A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Miranda Banks and Kristin Lieb map how The Lifetime Television Network has cultivated an increasingly inclusive and compelling model of media made by and for diverse women.
Read moreLooking at the most recent issues of the “New Super-Man” comic series, Woo analyzes and codes the paratextual promotional material to assess the relative value of fans to the comics industry.
Read morePaul Reinsch explores the complicated definition of soundtracks, and its meaning for the media industries more widely.
Read moreJustin Wyatt considers discourses on digital and television advertising and considers how the truisms of television marketing are being revised, reformed, and sometimes simply rejected by the new variety of options for TV consumption.
Read moreLane Mann looks into SVOD audience constructions, brand strategies, and definitions of success in order to understand the industry’s ever-changing views of audiences.
Read moreIn part II of their “Wicked Games” series, Matthew Payne and Peter Alilunas look the controversies surrounding the video game industry in the early 1990s and the subsequent birth of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings.
Read moreThe author argues for a more diverse notion of cinematography that is inclusive of not only various technical sensibilities but also of people.
Read moreAn interrogation of the continued quest for digitally addressable systems in India.
Read moreStephen Tropiano examines the showdown between Viacom and DirecTV.
Read moreLa semiótica de la televisión en América Latina: problemáticas y perspectivas metodológicas
by: Alfredo Cid Jurado / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Mexico City
El futuro de la semiótica aplicada a la televisión latinoamericana, y cómo puede responder a las demandas sobre el estudio profundo del rol social que juega la televisión en el mundo de habla hispana. / The future of semiotics and the study of Latin American Television, and the ways it may respond to the demands for a deeper study of the social role that television plays in the Spanish speaking world.
Comics to Film (And Halfway Back Again): A DVD Essay
by: Drew Morton / UCLA
By constructing visual essays, cinema and media studies scholars dip their hands into processes they think and write so much about.
Brand Loyalty vs. show loyalty, the strange case of Virgin vs. Sky
by: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
Caught in between disputing media cable providers, audiences find alternative ways to circumvent the
media’s economically driven programming strategies.