M/C Journal

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. M/C Journal is a fully blind-, peer-reviewed academic journal, open to submissions from anyone. We take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organised around a one-word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or more guest editors with a particular interest in that theme. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles.

Current Issue

Vol. 27 No. 3 (2024): barbie

Edited by Jo Coghlan, Lisa J. Hackett, and Huw Nolan

Imabe by Eloise Nolan and Huw Nolan

Published: 2024-06-11

Editorial

  • Barbie Imagining and Interrogating a Popular Culture Icon

    Jo Coghlan, Lisa J. Hackett, Huw Nolan

Feature

  • Do-It-Yourself Barbie in 1960s Australia

    Donna Lee Brien

Articles

  • Saving the Planet with Barbie? Ecological Perspectives on a Plastic Doll

    Eva Boesenberg
  • From Doll to Screen Investigating PR and Marketing Techniques in the Barbie Movie's Global Success

    Emma Carroll Hudson
  • Unveiling Ken The Healing Journey of a Manic Pixie Dream Monster

    Revna Altiok
  • Race and Orientalism in the History of Asian Barbies

    Rachel Wang
  • “Are You Watching The Godfather?” Patriarchal Approaches to Fandom in Barbie

    Kaela Joseph, Tanya Cook, Alena Karkanias
  • Unboxing the New Barbie (Pink) Frames of Melodrama in Barbie (2023)

    Eli S
  • To Be a Barbie Is to Perform Gender Performativity and Compulsory Heterosexuality in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023)

    Anna Temel
  • Barbieland Greta Gerwig’s Asexual Utopia

    Anna Maria Broussard
  • “I’m a Barbie Girl” Exploring the Complications and Contradictions of Barbie’s Construction of Femininity

    Daisy McManaman
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