popular culture
The success of simulcasts means that fans can expect to see more creative takes on traditional sports, including SpongeBob SquarePants calling Saturday’s NFL Wild Card game.
Sixty years after the debut of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer stop-motion animated classic, the yearly flood of holiday films can thank the small reindeer for their success.
ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ lecturer Marla Schulz examines the Broadway-musical-turned-film Wicked and how the movie musical endures.
Looking at two of Disney’s most famous female characters, Anna and Elsa, with a critical eye with CU lecturer Shannon Leone.
In a recently published paper, ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'
In advance of Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star game, ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.
ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ chair of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts shares insights on Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece ‘doomsday sex comedy’ and why the film is more relevant than ever.
ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ theatre professor Bud Coleman reflects on Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer-winning play and why it’s a story that still has meaning.
Upon the 65th anniversary of the record label, ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new.’
Sixty years after The Beatles’ first appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ ÎÞÂëÊÓÆµ historian Martin Babicz reflects on their impact on U.S. culture and politics.