Office Hours with Dr. C

What happens to stories we like when other fandoms get involved? Jeremiah McCoy takes us back to the '80s to talk about how our games, movies, shows, and comics have evolved together, interconnected by overlapping fandoms. 

Long-time player, game designer, and game commentator, Jeremiah McCoy joins Dr. C's office hours to talk with us about how aspects of our culture find themselves in TTTRPGs, and how aspects of TTTRPGs end up influencing much of our Pop Media. 

Dr. C and Barry discuss some of the complexity of representations of queerness in comic books because of the medium's history of various and problematic displays of queerness. 

Dr. C and Barry discuss John Kent, Clark Kent's son, and the revelation that he came out in his comic series as bi-sexual. With the latest outrage buzz about "woke" casting decisions for film and TV, and accusations of shallow tokenism in fictional stories, how do we interpret the motives of the media industries that produce the stories we consume?

With scholar and historian Julian Chambliss We discuss how Iron Man and other hero stories provides us meaningful ways to discuss what we see in future selves. 

Dr. Phillip Cunningham joins us again to talk about the super hero film genre, how long it's been going, where it's going, and are we tired of it yet. 

Joined again by Maxwell Paul, Professor of Ancient and Classical Studies, we talk about how white supremacist groups distort and appropriate  Greek and Roman history to manufacture claims of legitimacy. 

We are joined by Maxwell Paul, Professor of Ancient and Classical Studies, to talk about Greek mythology and how our stories today are affected by stories of our past. 

Dr. Phillip Cunningham talks to us about villains and some of the ways in which they might help or hinder positive representations of marginalized people. 

Is it possible to betray your fans when adapting a book into a TV series? What do creators owe to the established fanbase and how far can they deviate from source material? Let's end our discussion on Wheel of Time by discussing how well the adaptation was received and whether or not fans were betrayed by this new series.