In this essay, we explore how sensibilities of third-wave feminism are appropriated by and in the context of postmodern media such that they are commodified, reinscribed, and sold to audiences in an hegemonic fashion

Recent studies have suggested the peed to broaden our approaches to violence in children's programming. This paper uses the violence of "The Road Runner" cartoon series as a starting point for a mythico-rhetorical analysis of the message system contained in the cartoon. It explores how the animated short reenacts the myth of Sisyphus in the context of the post-World War II technological boom in the United States

The expansion of social scientific models for controlling crime and deviancy provided the context for both Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange and much of Foucault's writing. This essay examines how Foucault's writings and Kubrick's film lay out congruent critiques of social scientific and criminological attempts to define and constitute deviancy and subjectivity Foucaults texts and Kubrick's film ask us to remember the violence of our everyday existence and lo recognize our modern nightmares as portents of what lies along the path that we have followed