popular culture
- The success of simulcasts means that fans can expect to see more creative takes on traditional sports, including SpongeBob SquarePants calling Saturday’s NFL Wild Card game.
- Sixty years after the debut of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion animated classic, the yearly flood of holiday films can thank the small reindeer for their success.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ lecturer Marla Schulz examines the Broadway-musical-turned-film Wicked and how the movie musical endures.
- Looking at two of Disney’s most famous female characters, Anna and Elsa, with a critical eye with CU lecturer Shannon Leone.
- In a recently published paper, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'
- In advance of Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star game, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ chair of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts shares insights on Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece ‘doomsday sex comedy’ and why the film is more relevant than ever.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ theatre professor Bud Coleman reflects on Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer-winning play and why it’s a story that still has meaning.
- Upon the 65th anniversary of the record label, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new.’
- Sixty years after The Beatles’ first appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Æƽâ°æÏÂÔØ historian Martin Babicz reflects on their impact on U.S. culture and politics.