Pitchforking Andy Samberg’s Hipster Appeal
Alyx Vesey / Independent Scholar
A look at Andy Samberg’s role as Saturday Night Live’s resident hipster and geek.
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Gilda Rader and ‘Jewess Jeans’: Breaking the Jewish Ethnicity Taboo on Network Television
Bernard M. Timberg / East Carolina University
Michael O’Donoghue, SNL, and the Comedy of Cruelty
Evan Elkins / University of Texas-Austin
A look at early Saturday Night Live and the comedy of Michael O’Donoghue.
Read more‘Using One of its Lifelines’: Does Politics Save Saturday Night Live from Oblivion?
The role of political satire in “rescuing” Saturday Night Live from obscurity and cultural irrelevance.
Jonathan Gray / Fordham University, Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University, and Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Around the Antenna Tree: The Politics of Infrastructural Visibility
Lisa Parks / UC Santa Barbara
An examination of what is at stake when technological infrastructures are hidden.
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Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
Orientalized Masculinities in Contemporary Australian Cinema
Jane Park / The University of Sydney
An investigation of Asian masculinities in Little Fish and Japanese Story.
Read moreStrategies of Innovation in ‘High-End’ TV Drama: The Contribution of Cable
Trisha Dunleavy / Victoria University of Wellington
Are You Smarter Than a Cuban Customs Official?: Reassessing Cuba’s Commercial Television Influence in Latin America
Yeidy M. Rivero / Indiana University – Bloomington
Yeidy Rivero introduces and explores the history of Cuban Television, which remains largely inaccessible to television and media scholars.
Read more“You Can be Dead but You’re Never Really Dead”: Six Feet, Six Inches Under
Peter Lehman / Arizona State University & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College
by Peter Lehman / Arizona State University -Tempe & Susan Hunt / Santa Monica College
A look at sex and the body guy in life and death on the television series Six Feet Under.
Read moreStrat-O-Matic and the Baseball Tarot: Sense and Synchronicity in Sports and Games
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta
A look at chance in Strat-O-Matic baseball, and what it has to tell us about gameplay in general.
Read moreOn the Digital Music Wars: Where Are We Now?
Patrick Burkart / Texas A&M University
This essay asks and attempts to answer the question, “In our waning economy, what is the future of the digital music industry?”
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