Looking at Rock Stars
Thomas Swiss / University of Minnesota
Exploring how we can talk about photography and portraiture.
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Fighting, beers and the queered – Class, hyper-masculinity and reality TV
Faye Davies / Birmingham City University
An exploration of masculinity on British reality TV.
Read moreFilm, Nostalgia, and The Digital Divide
Wheeler Winston Dixon / University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The old films and film camera equipment have been almost taken away from us – and apparently, we didn’t even notice.
Read moreSurveillance and Disinformation
Hacked: Nadia El Fani’s “Bedwin Hacker”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi
Considering Bedwin Hacker’s take on immigration as a degenerative form of cultural invasion, and hacking as a destructive form of vandalism against intellectual property or terrorism against the state.
Read moreHow to become a TV star
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
A consideration of cultural importance of the Logies, Australia’s Emmys.
Read moreLaughing Out Loud: Wanda Sykes and the Making of Lesbian Celebrity Activism
Julia Himberg / University of Southern California
Lesbian activism is characterized by celebrity ambivalence, rather than by an easy association with minority politics
Read moreAdorno vs. Siskel and Ebert
Doyle Greene / Independent Scholar
David Lynch’s Secret Passages II
Akira Mizuta Lippit/ University of Southern California
Following the pathways of David Lynch’s Inland Empire through multiple film texts.
Read moreGod is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance
Randy Lewis/University of Texas
Sacred security, Homeland Security, and the creeping militarization of the American church.
Read moreWhat if Interactivity is the New Passivity?
Jonathan Sterne / McGill University
Bartleby, capitalism, the “Like” button, and the vicissitudes of participatory media.
Read moreOn the Surface
Robert Hariman/Northwestern University and John Louis Lucaites/Indiana University
A consideration of the affective substance of photographic surfaces.
Read moreA Good Day to Die Hard: Age, Action, and the Masculine Hard Body
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University
An examination of aging male action stars.
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