[The eighth and final in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]“Under Pressure” Guest Writer: Corey K. Creekmur (University of Iowa)Written and Directed by Vince Gilligan“It’s all over now, Baby Blue” --...

[On September 18, 2013, the University of Illinois sponsored a one-day conference, New Deal for the Humanities, organized by Gordon Hutner and Feisal Mohamed and co-sponsored by several campus units including the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory...

[The seventh in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]"Story Land"Written by: Sean O'Sullivan (Ohio State University) In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there is an amusement park called...

[The sixth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]"Dead to Rights"Written by: Tedra Osell Up to the end of the opening credits--twenty minutes in--this week's episode of Breaking Bad still looked like a 70s Western, mostly open skies and gorgeous landscapes littered with...

“This Land Is Our Land”Written by: Deanna K. Kreisel (University of British Columbia)There is a clear and dramatic break between the first two seasons of “The Killing” taken together—the “Who Killed Rosie Larsen?” mystery—and season three, the “Pied Piper” case. This break represents...

[The fifth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]Return to the Western: Genre and Origins Written by: Scott Balcerzak (Northern Illinois University)Last week’s episode of Breaking...

[On September 6, 2013 the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory held the symposium "Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture at 25 II.” Below are remarks by closing roundtable participant, Eleanor Courtemanche (...

[The fourth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]“An Old Yeller Type Situation”Written by: Ina Rae Hark (University of South Carolina)Breaking Bad episode titles sometimes relate...

[House of Cards is a political drama produced by Netflix. It is an adaptation of a 1990's BBC series of the same name. Clytemnestra is a career woman in a major US city with an academic past.]Leadership Development TV-Style (Some Reflections on Netflix's House of Cards)I met...

[The third in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]Untrue ConfessionsWritten by: Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)“Thank you for your honesty,” Sklyer (Anna Gunn) says...

[The second in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]"Treading Lightly and Staying Quiet: The Calm Before the Storm"Written by: Lysa Rivera (Western Washington University)If last week was all...

[The first in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]"Bad Breaks"Written by: Corey K. Creekmur (University of Iowa)The final half of the final season of ...

[Top of the Lake (2013) is a 7-episode Sundance channel original series which has been available for streaming on Netflix and is airing in six parts on BBC2 beginning July 13. The below post by guest writer ...

[The twelfth in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 6 of AMC's Mad Men, posted in collaboration with the publication of...

[The eleventh in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 6 of AMC's Mad Men, posted in collaboration with the publication of...