Category: Film, Media, and Popular Culture

Spooky Halloween Books!

Spooky Halloween Books!

It’s spooky season and we have all the scary scholarly topics that’ll keep you shakin’ in your boots! We’ve got ghost stories from classical antiquity, we’ve got a classic collection… READ MORE

Top 10 Feminist Moments in Women’s Comedy

This Sunday, Ellen DeGeneres will host the 86th Academy Awards. DeGeneres and her career comprises a full chapter of Linda Mizejewski’s new book Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics. Other chapters… READ MORE

Author David Greven’s Must Watch Hitchcock

With the new series Bates Motel airing on A&E this spring, Hitchcock’s seminal film Psycho is re-emerging in popular culture. The show follows a young Norman Bates and his mother in a ‘contemporary prequel’… READ MORE