Tag: romance

• Backwards and in High Heels

  

  In the forty-second episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss the on-screen dancing duo Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. In this episode, the co-hosts analyze the star personas of the classic duo for how they represent issues regarding gender and power dynamics. They interrogate the now famous saying that Rogers […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 12, 2018

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  archetypes, backwards and in high heels, Classic Hollywood, dance, Fred Astaire, gender dyanmics, Ginger Rogers, grace, iconography, power dynamics, romance, style

• The Convergent Nature of Professional Wrestling

  

  UPDATED: Submissions Due Wednesday, September 24th Earlier this year, I wrote about my experience meeting Mick Foley, my new found interest in professional wrestling, and my initial academic thoughts on professional wrestling and Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment in particular. Since that time, I signed up for the WWE Network, the new online-only initiative recently launched by […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 29, 2014

  Uncategorized

  action, carnies, Comedy, convergence, convergent, drama, ECW, melodrama, polysemic, polyvalent, post-modernism, postmodern, Professional Wrestling, romance, sports entertainment, Superheroes, WCW, Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment, wrestling, WWE, WWE Network

• “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 was presented at the MPCA 2013 Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.  This is the longer version of the presentation, and thus it represents are full current thoughts on […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 18, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Industry Analysis Studies

  BBC, Condit, Cybermen, Daleks, David Tennant, Doctor Who, fake geek girl, fantasy, Fiske, fractured fandom, historical, horror, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, polysemic, polyvalent, rhetoric, romance, Russell T. Davies, science fiction, Steven Moffat, The Doctor, Time Lords