Recently, the resurrection of authoritarian tendencies in the form of populist movements has
conscripted the fascistic aesthetic for its purposes. The rise of populism coincides with the …

Family portrayals in entertainment media represent a significant concern for both media and
family communication scholars. These fictional families can model both effective and …

Reality television programs have enjoyed widespread popularity among American television
audiences for the last several decades. The genre encompasses a wide range of subject …

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream
discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual …

This chapter explores fatherhood and adult masculinity in the Swedish children's film series
about Sune (1993–2021). The Sune films showcase a cultural shift towards child …

Die Basis der vorliegenden Studie bilden eine Befragung von 500 Vätern, 250 Müttern und
250 Jugendlichen, sowie Fokusgruppen und eine Aufarbeitung des Forschungsstandes …

This chapter examines the gendered representations of fatherhood in the American
television series Desperate Housewives. The characters in the show demonstrate WKH …

Concerned about the recent rise of global populism, Ulf Mellström emphasized the need for
critical attention to the “politics of masculinity and masculinity politics,” which constitute a …

The purpose of this paper was to engage in a queer theoretical reading of the HBO original
comedy series Flight of the Conchords. We examine the ways that assumptions of …

In the United States, questions of masculinity have long informed popular culture, media
discourse, and the products that emerge from both. Just as masculinities arise through …