Odin O’sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Odin O’sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Odin |
| FAMILY NAME | O’sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | O’SULLIVAN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4138-9898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revenge bodies and antisocial media ecologies
The present article theorises the emergence and persistence of a notable cultural archetype prevalent across 21st century media forms: the revenge body. The promise of personal inviolability offered by this corporeal project is compelling in an era marked by an increasingly insistent discourse of gender polarisation and conflict. Given a contemporary public culture in the global North in which social and political antipathies prevail, we note the…
You've got to thank toxic masculinity
Girl Dads
This article examines the cultural figure of the girl dad, which has emerged as a prominent masculine sub-type in the 2020s, celebrating and spectacularising the father-daughter relationship. A diffuse presence across old and new media forms, we trace the girl dad's long-standing origins in film and television right up to its transmedial deployment in diverse contexts including professional self-branding on LinkedIn, a hit comedy special, and an …
Spill your guts or fill your guts
This article argues for the consideration of food challenge media as a mode in which the audience’s sadistic desire for the levelling of celebrities ‘through personal humiliation’ is captured and repurposed through the performative masochism of the celebrities themselves. Celebrity food challenge media, a term which I use to refer to programming such as a The Late Late Show with James Corden segment called ‘Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts’ and …
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s viral video politics
At the beginning of the first COVID-19 lock-down in the U.S., Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a video to Twitter, featuring his miniature horse and donkey, informing the public to stay at home. This was the first of a number of uploads throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in which Schwarzenegger employed the cuteness of his animals, the authenticity of ruralism and nature, and the iconicity of his past cinematic roles to disseminate his form of viral vi…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s viral video politics
At the beginning of the first COVID-19 lock-down in the U.S., Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a video to Twitter, featuring his miniature horse and donkey, informing the public to stay at home. This was the first of a number of uploads throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in which Schwarzenegger employed the cuteness of his animals, the authenticity of ruralism and nature, and the iconicity of his past cinematic roles to disseminate his form of viral vi…
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’
This article considers the cultural significance of a body type that has been largely overlooked in contemporary masculinities scholarship: the ‘Dadbod’. Defying popular culture’s typical preference for midlife invisibility, the paunchy physique of the Dadbod (often with ‘love handles’) centres a split discourse in being the object of both celebration and opprobrium. Prevalent in both celebrity and lifestyle discourse (often in contradictory ways…
Girl Dads
This article examines the cultural figure of the girl dad, which has emerged as a prominent masculine sub-type in the 2020s, celebrating and spectacularising the father-daughter relationship. A diffuse presence across old and new media forms, we trace the girl dad's long-standing origins in film and television right up to its transmedial deployment in diverse contexts including professional self-branding on LinkedIn, a hit comedy special, and an …
Spill your guts or fill your guts
This article argues for the consideration of food challenge media as a mode in which the audience’s sadistic desire for the levelling of celebrities ‘through personal humiliation’ is captured and repurposed through the performative masochism of the celebrities themselves. Celebrity food challenge media, a term which I use to refer to programming such as a The Late Late Show with James Corden segment called ‘Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts’ and …
You've got to thank toxic masculinity
Revenge bodies and antisocial media ecologies
The present article theorises the emergence and persistence of a notable cultural archetype prevalent across 21st century media forms: the revenge body. The promise of personal inviolability offered by this corporeal project is compelling in an era marked by an increasingly insistent discourse of gender polarisation and conflict. Given a contemporary public culture in the global North in which social and political antipathies prevail, we note the…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works)