Pigmalion: Animality and Failure in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Andrew Scahill/George Mason University
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the “white trash spectacle”
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Pigmalion: Animality and Failure in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
The Hunger Games and Obama’s “Post-racial” America
Camille Debose / DePaul University
A consideration of post-racial America through the lens of The Hunger Games.
Read moreSatellite TV Smackdown: Viacom vs. DirecTV
Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Stephen Tropiano examines the showdown between Viacom and DirecTV.
Read moreRemembering Alexander Doty
Corey Creekmur/University of Iowa
Corey Creekmur remembers his friend, Alexander Doty.
Read moreHow We Talk About Media Refusal, Part 1: “Addiction”
Laura Portwood-Stacer / New York University
Is our relationship to social media obsessive and overwhelming? What happens when we refuse to take part?
Read moreHow Lena Dunham Set Me Free
Camille Debose / DePaul University
A consideration of “Girls” creator Lena Dunham’s response to complaints about her show’s lack of diversity.
Read moreSerialization and Genre Expectations: The Case of The Killing
Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
A look at how serialization can affect genre expectation for viewers of The Killing.
Read moreSurveillance and Disinformation
Hacked: Nadia El Fani’s “Bedwin Hacker”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi
Considering Bedwin Hacker’s take on immigration as a degenerative form of cultural invasion, and hacking as a destructive form of vandalism against intellectual property or terrorism against the state.
Read moreGod is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance
Randy Lewis/University of Texas
Sacred security, Homeland Security, and the creeping militarization of the American church.
Read moreAmerican Dreams – Israeli Formats: How Israeli TV Became a U.S. Success Story
Sharon Shahaf / Georgia State University
Considering the politics inherent within the current wave of U.S. adaptations of Israeli-based television series.
Read moreSubaquatic Frames
Nicole Starosielski / Miami University
Tracking the origins of the cinematic framing of undersea environments in order to draw attention to the historical specificity of this view.
Read moreThe Future of Television?
Sharon Strover / The University of Texas at Austin
The Future of Television Amid all the doom and gloom coming from incumbent broadcasters as they face the fact that some of their spectrum may go away and that people are finding a lot of things to watch besides their channels, a perennial bright spot for most media industries is South by Southwest (SXSW). The Interactive Festival in particular has […]
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