Author Archives: Meghan R

Female Voices on Female Representations

Since I started this project as a way to start conversations about the different ways that females – especially young adult females – are portrayed in popular culture, I wanted to get more voices on my blog. I asked eight females on campus the same question: what is your overall impression of the way females […] Continue reading

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New Addiction: Friday Night Lights

The lure of Netflix is always stronger when you have a pile of important stuff to do – like that time I was abroad in England and had three days to write two final papers, but decided that watching the entire first season of New Girl before I left the country was equally important. Thanksgiving […] Continue reading

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On Guys and Sex and the City

Since I’ve been reviewing TV shows/books based on representations of females from the perspective of twenty-something female, I thought it would be interesting to talk to a twenty-something male about his perspective on a stereotypically female show. At the risk of seeming repetitive, I chose a show that I’ve already written about so I could […] Continue reading

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“Cleopatra: A Life” by Stacy Schiff

My senior seminar is on the subject of biographies; all semester, we’ve been reading a different biography each week (3,294 pages worth of biographies, to be more precise). The last biography we had to read was Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life. Apart from seeing bits and pieces of the movie-version with Elizabeth Taylor, my conceptions […] Continue reading

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Girls: “I may be the voice of my generation”

Confession: I watch Girls without putting too much extra thought into it, other than wondering how it can possibly be so relatable in the subtlest of ways. So, I decided to re-watch the first episode of season one and give it some more thought – it’s crazy how much I’ve missed. At the end of […] Continue reading

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American Horror Story: Coven

I was beyond excited when I found out that season three of American Horror Story was going to be about witches in New Orleans. American Horror Story always has a lot going on – it’s twisted, disturbing, terrifying, and makes its viewers intentionally uncomfortable by approaching issues about cultural boundaries. American Horror Story: Coven doesn’t […] Continue reading

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Sex and the City 3?

Remember Sex and the City? Remember the excruciatingly long first follow-up film during which very little happens apart from watching Carrie spiral dramatically into several different phases of self-pity thanks to Big ditching her at the alter (I’m so surprised, said no SATC fan ever). No one has forgotten the casually racist sequel, where the […] Continue reading

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Public V. Private and Student Authority

The Internet has transformed from a space primarily used to retrieve information to a network for advancing and engaging such information. Moreover, the web has become a space to share ideas; it gives way to open participation, interaction and creative … Continue reading

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More than what we see

When I declared as an American Studies major, my advisor told me that no one would ever want to watch a movie with me again – and he was right. As an American Studies and English double major, I am … Continue reading

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Navigating the Blogosphere

Accessibility to the Internet is virtually unlimited. Anyone, anywhere is able to create a blog and write what’s on their mind, regardless of authority, skill or credibility. So how do we sift out what is worth reading, and what offers … Continue reading

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