Category: Volume 10
H d’oh TV: Watching With The Simpsons in High Definition
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?
Read moreColombo Calling: Radio Ceylon and Bombay cinema’s “national audience”
Aswin Punathambekar / The University of Michigan
A brief historical account of the Indian radio program Binaca Geet Mala and Radio Ceylon’s role in forging a “national audience” around the songs and stars of Bombay cinema.
Read moreGrow. Create. Be.: A Media Literacy Project
Christine Quail / McMaster University
A discussion of a series of media literacy workshops for girls 10-13.
Read moreBeautiful Girls as Beautiful Boys; Transcultural Shoujo Subgenres and Gender Performance
Amanda Landa / FLOW Staff
An analysis of cross-dressing and gender performance in shojo anime and manga.
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