Reading List

• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

• The Conundrum of Masculinity: Hegemony, Homosociality, Homophobia and Heteronormativity by Chris Haywood, Thomas Johansson

• Pop Masculinities: The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music by Kai Arne Hansen

• Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag

• The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

• Mythologies by Roland Barthes

• "Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic” by Charlie Squire

“Barbie Answers Oppenheimer” by Anne Helen Peterson

• “Always Be Optimizing” by Jia Tolentino

• “All things keep getting better: Queer Eye and the makeover of American masculinity” by Naveen Minai

• Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant

• Goblin Mode: How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck by Mckayla Coyle 

• Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva 

• Sexual Subversions by Elizabeth Grosz

• Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz

• “Why Are We So Horny for Blue Aliens?” by Chloe Joe in Bustle

• Remediation: Understanding New Media by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin

• The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

• Outlander series by Diana Gaboldon

• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

• Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice Radway

• A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire by Janice Radway

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

• “From private pleasure to erotic - spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires” by Amber Davisson and Kyra Hunter

• Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

• “Exploring the Invisible: Astronomy in the 70s” by Eric J. Chaisson

• “Why Star Wars worked for everyone” by Lisa Yaszek and Kathleen Goonan

• “How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military” by Tanner Mirrlees

• “Hollywood blacklist” by Allison Perlman

• “Critiquing Mass Culture” from Dialectic of Enlightenment by Adorno and Horkheimer

• “George Lucas Wrote 'Star Wars' as a Liberal Warning, Then Conservatives Struck Back” by Ryan Teague Beckwith

• The Female Complaint by Lauren Berlant

• Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables by Sarah Whitfield

• The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau

• “Empty Gestures: Performative Utterances and Allyship,” by Kelsey Blair

• “The I in Internet,” from Trick Mirror: Reflections on self delusion by Jia Tolentino

• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

• Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

• Bargain Bin Rom-Com by Leena Norms

• “Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning” by Lawrence Hill

• “Towards a History of the Term Anti-Semitism” by David Feldman

• Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place by Jackson Bird

• “Young People Are Reading More Than You” by Lauren Ross and Hannah Withers

• “The Purity Chronicles” by Constance Grady

• “Girl Culture and the ‘Twilight’ Franchise” by Catherine Driscoll

• “Here’s how Dungeons & Dragons is changing for its new edition” by Griffin McElroy

• “Queering D&D” by Valerie Anne

• “Games, Storytelling, and Breaking the String” by Greg Costikyan

• Dread Trident: Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Modern Fantastic by Curtis D. Carbonell

• “Sweet Potato: A Review of Its Past, Present, and Future Role in Human Nutrition” by Adelia Bovell-Benjamin

• “Is There Such Thing as Food Imperialism?” by Payal Dhar

• “Culinary Imperialism and the Hierarchies of Food” by Joe Kobuthi

• Nomporn: Queer Viewers and the TV that Soothes Us by Karen Tongson

• “Why everyone on Gilmore Girls talks a mile a minute” by Constance Grady

• “The Body and the Brand: How Lycra Shaped America” by Kaori O’Connor, in Producing Fashion, edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk

• Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

• “Outdoor Voices Blurs the Lines Between Working Out and Everything Else” by Jia Tolentino

• “Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives” by Daniel Nehring and Anja Röcke

• “Activewear: The Uniform of the Neoliberal Female Citizen” by Julie Brice and Holly Thorpe, in Sportswomen’s Apparel Around the World, edited by Linda K. Fuller

• How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

• Saving Time by Jenny Odell

Duplan, Karine. “Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus.” Queer(ing) Urban Planning and Municipal Governance 8, no. 2 (2023): 187-196.

Jagger, Karuna. “Think Before You Pink: Stop the Distraction.” HuffPost. Last updated December 6, 2017. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/think-before-you-pink-sto_b_5910696.

Michael Levitt, Patrick Jarenwattananon, and Ari Shapiro, hosts. “Corporations scale back shows of Pride support amid anti-trans and anti-gay laws.” All Things Considered. June 14, 2023. https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/2023/06/14/1182238329/all-things-considered-for-june-14-2023.

Schulman, Sarah. “Israel and ‘Pinkwashing’.” The New York Times. November 22, 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/opinion/pinkwashing-and-israels-use-of-gays-as-a-messaging-tool.html.

Waxman, Olivia B. “How the Nazi Regime’s Pink Triangle Symbol was Repurposed for LGBTQ Pride.” TIME. May 31, 2018. https://time.com/5295476/gay-pride-pink-triangle-history/.https://time.com/5295476/gay-pride-pink-triangle-history/.

Boym, Svetlana. “Nostalgia and its Discontents.” The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Summer 2007). https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-uses-of-the-past/articles/nostalgia-and-its-discontents

Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 1989.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991.

Osgerby, Bill. “‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’: Romantic Nostalgia and the Early 1960s.” In The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture, edited by Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln, 207-222. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013.

Warner, Andrea. The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing. Toronto: ECW Press, 2024.

Cuddon, J. A. 2013. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Edited by Rafey Habib, Matthew Birchwood, Vedrana Velickovic, Martin Dines, and Shanyn Fiske. 5th ed. London: Penguin Books.

Hutcheon, Linda. 2012. A Theory of Adaptation. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.

Kunzelman, Cameron. 2023. “How the Last of Us Became the ‘Greatest Story’ Ever Told in Video Games.” Polygon. January 13, 2023. https://www.polygon.com/gaming/23552202/last-of-us-greatest-video-game-status.

“The Last of Us.” 2024. Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. April 14, 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us#.

Spence, Steve. 2024. “Adaptation, Violence, and Storytelling in The Last of Us.” Games and Culture, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241238771.

Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011. 

eD’Amore, Gina, and Danielle Blinka. 2023. “How to Become a Tupperware Sales Consultant: 12 Steps.” WikiHow. February 6, 2023. https://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Tupperware-Sales-Consultant. Accessed 30 May 2024.

Marie, Jane. 2024. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans. Atria Books.

“Pyramid Schemes.” 2024. New York State Attorney General. https://ag.ny.gov/pyramid-schemes. Accessed May 30, 2024.

Boutsalis, Kelly. 2021. "Indigenous Creatives Feel the Wind at their Backs: [the Arts/Cultural Desk]." New York Times, 2021 Aug. 10. https://login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/indigenous-creatives-feel-wind-at-their-backs/docview/2559580655/se-2. Accessed 9 Jul 2024.

Cheung, Kylie. 2021. “‘No More “Indian in the Cupboard”’: ‘Reservation Dogs’ Is the New Direction of Native Storytelling.” Salon. August 9, 2021. https://www.salon.com/2021/08/09/reservation-dogs-fx-hulu-taika-waititi-sterlin-harjo/.

Crey, Karrmen. Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 

Simonpillai, Radheyan. “Farewell to groundbreaking Reservation Dogs: ‘Nothing else out there like it.’” The Guardian 27 September 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/27/reservation-dogs-series-finale-fx-hulu-disney.