Tag: Television
Regal Cinemas’ decision to close its theaters is the latest blow...
Matthew Jordan, Pennsylvania State University
A film industry in free fall just suffered its latest blow.
Cineworld Group, the owner of Regal Cinemas, announced that it...
Movie theaters are on life support – how will the film...
Matthew Jordan, Pennsylvania State University
Since the start of the pandemic, the film industry has been in free fall.
As deaths have continued to climb, so...
Watch more TV to understand the backlash against the women in...
Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University
Joe Biden’s promise to name a woman running mate has prompted familiar debates about gender and power.
Are these potential...
Zounds! What the fork are minced oaths? And why are we...
Kirk Hazen, West Virginia University
What in tarnation is “tarnation?” Why do people in old books exclaim “zounds!” in moments of surprise? And what could...
Why are sitcom dads still so inept?
Erica Scharrer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
From Homer Simpson to Phil Dunphy, sitcom dads have long been known for being bumbling and inept.
But it wasn’t...
Bob Dylan brings links between JFK assassination and coronavirus into stark...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
Over the past few weeks, the coronavirus has turned the country’s cultural spigot off, with sports suspended, museums closed and...
The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to...
Mike Conway, Indiana University
When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the...
4 reasons why we’ll never see another show like ‘Friends’
Martie Cook, Emerson College and Manuel Basanese, Emerson College
On Sept. 22, 1994, six telegenic 20-somethings frolicked in a fountain in front of credits that...
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...
