The Future of Television is…Comics?
Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin
A consideration of television’s increasing investment in comic book properties.
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Television and the Data Salt Mines
Sharon Strover / The University of Texas at Austin
A discussion regarding the current state of TV as data.
Read moreAccess is Elementary: Crossing Television’s Distribution Borders
Christine Becker / University of Notre Dame
A discussion about the awareness of “Alternate Methods” among US audiences who consume international TV content.
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Horace Newcomb / University of Georgia
Horace Newcomb offers thoughts on television’s contemporary cultural positioning and historical trajectory.
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Amanda D. Lotz / University of Michigan
Oprah Winfrey, Television Culture, and the Postidentity Dance
Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington
Considers how Oprah Winfrey’s public negotiations of race and gender-based discrimination can inform audiences about speaking back.
Read moreFood, Race, and Technology
Madhavi Mallapragada / University of Texas at Austin
An investigation into how food can appear as a code for multicultural inclusiveness or racist representations of Indian-Americans in media.
Read moreCult Streaming: Warner Archive Instant
Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Rethink the transition from physical to virtual medias by highlighting Warner Archive Instant.
Read moreHas The Walking Dead Killed the White Patriarchy?
Dawn Keetley / Lehigh University
Far from wanting to perpetuate a world divided by racial hierarchies, however, the creators of The Walking Dead have, from the beginning, seemed intent on making their post-apocalyptic world explicitly post-racial
Read moreMedia Fixes: Thoughts on Repair Cultures
Lisa Parks / University of California, Santa Barbara
An exploration of “Repair Culture” in Macha, Zambia.
Read moreThe Director Who Wasn’t There: Klinger’s Double Play
L. Lelaine Bonine / Truman College
Film under review: Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater. Directed by Gabe Klinger. 2013.
Read moreCosmopolitan Aesthetics in the Films of Carlos Reygadas
Kerry Hegarty / Miami University Ohio
An analysis of the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.
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