You’re hip-deep in trying to get the second season of your podcast off the ground and focused on improving your audience reach. Your listenership for season one was either disappointing, not too shabby, or surprising, or maybe even as expected, …
Month: June 2019
“ICONography” Smartly Dissects Myths and Realities of Historical Icons
A place is not just defined by its geographical borders and its people, but by their memories, histories, and stories—its icons. An icon, real or imagined, is not just a religious work of art, but any person, object, concept, or …
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“My Story to Tell”: Emily VanDerWerff on Nuance, Ambition, and Trans Storytelling — Wil Williams Reviews
https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=arden-6B5X5Q&ge=s1!ea4fd Emily VanDerWerff is one of the foremost reasons I do what I do. A longtime pop culture critic, Emily VanDerWerff was one of the founders of The AV Club‘s TV Club, and was many peoples’ introduction to how …
The Subversion and Reclamation of Tropes are Both Rebellions
The word “trope” has come to indicate a literary or rhetorical device or motif in creative works, usually ones that propel plot, character development, or fictional design. This can be something as (relatively) harmless as Love At First Sight, a …
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