Regular features:
Film Reviews
Mysteries
Teen Movies
Classics
Wild Card
Television Reviews
Black Sails
Manhattan
The Royals
The Vampire Diaries
Vikings
Whitechapel (seasons 1-3 reviewed; final season will be covered pending availability)
Game of Thrones reviews will not be continued at this time due to lack of interest.
Articles and essays (of the non-review variety) on film, television, and popular culture will appear occasionally.
Publisher
Robin Franson Pruter is a pop culture enthusiast and recovering academic. She is now in the process of making amends for egregious use of esoteric neologisms and for passing around scholarly journal articles at social gatherings. She studied screenwriting in film school and really plans to finish that degree someday. Luckily, she has three other master’s degrees collecting dust on her wall. She obsesses over teen media—having, in the past, argued for the social and cultural relevance of girl group music, taught college courses in teen films and Harry Potter, and delivered conference presentations on the latter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (An article of hers can be found in Terminus: Collected Papers on Harry Potter, 7-11 August 2008 available through Amazon.)
Guest Writers
Robert Pruter is a librarian and writer, mainly on soul music and sports. For 27 years, he was a social sciences editor of New Standard Encyclopedia. He has written three books, Chicago Soul, Doo Wop: The Chicago Scene, The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880-1930; additionally, he edited The Blackwell Guide to Soul Music (all books available from Amazon). He has contributed articles to periodicals including Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois Entertainer, The Reader, Juke Blues, Living Blues,Chicago History, Journal of Sport History, and College Football Historical Society. Reference articles include contributions to The Encyclopedia of Chicago, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, African Americans in Sports, American National Biography, Encyclopedia of the Blues, Encyclopedia Britannica, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. For a more complete list of credits see his page at The Society of Midland Authors.
Bill Wolfe (biography pending)
I like your bio.
Robin,
I am a part time Reference Librarian at Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts. I Recently stumbled across your Writing About Film page at College of DuPage. I would love to include a link to your page in a LIbGuide for film studies.
Louise Motta
By all means, go ahead. Just a warning, though–I haven’t taught at the College of DuPage for five years. I don’t know how long COD will leave the site up–although they haven’t taken it down in the last five years, so maybe they’ll never get to it.
Hi Robin,
Would love you to review Dallas the Early Years for my upcoming blogathon as you sugeested x Thanks for joining in xx https://weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/announcing-the-darlin-dallasers-blogathon/
Hi Robin. Just wanted to give you a reminder about your review on The Producers for my Mel Brooks Blogathon since today is the final day.