Production, Race, and Style

February 2, 2018 Margaux Natiello

Branding and Commodification

McDonald’s is an iconic brand and its “golden arches” are often the first thing that comes to mind, when someone

February 2, 2018 Julia Marcellino

Ouellette Reading

This quote immediately made me think of Khloe Kardashian’s fairly new show called Revenge Body. The premise is that she

February 1, 2018 Charlotte Stone

Ouellette Reading

In Reality Television and Human Capital, Ouellette discusses the concept of homo economicus and how that translates into modern reality

February 1, 2018 Kim Egizi

Branding

As Banet-Weiser discusses, brands have developed from a mode of commerce and exchange to a way of standing out from

February 1, 2018 Carolyn Chambers

Commodification

I created this post to remind us that society’s view of beauty and perfection has been created under false pretenses.

January 29, 2018 Charlotte Stone

Plastic Representation

In “In the Time of Plastic Representation,” Kristen J. Warner talks about the complex issue of adequate representation in film

January 29, 2018 Keith Oddo

Pride

“Something else besides the increase in sympathetic representations of Arab and Muslim Americans in the U.S. media after 9/11 puzzled

January 28, 2018 Destiny Riley

Realizing Representation

“For us to receive people, events, and even future possibilities as meaningful and real, they need a symbolic presence, something

January 28, 2018 Alexa Mendieta

Plastic Representation

Richard Branson Reveals the Real Purpose for Barack Obama’s Oval Office Red Button As I was reading “In the

January 28, 2018 Joseph Collins

Creating Misrepresentations

Representation discusses how one word can symbolize a variety of qualities and characteristics, but intersectionality discusses how these representations can