Frank Herbert’s novel and Denis Villeneuve’s film borrow from Middle Eastern cultures, but what does that really mean?
Category Archive: Popular culture
The history of television, Jeff Bridges, and Amazon’s propaganda machine.
Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix series raises a vexing question: even if we agree that representation matters, what counts as good representation?
Maher’s criticisms of comic books and the individuals who read them aren’t novel, insightful, or even recent. He’s just the latest in a long line of moralizers and cultural critics who’ve ascribed various faults in American society to the pedestrian, easily-mockable comic book.
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.
I pledge to laugh At the Flag Of the United States of America And to the lies for […]
As for many American boys, sports were a staple of my life growing up in the 90s and […]
Colin Kaepernick’s recent gesture has shaken up the sports world because he has refused to take part in […]