A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Susan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”
Read morePhoebe Bronstein explores the representation of Southern law enforcement around Andy Griffith in the “Danny Meets Andy” episode of Make Room for Daddy, exploring how the show navigated national and regional discourses and anxieties of the police during the Civil Rights Movement.
Read moreCarol Vernallis investigates the state of campaign music in the 2016 Presidential election, asking why is there so little musically or audiovisually rich content this cycle?
Read moreCasey McCormick analyzes the relationship of the season finale cliffhanger to the economic, formal, and fandom elements of television, focusing in particular on the season 6 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
Read moreEric Hahn explores how user-generated digital databases complicate our understanding of the nature of reportage, history, and news coverage.
Read moreGermaine Halegoua explores the under-investigated networks within infrastructure studies: networks of “always off” connection that are purposefully constructed as dark or inactive.
Read moreGreg Clinton considers apocalyptic futures, survivalism, and “crazy preppers” as responses to changing social mores through 10 Cloverfield‘s representation of bunkers as fortified domestic spaces.
Read moreRoopali Mukherjee discusses racial (in)visibility and the modern technical malfunctions that misidentify people of color while organizing and reifying powerful epidermal schema of differentiation and discrimination.
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Toby Lee considers the multiple and repeating uses of looped documentary media in the national September 11 Memorial Museum, examining their their particular sense of timelessness and their relationship to collective historical trauma.
Read moreIn his contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Colin Beckett discusses the GIF — the most visible looped media form — in relation to the conventions of early cinema, news and online journalism, and avant-garde art, as well as social media self-promotion.
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, S. Topiary Landberg argues for the benefits and potentials of loop narratives and circular forms as a productive alternative to dominant linear logics; where she sees such linear narratives and modes as patriarchal, controlling, and predetermined, loops provide for the expression of “experiences of change and growth to be inclusive and fundamentally non-combative and non-competitive.”
Read moreIn her contribution to the Flow Special Issue on Loop Media, Lyn Goeringer uses enunciation theory and the work of Émile Benveniste and Anette Vandsø to consider looping practices in audio recording generally, and in the music of Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram specifically.
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