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The Fantastic, Feminist Religion of Wonderfalls
The Views of the Feminist Archive
Alexandra Juhasz / Pitzer College
The video collection from the Los Angeles Woman’s Building offers a glimpse into a feminist archive in process.
Read morePost Racialism, Romance, and The Real World D.C.
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University
A look at the politics of race in an interracial romance on The Real World, D.C.
Read moreFrom “Play to Display”: Parkour as Media-Mimetics, or Nature Reclamation?
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts – Amherst
The D2D Release: Notes on a Burgeoning Market
Amanda Klein / East Carolina University
Direct-to-DVD (D2D) films are often ignored by academic discourse, yet the study of D2D films offers an important contribution to the fields of both reception and genre studies.
Read moreFlow Favorites: Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity
Michael Kackman / University of Texas – Austin
This piece sparked a vigorous discussion within the television studies community with its call to think more rigorously about why, exactly, we are drawn to aesthetically and narratively complex TV.
Read moreDark Techné in Sports Advertisements
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts
“More drinkin’, less thinkin’, fewer teeth, and beer”
Constructing the redneck identity in CMT’s My Big Redneck Wedding.
Melissa Click / University of Missouri
Read moreFace to Face with the E-Waste of Tomorrow at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show
Max Dawson / Northwestern University
One media scholar’s reportage of and reaction to the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show.
Read morePhonography: Lessons Learned from Teaching Audio Technologies
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
Reflections on teaching cultural studies of sound technology and popular music.
Read more“I See You?”: Gender and Disability in Avatar
Michael Peterson, Laurie Beth Clark, and Lisa Nakamura
In addition to critiquing Avatar’s representations of gender and disability, the authors also consider the reasons for the film’s widespread popularity.
Read moreAvatar as Technological Tentpole
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University
Is James Cameron’s Avatar a “game-changer,” or business as usual?
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