Murphy, Feminism, grrl power, housewife, I Dream of Jeannie, magic girl, nostalgia, second wave feminism, sexual revolution, suburban, superwoman, The Big Bang Theory, witch, women’s movement