LAW AND ORDER AND TV CRIME: HOW DID WE GET HERE?
CATHERINE MARTIN / DENISON UNIVERSITY
Catherine Martin lays out a historical trajectory of crime and policing on television.
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It Was a Filmways Imprint, Darling
Quinn Miller / University of Oregon
Quinn Miller discusses the Filmways company and the potential of using our everyday environments for research.
Read moreFrom “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV — Part One
Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University
Brandy Monk-Payton explores the shift from racial relevance to an active reckoning with race through the lens of Black Lives Matter television.
Read moreThe Ethics of Televisual Emotions: Looking Back on 9/11
Philip Scepanski / Marist College
Philip Scepanski describes the effects of television’s engagement with 9/11 on our emotional responses to national trauma.
Read moreRemix a Myth & Sing a Black Girl’s Song
Ravynn K. Stringfield / William & Mary
Ravynn K. Stringfield identifies how Black female artists and authors have “reimagined” historical and previously white narratives.
Read moreOver*Flow: Queen of the Neighborhood: Monse Finnie Mobilizes and Defies the Ingenue Trope in Netflix’s On My Block
Stephanie Melissa Perez / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Melissa Perez explores how On My Block’s Monse experiences her own objectification and challenges stereotypes of ingenues and Black and Latinx girls.
Read moreBILLBOARD’S HOT 100 CHART: INDUSTRIALIZED MAINSTREAMS AND CROSSOVERS
Luis E. Rivera-Figueroa / University of Texas at Austin
Luis Rivera-Figueroa questions the concepts of mainstream and crossover as categories constructed by industrial practices.
Read more“Life Is Business and Business Is Life”: The Big Shot with Bethenny and the Social Factory
Ryan David Briggs / University of texas at austin
Ryan David Briggs describes how The Big Shot with Bethenny reflects the increasing demands of the real world job search.
Read moreArt Imitates LIFE, NFT verifies ART: Walter Benjamin and Vault by CNN
Andy fischer Wright / University of Texas at Austin
Andy Fischer Wright examines the commodification of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by large media organizations in relation to Walter Benjamin’s (1935) “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
Read moreI Need To Tell You Something: The Confessional Mode In Television
Alex Remington / University of Texas at Austin
Alex Remington explores the complicated set of logics and ethics in the confessional form in reality television.
Read moreIn on the Joke: Self-Aware Advertising in Comedy
Kellie Veltri / University of Texas at Austin
Kellie Veltri explores the concept and applications of self-aware product integration in television network comedies.
Read moreTHE EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE: DISRUPTION IN FOOTBALL AND TELEVISION
KATHRYN HARTZELL / UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Kathryn Hartzell discusses the failed European Super League and the influence of television rights and growing global audiences on football.
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