Caroline Framke
Born (1988-09-30) September 30, 1988 (age 35)
OccupationWriter, TV and film critic
Alma materSmith College

Caroline Framke (born September 30, 1988) is an American writer and critic and is Chief TV Critic at Variety.[1] Formerly, she was a columnist at Vox[2][3][4] and has contributed to The Atlantic,[5] The A.V. Club, Flavorwire, Complex, Vulture, Salon,[6] and NPR.[7]

Her gender and culture commentary have been featured in books.[8][9] She has studied and written about the #MeToo movement,[10][11] and her analysis was featured in The New York Times' Editor's Reading List of 2017.[12] Framke was the head of a widely covered study that found that in the 2015–2016 television season, 10% of character deaths were of LGBT women, even though they made up an extremely small percentage of total characters.[8][13][14]

References

  1. ^ "Caroline Framke". Variety. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Caroline Framke Profile and Activity - Vox". www.vox.com. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  3. ^ Kitchens, Juliette C.; Hawk, Julie L., eds. (2019). Transmediating the Whedonverse(s): Essays on Texts, Paratexts, and Metatexts. Springer Nature. p. 173. ISBN 9783030246167.
  4. ^ Ann, Kayla (2020). Agency in The Hunger Games: Desire, Intent and Action in the Novels. McFarland. p. 57. ISBN 9781476639147.
  5. ^ Framke, Caroline. "Caroline Framke". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  6. ^ "Caroline Framke". Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  7. ^ "Ask Todd Anything, with guest host Caroline Framke". ART19. Archived from the original on 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  8. ^ a b Millward, Liz; Dodd, Janice G.; Fubara-Manuel, Irene (2017-05-16). Killing Off the Lesbians: A Symbolic Annihilation on Film and Television. McFarland. ISBN 9781476628400.
  9. ^ Hanson, Ralph E. (2016-10-14). Mass Communication: Living in a Media World. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781506358574.
  10. ^ Benko, Steven A., ed. (2020). Ethics in Comedy: Essays on Crossing the Line. McFarland. p. 117. ISBN 9781476676418.
  11. ^ Collier Hillstrom, Laurie (2018). The #MeToo Movement. ABC-CLIO. p. 93. ISBN 9781440867507.
  12. ^ Leonhardt, David (2017-12-26). "Opinion | Editors Speak: A 2017 Reading List". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  13. ^ "TV Characters' Rising Death Toll Reveals Troubling Pattern". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-01-19.
  14. ^ Calvario, Liz (2016-06-01). "More Queer Women Are Being Killed Off On Television Series Than Ever Before — Study". IndieWire. Retrieved 2018-01-19.


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