A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
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Kelly Daniela Norris experiments with the limits of reproducibility of the historical avant-garde using Moholy-Nagy’s script, Dynamik der Gross-Stadt (1920)
Amelia Ann Barrera makes the case that anime is political, and that a handful of current series are quietly taking apart the myth of a mono-cultural Japan.
Thomas Cooper expands on ways fans create new texts through the use of metagaming in early Pokemon games.
Helen Piper examines how The Long Shadow uses space and place to reconfigure the fact-based crime drama genre and more ethically center victims and survivors.
Diane Flores Ruiz explores the ways in which the modern visual culture of anti-Blackness reinforces state power.
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche explore the complexities of setting up the Health Humanities Lab's East Marshall Street Well (EMSW) Oral History and Memorialization Project that grapples with memorialization and education around historical racist violence and stolen remains. This project proposes a kind of humanities practice that wrestles with unresolved histories that inform the present.
This article examines how the global audience for the livestream of BTS The Comeback Live: Arirang was shaped by the varying goals of BTS's label, HYBE, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and Netflix.
Lauren Cramer examines what constitutes legitimate engagement with intellectual culture in the TikTok age of critical discourse.
Compared to Netflix, Disney+ has not experienced as much success with its original Korean series. Nonetheless, the global streaming platform has continuously invested in the production of Korean content, releasing a steady lineup of original series that spans different genres, especially crime thrillers.
Dr. Crystal Anderson explores the exciting global career trajectory of the Queen of K-pop, BoA, whose music adapts to find success in a foreign market.
