Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, located in Ankara, Turkey. She earned her Ph.D. in the social and cultural history of the modern United States from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (2005). Her research interests include the history of women's health; gender, sexuality, and reproduction; and media studies. Dr. Tunc has published on topics as diverse as American eugenics, sexuality and film, reproductive technologies, and breast cancer. “Casablanca provides twenty-first-century Americans with an oasis of hope in a desert of arbitrary cruelty and senseless violence.” As we approach the sixty-fifth anniversary of Casablanca (1942), it is clear that[…]
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Normalizing “deviant” genders and bodies is just one of many tropes in Wood’s complex camp classic.
Essays · Historical & Epic · Reviews
Parker’s “ode to bathroom humor” plumbs surprising depths Contemporary American comedy evades realistic treatment of social issues, opting instead for escape from these issues. That the bulk of racial representation[…]
