Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix
explores how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other social categories are represented in …

“American Monsters” analyzes the satanic panic, an episode of national hysteria that
dominated the media throughout the 1980s. It involved hundreds of accusations that devil …

I analyze the popular television comedy Psych to examine the affective dimensions of one
type of post-race comedy. Psych, an interracial buddy narrative, adapts the assimilationist …

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting,
when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and …

Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from
playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary …

Native Americans and race scholars have argued that the media construct and perpetuate
racist notions of tribal peoples through images and discursive practices that portray them in …

Entertainment programming such as the television satire The Office relies upon audience
members' understanding of both Western gender norms and stereotypes as well as …

This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are
these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they …

This study engages in current scholarly debates regarding third-wave versus postfeminist
media icons through an analysis of Tina Belcher, the eldest daughter in the animated series …

Unruly Audience explores grassroots appropriations of familiar media texts from film,
television, stand-up comedy, popular music, advertising, and tourism. Case studies probe …