Archive for September, 2009
Notes on Film Pedagogy: Infusing Asian Studies into Undergraduate Curriculum
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
A consideration of the potential use for Asian cinema within an Asian Studies curriculum.
“Honey, Look What I Found in the Special Features!”
Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Texas – Austin
An examination of ‘Birth an Independent Woman,’ a documentary included on the ‘Mad Men’ Season Two DVD, and its implications for the future of feminist filmmaking and distribution.
A Day with the Score-Oriented: Rock Band Tournament Play
Kiri Miller / Brown University
Observations from a video game tournament considering the qualities of score-oriented gaming .
Vertigo
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University
A personal account of the relationship between Buddhism and Postmodernism.
Straitjacket Sex Screens: Mapping Asian/American Men in the Movies
Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB
How can we rethink suffocating gender binaries surrounding the representation of Asian American men in popular cinema?
Colombo Calling: Radio Ceylon and Bombay cinema’s “national audience”
Aswin Punathambekar / The University of Michigan
A brief historical account of the Indian radio program Binaca Geet Mala and Radio Ceylon’s role in forging a “national audience” around the songs and stars of Bombay cinema.
Grow. Create. Be.: A Media Literacy Project
Christine Quail / McMaster University
A discussion of a series of media literacy workshops for girls 10-13.
Beautiful Girls as Beautiful Boys; Transcultural Shoujo Subgenres and Gender Performance
Amanda Landa / FLOW Staff
An analysis of cross-dressing and gender performance in shojo anime and manga.
Rewind: sex, lies, and videotape at 20
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
A thoughtful rumination on sex, lies, and videotape on its twentieth anniversary.
The Lost World of Socialist Children’s TV
Anikó Imre / University of Southern California
A look back at popular 60’s Czech cartoon show, Krtek
Primal Giggles: Thoughts on Reality Television’s Recent Pieties and Parodies of the “Masculine Primitive”
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst
A look at the subgenre of reality televsion based on quasi-ethnographic adventuring and the male primitive.
No Mean City to New Century City
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow
Discusses the future of television production in Glasgow, Scotland.
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