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A look at the specific pedagogical value of fandom as an activity and how it can be appropriated in a variety of educational contexts.

Gunnels and Klink argue that fan studies parallels performance studies in discerning tensions between researcher and subject.

A call to media scholars to begin open and productive conversation about how media are consumed, streamlined, archived, and pedagogically utilized.

An examination of the way media convergence is shaping contemporary sports television.

When “nothing is happening” in Paranormal Activity 1 and 2, the empty room scenes as captured by static cameras in the Paranormal Activity franchise become suspenseful moments of audience reflexivity.

Hamad examines the “runaway bride” trope and its dialectical relationship to femininity as depicted in the UK telefantasy series “Doctor Who.”

An exploration of Asian American and Canadian representations in popular discourse and Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow.

The once-breathlessly pleasurable practice of inserting sly intertextual references may be reaching the point of oversaturation as evidenced by the current season of Fox’s Glee.

MTV’s Teen Mom deploys a straw man of the “Bad Mother,” akin to the Reagan-era welfare queen, to depict unwed, lower-class teen women in a negative light.

Gerbner’s notion of “symbolic annihilation” frames this discussion of minority representation in mainstream U.S. television, wherein Del Rio notes the conspicuous omission of Filipinos from the televisual space.