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The Return of Global Sisterhood? The Transnational Journey of the 4B Movement on TikTok
Jinsook Kim / Emory University

Kim explores the 4B movement as a transnational form of feminism that has been cultivated through digital platforms.

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“What Sort of Dreams Should We Be Making?”: Pixar Creative Culture and the Crisis of Disney+
Ben Rogerson / Texas Tech University

In this column, Rogerson offers a textual and industrial analysis of the self-reflexive Disney+/Pixar series Dream Productions and the animation unit’s short-lived approach to streaming series.

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Just Pretend: Elvis Girlies, Social Media and Embodied Play
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University

Eleanor Patterson explores how Elvis Girlies “play around” with history.

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Across-the-Line: The Invisible Labor and Cultural Mechanics of Hollywood’s Entry-Level Workforce
Kiah Bennett / Muhlenberg College

Bennett examines the production culture from the perspective of across-the-line workers at the entry level.

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The Copyright Creative Stranglehold

April 15, 2005 Patricia Aufderheide / American University 11 comments

by: Patricia Aufderheide / American University
A discussion of the negative effects of copyright law on documentary production.

Pass the Remote: Adult Swim

April 15, 2005 Shana Heinricy, Matthew Thomas Payne, Angela McManaman 22 comments

by: Shana Heinricy, Matt Payne, and Angela McManaman
Who is the “we” in those ubiquitous [Adult Swim] promos?

Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching?

April 15, 2005 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 8 comments

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
Is ‘disappointment’ and ‘the teaching of disgust’ the ‘core of our discipline’? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn’t reality TV do it better than we do?

Inside the Beeb

April 15, 2005 Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK 3 comments

by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
How can a public network like the BBC survive in the age of privatization?

Flotsam

April 15, 2005 Christopher Anderson / Indiana University 2 comments

by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
How does our understanding of television change when we replace the idea of “flow” with “flotsam”?

Copps’s Hypothesis: Indecency and Media Ownership

April 15, 2005 Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College 9 comments

by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Wasser considers a hypothesis of FCC commissioner Michael Copps: is there a relationship between media deregulation and vulgar programming?