Vertigo
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University
A personal account of the relationship between Buddhism and Postmodernism.
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Straitjacket 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.
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Grow. 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.
Read moreRewind: sex, lies, and videotape at 20
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
A thoughtful rumination on sex, lies, and videotape on its twentieth anniversary.
Read moreThe Lost World of Socialist Children’s TV
Anikó Imre / University of Southern California
A look back at popular 60’s Czech cartoon show, Krtek
Read morePrimal Giggles: Thoughts on Reality Television’s Recent Pieties and Parodies of the “Masculine Primitive”
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
A look at the subgenre of reality televsion based on quasi-ethnographic adventuring and the male primitive.
Read moreNo Mean City to New Century City
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow
Discusses the future of television production in Glasgow, Scotland.
Read moreSpecial Issue CFP – Sports Media: Tensions and Transitions
Call for Papers for October’s Special Issue on Sports Media
Read moreEnough About the Stainless Steel: Confessions of a Cranky House Porn Addict
Adrienne L. McLean / University of Texas – Dallas
An exploration of the state of HGTV and DIY House Programming, post-recession.
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