This morning, I came across two letters to the editor from the Pittsburgh: Post-Gazette, both of which concern one of my favorite stars/dancers/entertainers, Gene Kelly.
The first letter comes from an 81-year old man who wonders why the town of Pittsburgh, where Kelly was born and ran a dance studio with …
In his column “Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis,” NY Times film critic A.O. Scott considers the current state of Generation X as seen by popular culture. Through an analysis of three texts released in 2010 — the novel The Ask (Sam Lipsyte) and the movies Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink) and Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) — Scott summarizes what contemporary society apparently thinks about those of us born between 1965-1980
This paper was originally presented in the “News and Satire” area of the Film & History Conference, Dallas, TX (November 8-12, 2006).
The National Annenberg Election Survey of 2004 finds that the average age of viewers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is 35, their average income is $67,000, and they …
My text here won’t be long since it’s much more beneficial to let the video below do the talking.
Last night, for the second time in the history of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart embodied Fox News’s Glenn Beck (Stewart’s first (shorter) parody may be found here). For a full 15 …
I’ve been fascinated by generational studies ever since my husband brought home PowerPoint slides from “Introduction to Generations in the Workplace,” a presentation he attended about 6 or 7 years ago while working at the University of North Texas. According to my husband, the workshop was designed to introduce Student …
On Saturday, Media Matters tweeted about this year’s Miss America pageant:
Noted sexist Rush Limbaugh is judging the Miss America pageant tonight on TLC: http://ow.ly/12c55.
Follow the tweet’s accompanying link, and you’ll find an article from Marcia Kuntz and Julie Millican, vice president and senior researcher at Media Matters for America, a …
