Head to http://squarespace.com/minale to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain! ➤ NEWSLETTER https://minale.substack.com/ ➤ PRODUCTION written by Mina Le edited by Charlee Reiff ➤ SOCIALS Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX ➤ CONTACT Business email: [email protected] ➤ SOURCES Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life by Shirley A. Fedorak (2009) Screen-Struck: The Invention of the Movie Girl Fan by Diana Anselmo-Sequeira (2015) https://www.jstor.org/stable/43653483 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n02/lauren-oyler/ha-ha!-ha-ha https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jennifer-lopez-ayo-edebiri-apologized-snl-podcast-comments-1235908800/ https://thewalrus.ca/what-we-lose-when-literary-criticism-ends/ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lizzo-vmas-speech-mtv-b2154726.html https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25/18516587/olivia-munn-go-fug-yourself-ariana-grande-blogs-michael-che-lizzo-pitchfork https://www.racked.com/2014/8/25/7579931/vanessa-friedman-nyt-interview https://harpers.org/archive/2019/04/like-this-or-die/ https://slate.com/culture/2012/08/writers-and-readers-on-twitter-and-tumblr-we-need-more-criticism-less-liking.html https://www.becker-digital.com/blog/digital-media-literacy-training https://bullandbearmcgill.com/beyond-the-blue-curtains-the-decline-of-media-literacy/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/04/19/uw-researchers-studying-how-to-make-online-arguments-productive/ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/07/dune-movie-part-two-book-messiah https://hum.byu.edu/breaking-the-academic-stigma-surrounding-pop-culture-studies https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/5/16/18618425/let-people-enjoy-things-criticism https://brendonholder.substack.com/p/peoples-princess-and-the-trap-of https://web.archive.org/web/20220907210540/https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/y3pv5k/what-does-it-mean-to-get-womand https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/fashion/what-is-anne-hathaway-doing-wrong.html https://www.thecut.com/2013/02/why-do-women-hate-hathaway-but-love-lawrence.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellendurney/jennifer-lawrences-comeback-and-reinvention https://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/challengers/19662 0:00 - intro 8:13 - is criticism dead? 19:10 - media illiteracy 25:26 - hating popular things 32:02 - being a woman