LAW AND ORDER AND TV CRIME: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
CATHERINE MARTIN / DENISON UNIVERSITY
Catherine Martin lays out a historical trajectory of crime and policing on television.
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LAW AND ORDER AND TV CRIME: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
From “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV — Part One
Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University
Brandy Monk-Payton explores the shift from racial relevance to an active reckoning with race through the lens of Black Lives Matter television.
Read moreThe Ethics of Televisual Emotions: Looking Back on 9/11
Philip Scepanski / Marist College
Philip Scepanski describes the effects of television’s engagement with 9/11 on our emotional responses to national trauma.
Read moreTHE EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE: DISRUPTION IN FOOTBALL AND TELEVISION
KATHRYN HARTZELL / UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Kathryn Hartzell discusses the failed European Super League and the influence of television rights and growing global audiences on football.
Read moreTape Trading Professional Wrestling and the History of TV Distribution
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Using professional wrestling as a case study to analyze unofficial broadcast distribution, Eleanor Patterson analyzes the role of tape trading and fan communities to the circulation of pro-wrestling media.
Read moreSyndication 203: A Waxy Queer Buildup
Taylor Cole Miller / University of Georgia
In his final installment on television syndication, Taylor Cole Miller examines how particular first-run syndicated programs offered and embraced queerness.
Read moreThe Future of the Ratings Panel
Jennifer Hessler / Bucknell University
Jennifer Hessler discusses the place of Nielsen and comScore’s ratings panels in the digital age.
Read moreGay Democratic Socialist Disruption on Television in 1971
Finley Freibert / University of Louisville
Finley Freibert intervenes with traditional interpolations of gay activism in the 1960s and 1970s to investigate media activism performed in the name of gay and democratic socialist liberation.
Read moreCan Television Diversity Overcome the Rise of Algorithmic Recommendations?
Mark D. Pepper / Utah Valley University
Mark D. Pepper ponders the effects of Netflix’s algorithm on categorization, diversity, and truth.
Read moreSyndication 202: Make Reruns Great Again
Taylor Cole Miller / University of Georgia
The second installment of his three-part series sees Taylor Miller consider the implications of edits made to syndicated TV programs on their textuality and reception.
Read moreInsecure, Issa Rae, and The Interstitial Space of Black Female Friendships
Daelena Tinnin / University of Texas at Austin
Daelena Tinnin examines the dearth of black female friendships on television, the paradox of visibility, and Insecure‘s liminal possibilities.
Read moreOVER*FLOW: Dynasty, Reproduction, Coalition: Why the Game of Thrones Finale Was Queerly Satisfying
Alexander Cho / UC Irvine
Alexander Cho calls attention to the Game of Thrones conclusion too many of us overlooked: a vision of queer coalition politics.
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