Tag: oppression

• V for Vendetta and Resisting Fascism

  

  In the thirty-ninth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I present a special episode as they compare and contrast the graphic novel V for Vendetta and its film adaptation. In this episode, we discussed how the two versions of the story reflected on the social, cultural, and historical periods in which […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 10, 2017

  Comics Studies, Film Studies, Superheroes

  anarchy, Bush, fascism, fear, nuclear war, oppression, panopticon, power, resistance, social media, superhero, surveillance, terrorism, Thatcher, Trump, V for Vendetta, war

• 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

• 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

• 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 literature on gender differences in game playing with two variations on the extant literature.  One of these was to include male and female assessments of game playing gratifications […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 28, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  Appearance, Challenge, digital games, fantasy, game design, game design preferences, game features, gender, gratifications, Immersion, interaction, oppression, situation, Situationality, Uses and Gratifications, women gamers, women players