Year: 2009
NBC vs. YouTube: The Blogosphere’s Bottom-Up Backlash Against Big Media
The Camera Girl: Historical Fragments of a Popular Production Discourse for Brazilian Television
Vicki Mayer / Tulane University
Women in Post-Democratic Italy: A documentary perspective
Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado at Boulder
An examination of recent criticism of the commodification of celebrity status ann women’s bodies through recent Italian documentary film
Read moreH d’oh TV: Watching With The Simpsons in High Definition
R. Colin Tait / FLOW Staff
The Beatles: Rock Band, A Revolution(?): Myth and Over-determined Discourse
Racquel Gonzales / FLOW Staff
Pow! Ooomph! Skadoosh!: Combat Aesthetics and Intermediality
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
An examination of combat aesthetics and the transmedia proliferation of mixed martial arts.
Read moreBiting Off Your Long Tail: Ruminations on Animal Planet
Adrienne L. McLean / University of Texas – Dallas
A consideration and critique of Animal Planet and its various programming.
Read moreNotes on Film Pedagogy: Infusing Asian Studies into Undergraduate Curriculum
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
A consideration of the potential use for Asian cinema within an Asian Studies curriculum.
Read more“Honey, Look What I Found in the Special Features!”
Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Texas – Austin
An examination of ‘Birth an Independent Woman,’ a documentary included on the ‘Mad Men’ Season Two DVD, and its implications for the future of feminist filmmaking and distribution.
Read moreA Day with the Score-Oriented: Rock Band Tournament Play
Kiri Miller / Brown University
Observations from a video game tournament considering the qualities of score-oriented gaming .
Read moreVertigo
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University
A personal account of the relationship between Buddhism and Postmodernism.
Read moreStraitjacket Sex Screens: Mapping Asian/American Men in the Movies
Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB
How can we rethink suffocating gender binaries surrounding the representation of Asian American men in popular cinema?
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