A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Registration rates for the 2014 conference (includes access to all Roundtables, Core Conversations, and Conference Events): $75 for graduate students and independent scholars $150 for all other attendees (faculty, industry professionals, etc.) Free to UT Faculty, Students, and Staff Access to only the Core Conversations: $15 to attend all three sessions Notes about the Core Conversations Completing online registration […]
Read moreA discussion of latency in imagining the structures and limits of streaming media.
Read moreConsidering how the media morphed Oprah into Angry Black Woman during the 2013 Swiss handbag “incident”.
Read moreAn Exploration of Infrastructure and Affect.
Read moreA look at the way multiculturalism is parsed and politicized in the United States.
Read moreA discussion of Pantelion Films and the possibility of a new “Golden Age” for Mexican popular cinema.
Read moreA look at why and how television criticism matters today.
Read moreA discussion over the emerging online distributions of media, and their effects on previous distribution channels.
Read more2014 Roundtable Questions: Attend the Audience: Changing Audience Analysis Getting Back to “So What?” Comic Book Takeover: The Ubiquitous Influence of the Medium in Hollywood Plug & Play: The Intersections of Television Studies and Game Studies Missing in Action: Quality TV and Canonization Reconsidering Digital Distribution Streaming and the Return of Williams’ Flow Ex-Pat TV Enunciative Fan Production and Social […]
Read moreA consideration of female gangsters in central roles in recent television shows, including Justified, Weeds, and Underbelly: Razor.
Read moreAn examination of the role of the celebrity sex tape in today’s reality TV landscape.
Read moreA close look at the sexual politics of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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