About Cultural Learnings
Cultural Learnings, started in January 2007 by Myles McNutt, is a television blog with a focus on critical reviews and analysis of a wide range of television series. The goal is not to recap the events of the latest episode, but rather to place it within the context of the series, the season, its genre, and on occasion broad literary and cultural philosophies. While a fairly academic and analytical approach is generally employed, the subjects themselves are extremely diverse: from network to cable, Glee to Mad Men, science fiction to comedy, everything is both subject to criticism and, more importantly, open to interpretation.
If you want to contact Cultural Learnings in regards to promotional materials, screeners, writing opportunities, questions or general inquiries, you can contact Myles at cultural.learnings @ gmail.com.
About Myles McNutt
Myles McNutt is a graduate student from Nova Scotia, Canada, currently working towards his PhD in Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his undergraduate honours thesis on the genesis of medieval romance within the 2004 re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica (available to read here) in 2008, and in 2009 finished his Master’s thesis on Canadian identity within small town literature and television, including sitcoms Corner Gas and Little Mosque on the Prairie (available to read here). His current research is focused on twenty-first century television criticism, the construction and mediation of place within contemporary television, and whatever else you might see on the pages of this blog on any given day.
Myles is currently a contributor at The A.V. Club, where he reviews The Office weekly while dropping in on a number of other series sporadically. He is also a contributor editor of Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture, a media and cultural studies blog run out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Myles is also a regular guest on the /Filmcast, where his contributions have included a season-by-season discussion of The Wire, an analysis of Battlestar Galactica’s series finale, and a discussion of the series finale of Lost.
You can contact Myles via his Twitter feed, his Facebook page, or through the email address above.
