By Madeline Lane-McKinley | “I was thirty years-old and my mother was still trying to get an abortion.” — Phyllis… Read more ‘Comediennes’ (III): Abortion Comedies
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | “I was thirty years-old and my mother was still trying to get an abortion.” — Phyllis… Read more ‘Comediennes’ (III): Abortion Comedies
By Johanna Isaacson | So far in this series on ‘comediennes,’ we have discussed the ways that the current boom… Read more ‘Comediennes’ (II): “You Might Like Comedies with a Strong Female Lead…”
By Justin Hogg | “Those crazy kids what will they do? They’re not a bit like me and you, with… Read more Annotated Playlist: Cover Songs
This roundtable features Johanna Isaacson and Madeline Lane-McKinley. | Bridesmaids of Comedy, Handmaidens of Capital MLM: The notion of… Read more ‘Comediennes’ (I)
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | “There are no meadows in the mind of the oppressed. There are only slums, factories, forced-labor… Read more Imagining the End of Capitalism in ‘Post-Occupy’ Dystopian Films: Part 1
This roundtable features Johanna Isaacson, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and Kenan Sharpe. See the first part of this roundtable here.| Part Two… Read more “Sense8:” Part Two
This roundtable features Johanna Isaacson, Madeline Lane-McKinley, and Kenan Sharpe. | Earlier this year, Netflix released a number of original… Read more “Sense8:” Part One
By Johanna Isaacson | In the midst of the Greek debt crisis and Syriza’s initial attempt to defend the country… Read more Life Versus Survival in “Tangerine”
‘Culture’ is not a field from which to harvest examples and symptoms. ‘Culture’ does not merely illustrate theories of political… Read more Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry