Peak TV, meet Peak Playback. Looking back on the chaotic landscape of television in 2019, the staff had a lot of opinions. So we’re bringing back…
Peak TV, meet Peak Playback. Looking back on the chaotic landscape of television in 2019, the staff had a lot of opinions. So we’re bringing back…
In which Erica, Dillon, and special guest Laura react to the smash sensation Cats! Weird eroticism! A flexible Dame Judy Dench! Macavity! Which podcaster will be…
A brief note: this article is a categorization of the theoretical work of these theorists, not of the theorists themselves. We might think of it…
In which we join Dillon Mitchell and Erica Moulton in a discussion of the already-iconic Christmas-themed Romantic Comedy™️ Last Christmas. Come for the film analysis,…
HBO’s promotion of the new series Watchmen, which premiered on October 20, features an array of strategies and media objects, from the commonplace to the…
Playback Video Editor Erica Moulton explores the different ways that Shakespeare has been mediated through Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” speech, on stage,…
Playback is happy to present more post-conference processing, for all you fan and audience scholars out there who were unable to attend the Fan Studies Network…
This past week in my class on race & media, I led a discussion about industrial discourses surrounding racial casting. We read Kristen Warner’s (2015)…
Earlier this week, Martin Scorsese elaborated on comments he made in October about Marvel films and the contemporary film industry. In the prime op-ed real…