Tag: The Pop Culture Lens

• Podcasts for Public Intellectualism: The Pop Culture Lens and public discourse

  

  Written by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson for CSCA 2017. Our podcast The Pop Culture Lens emerged from a mutual desire to engage in more public intellectualism and public scholarship—to engage various publics with ideas from the humanities and social sciences to demonstrate how these abstractions can have concrete impacts on people’s everyday […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 15, 2018

  Higher Education, Internet Studies

  media literacy, personal broadcasting, podcasting, Pop culture, pop culture studies, Public discourse, public engagement, public intellectualism, public intellectuals, public scholars, The Pop Culture Lens

• The Pop Culture Lens on Mental Health

  

  For this special episode of The Pop Culture Lens, Christopher J. Olson (Seems Obvious to Me) and I address a question: are representations of mental health issues in pop culture helpful? Our answers delve into the many different mental health issues represented in television and film, from bipolar disorder and depression to mental health facilities and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 11, 2017

  Film Studies, Television Studies

  addiction, All That Jazz, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, BoJack Horseman, Borderline Personality Disorder, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Depression, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fight Club, Girl Interrupted, House MD, Jessica Jones, Lady Dynamite, Maron, mental health, Monk, Obsessive-compulsive Disorder, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Pi, popular culture, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Rainman, Schizophrenia, Shock Corridor, Split, The Fisher King, The Pop Culture Lens, What Dreams May Come

• 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 Akira

  

  In the twenty-fifth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome friend of the podcast, Charley Reed, to discuss one of the most influential anime feature films of all time, Akira (1988). Charley is a tremendous fan of the anime and manga, as is Chris, and we wanted to talk bout […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 4, 2016

  Anime/Manga, Fandom, Film Studies

  Akira, anime, atomic bomb, dystopia, generations, imperialism, Japanese culture, Japanese history, manga, otaku, post-apocalpyse, The Pop Culture Lens, youth culture

• The Pop Culture Lens Episode 16: The Exorcist (1973)

  

  As I have been writing about for awhile now, Chris and I are working on a book project that explores the tensions depicted in exorcism cinema. That is, we are analyzing films that depict possession and exorcism to understand what is being said about the world through those representations. Part of this analysis has been […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 29, 2015

  Film Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality

  Abby, abjection, blasphemy, Blatty, exorcism, Exorcist II: The Heretic, exploitation, Father Karras, Father Merrin, Feminism, Friedkin, Grace: The Possession, monstrous-feminine, parody, Possessed, possession, post-colonialism, queer theory, racism, Regan, Repossessed, Seytan, slashers, The Dybbuk, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Last Exorcism, The Last Exorcism Part II, The Pop Culture Lens, The Possession, the uncanny, Viral marketing