DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Marketing Campaigns
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University
A look at notions of home in DirectTV’s Sunday NFL Ticket marketing campaigns.
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DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Marketing Campaigns
“Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom
Melissa Click / University of Missouri
A look at why “Twi-hards” need to be taken seriously.
Read moreThoughts from Oslo, Norway: Film Festivals and Expanding the Moral Imagination
Konrad Ng/ University of Hawaii, Mānoa
A consideration of Asian American Film Festivals as a space for expanding the moral imagination as a result of an insightful rumination of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
Read moreThe Foreignness of Race
Aniko Imre / USC
A brief examination of celebrity culture and race within television.
Read moreImmigration in the News
Carolyn E. Brown / American University
A comparative look at immigration reporting in Spanish- and English-language TV news
Of American Slouch and English Fervour
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland
A revealing look into English and American football crowds, their historic relationships to the sport, and their complicated defiance of corporate interference in the game.
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Quinn Miller / Hampshire College
Stage Left: Glee and the Textual Politics of Difference
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
A look at difference, marginalization, and minority politics in the new show Glee.
Read moreBeing on Television
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
An examination of the holiday broadcast considering “liveness” and ontological themes revolving within television studies
Read moreNetworking Families: Battlestar Galactica and the Values of Quality
Jordan Lavender-Smith / City University of New York
A consideration of the tropes of ‘quality’ in Battlestar Galactica.
Read moreNew Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.
David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas
An exploration of the the continued use of the terms “media” and “new,” prevents us from focusing on how this change from analog to digital is more than just a media shift.
Read moreReading Narrative Excess in MMA
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
An analysis of the psychodynamics of televised mixed martial arts and “pauses” as narrative excess
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