Tag: women

• Der Dibuk: An Early Judaic Take on Exorcism

  

  Now it is time to watch one of the first exorcism movies, and one of the few Polish/Yiddish movies: Der Dibuk (1937). This is one of the few Yiddish language movies to come out of Poland, and it is based on a famous Polish play. Opening prolouge talking about the dybbuk, about how all spirits, […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 21, 2019

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Gender Studies

  dibuk, dybbuk, exorcism, exorcism cinema, Judaism, Poland, sexism, sexuality, women, Yiddish

• 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

• Women self-identifying as digital game addicts: Their interpretations of power

  

  [This paper comes from 2007 and was completed for a qualitative methodology course at Ohio State University under the amazing Patti Lather. She encouraged us to try different methods of communication research results; so I did a comic book, which you can see here.] What is digital game addiction? A number of approaches, theories, and […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 27, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  addiction, addicts, Brenda Dervin, causes of addiction, Cognitive, computer games, Dance Dance Revolution, digital games, disempowerment, empowerment, flow of power, Foucault, gaming, morality, Patti Lather, physiological, power, Sense-Making Methodology, Snood, Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Cart, Video games, women

• Problems with Perceptions in Fandom

  

  Part of the process of understanding the phenomenon of fractured fandom is to gather stories that thematically reveal its nature, such as my ongoing analysis of how My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans reacted to the feature film Equestria Girls and its soon-to-be sequel Rainbow Rocks.  The more stories we can gather, then the more […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 14, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies

  attitudes, beliefs, C2E2, cognitive dissonance, cosplay, cultural psychology, fake geek girl, Fandom, fans, feelings, geekdom, geeks, gender appropriateness, imposter syndrome, interpretations, Men, misogynistic extremism, misogyny, misperceptions, nerds, perceptions, Psychology, Sense-making, sexism, sexist, sexualization, social psychology, women

• Women and Video Game Addiction: Experimenting with research narratives

  This is an experimental research paper relaying women’s stories, gathered with Sense-Making Methodology interviews, of times they felt they were addicted to video games.  My analysis, and thus the framing for this paper’s “narrative”, focuses on the dynamics of power in and around the women’s lives during this period of addiction. This representation of the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 10, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games, Research Method(ology)s

  addiction, Qualitative Methodology, representation, research narratives, validity, Video games, women

• Female Fans From the Beginning

  I’m late in putting this out there, but it’s worth watching. This is a video from a Star Trek convention from 1973: that’s before the motion picture that reignited the franchise. So these are the true believers, those who followed the television series, and perhaps were starting with the short lived animated series. These were […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 8, 2011

  Fandom, Uncategorized

  fans, geeks, gender, nerds, Star Trek, women