Tag: Television
Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both...
Brad Bushman, The Ohio State University and Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
In what appears to be a tragic...
How Netflix affects what we watch and who we are –...
David Beer, University of York
Netflix’s dystopian Korean drama Squid Game has become the streaming platform’s biggest-ever series launch,...
The science of product placements – and why some work better...
Beth L. Fossen, Indiana University
In “The Variant,” an episode from the Disney+ hit streaming show “Loki,” it’s tough...
In 2020, TV and film still couldn’t get abortion right
Stephanie Herold, University of California, San Francisco and Gretchen Sisson, University of California, San Francisco
According to decades of research, abortion is an incredibly common...
In ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ and beyond, chess holds up a mirror...
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at...
100 years ago, the first commercial radio broadcast announced the results...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
Only 100 people were listening, but the first broadcast from a licensed radio station occurred at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2,...
More penises are appearing on TV and in film – but...
Peter Lehman, Arizona State University
If you’ve noticed an uptick of male frontal nudity in TV and in movies in recent years, you’re onto something.
In...
Regal Cinemas’ decision to close its theaters is the latest blow...
Matthew Jordan, Penn State
A film industry in free fall just suffered its latest blow.
Cineworld Group, the owner of Regal Cinemas, announced that it would...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
