Tweet It’s always nice when gay progress is wrapped in a 6’2 muscle-bound package, as many viewers recently experienced when handsome actor Maxx Brawer graced the set of TBS’ sitcom Are We There Yet? in an episode that has the black gay blogosphere buzzing and that left me hopeful – but also wanting more. In [...]
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The Jock on ‘Are We There Yet?’: Progress, Sort Of
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 10th, 2011
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Who Made It and Why? A Market-Centered Critique of Representation
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 7th, 2011
Tweet For years I and other scholars have noticed a problem in media studies: too many critiques don’t take production and marketing into account. Last week, the Internet gave me case #4,125: the gay Dorito’s “Super Bowl” ads.
On Embracing the Burden of Representation
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 29th, 2010
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting! I recently had a conversation with a black director who fretted not putting any men of color in his film project. As much as he wanted to, he couldn’t find anyone to play the role. In the end he told me: “I can’t carry the whole black community on [...]
Is Kurt Patient-Zero for the ‘Glee’ Backlash?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 30th, 2010
Tweet Follow-up to my post yesterday. Full post at AfterElton. UPDATE: Ratings for this week were up 13%, from last week’s 20% crash, suggesting most users came back and much of the drop came from young people going home for the holidays. ORIGINAL: If the first season of Fox’s hit show Glee kept Kurt Hummel [...]
ABC Troubles the Gay Marriage — It’s About Time
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 8th, 2010
Tweet Scotty’s a Cheater? Thanks, ABC! No, Seriously! Gay fans of Brothers & Sisters are probably breathing a sigh of relief after the last two episodes of the ABC drama. Why? It’s not necessarily because beloved characters Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys)and Scotty Wandell (Luke Macfarlane) are probably going to avoid an adultery-spurred break-up. It’s because [...]
Why Do I Hate Steve Zahn’s Davis in ‘Treme’?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 26th, 2010
Tweet Davis checks out a local stripper. Thanks to Racialicious for reposting this and to The Altantic and Watching Treme for linking. UPDATE: Lots of great comments with more information I didn’t know, in the comments section. UPDATE (5/9): In the most recent episode, Davis got his butt kicked for saying n*gga in a bar, [...]
‘Damages’ Finale: Weakness at the Heart of Power
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 20th, 2010
Tweet Note: Spoilers and recap below UPDATE (7/19/10): Damages has been saved by DIRECTV! Two more, 10-episode, seasons will air starting 2011, but only on DIRECTV, not FX. Lower rated than DIRECTV’s other rescue operation, Friday Night Lights, I suppose exclusivity was the only way it would happen. (DIRECTV shared Friday Night Lights with NBC). [...]
In Adult Video Online, Does Diversity Sell?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 7th, 2010
Tweet I’m assisting a lecture tomorrow on the adult entertainment industry for a course at Penn, so I thought I’d write a quick blog. Note: most links NSFW. Thanks to Queerty, Fleshbot, MOC Blog and Racialicious for linking. Sean Cody, the king (or among the kings) of amateur gay, and gay-for-pay, video online, has recently [...]
On Cable, Long Live the Anti-Hero
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 29th, 2010
Tweet Originally posted at SpliceToday. Comment there! When The Sopranos concluded in 2007, a number of media critics signalled “the end of an era” where television shows looked for complicated “heros,” or “anti-heros,” to helm television dramas. Of course, many more critics credited The Sopranos with the revival of serialized, “quality television,” television as cinema, [...]
White Supremacists Are Back (On Television)!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 20th, 2010
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting this! This post suffers from a disease characteristic of most lifestyle/entertainment news: two’s a coincidence, three’s a trend. Blame it on my past as a reporter. It’s an illness not easily cured. I don’t know precisely what caused it, but white supremacy is back on television! Of course, by [...]
