Focusing on the ‘dying mothers sub-genre’, the two authors ponder the meaning of Black women’s bodies’ absence in film.
Emily Ryalls
Emily Ryalls is an Associate Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies at California Polytechnic State University. Her research and teaching interests are in critical and cultural studies and feminist media studies. Ryalls’s research has explored issues of age, race, class, gender, ability and sexuality in media sites such as Never Have I Ever, Gossip Girl, 13 Reasons Why, and The Hunger Games. Her book, The Culture of Mean: Representing Victims and Bullies in Popular Culture, is the first sustained feminist critique of the contemporary bullying narrative in media. Her work has been published in several journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Communication, Culture & Critique. In her free time, she can be found watching Bravo TV and hanging with her dog, Henry.
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