Shawna Kidman / University of California San Diego

Shawna Kidman is an Assistant Professor of Communication at UC San Diego where she teaches courses in media studies. Her research on the media industries has been published in Velvet Light Trap, the International Journal of Learning and Media, and the International Journal of Communication. She is the author of Comic Books Incorporated (UC Press, 2019) is a history of the U.S. comic book industry and its seventy year convergence with the film and television business.

**OVER*FLOW: The Oscar’s Slow Lurch Toward Relevance and Diversity**
Shawna Kidman / University of California San Diego

March 4, 2019 Shawna Kidman / University of California San Diego 2 comments

Shawna Kidman offers a timely response to this year’s Oscars, the Academy’s diversity and ratings problems, and how Black Panther complicates what we think is “Oscar worthy.”

OVER*FLOW: The Oscar’s Slow Lurch Toward Relevance and Diversity Shawna Kidman / University of California San Diego

**OVER*FLOW: The Oscar’s Slow Lurch Toward Relevance and Diversity**
Shawna Kidman / University of California San Diego