UC Berkeley Writings on Cultural Studies

The Burden of Representation in The Crown

Through the intellectual work of Antonio Gramschi and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The Host” (2006) maps hegemony and silence onto the Korean…

Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s most influential work till now (fight me), is a story that charms through disorder. It is an imperfectly…

But he’s the intellectual we need.

Why on earth is the Dude so obsessed with the rug? That’s the first question circling in my head when I watched the Coen brothers’ The Big…

Lorde’s “Mood Ring” as a reading of Wellness Culture

Experimental hip-hop artist JPEGMafia (Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks) stunned wide audiences in 2016 when he released “I Just Killed a Cop…

A woman’s seduction of love in the web of dreams turned into reality for man. The you in “I”.

How did Green Day become a symbol of protest culture through its song “American Idiot”?