A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
ROOM H.264: Quarantine, April 2020 was sponsored by the Museum of the Moving Image. “Is cinema becoming a dead language — an art form which is already in decline?” (Wim Wenders, Room 666, 1982; Eric Hynes, Jeff Reichert, and Damon Smith, ROOM H.264, 2020) On April 20, 2020, I was an “audience member” in ROOM H.264: Quarantine, April 2020, an Online […]
Read moreSinging from the balconies in Spain. Today we are listening harder than ever. But to what? Social distancing and isolation have reduced the noise of everyday life. As cities retreat indoors and transport comes to a standstill, the world has become a quieter place. But while a hush has settled over the outside world, our virtual spaces have exploded into […]
Read moreRoderik Smits considers how online streaming and transactional platforms have responded to the mass closure of movie theaters during the Covid-19 health crisis.
Read moreDavid Church considers how a renewed interest in drive-in theaters as movie exhibition spaces, as well as spaces for religious services during the Covid-19 health crisis, brings further attention to politicization of public space.
Read more#Frontberichten allows those who work on the front lines to broadcast their messages to the Netherlands and the world. A striking effect of the COVID-19 crisis that first began in 2020 is an increase of both interpersonal social media and mass media such as national broadcasting. In The Netherlands the news and talk shows on public television have had many […]
Read moreFan-produced music video, using Grimes’ chromakey footage for her latest single, “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone.” My current research focuses on spectacular expansion, but with the coronavirus pandemic it seems like everything is constricting. Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics, a volume I co-edited with Holly Rogers and Lisa Perrott, has just come out, and my manuscript, […]
Read moreDeborah L. Jaramillo examines cable news demographics and how, contrary to popular assumptions, MSNBC and Fox News both vie for certain age groups, with varying levels of success.
Read moreIn his second column, Brian Fauteux, drawing on insights from The Cultural Capital Project, examines the ways digital music industry executives have dominated the narrative of streaming music and argues for more voices from the creative laborers who produce content for the streaming music giants.
Read moreHelen Morgan-Parmett explores the ways in which podcasting’s sensorial, intimate, and convergent capabilities produce new connections to space and place.
Read moreFinley Freibert intervenes with traditional interpolations of gay activism in the 1960s and 1970s to investigate media activism performed in the name of gay and democratic socialist liberation.
Read moreKathleen Loock explores the increasing use of digital de-aging in Hollywood cinema and how the phenomenon affects stars’ personas and audience memory and nostalgia.
Read moreCOVID-19 has changed every facet of life around the world. As we live through this moment of historic change, we offer Flow as a space to parse out issues affecting the pedagogies and research interests of film and media studies scholars across the globe. Many instructors in cinema and media studies will be teaching online over the next few months; […]
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