A journal of television and new media

Archive for September, 2009

<strong>Notes on Film Pedagogy: Infusing Asian Studies into Undergraduate Curriculum </strong><br /><em> Konrad Ng / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa </em>

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.

<strong>“Honey, Look What I Found in the Special Features!”</strong><br /><em>Mary Celeste Kearney / University of Texas – Austin</em>

“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.

<strong>A Day with the Score-Oriented: <em>Rock Band</em> Tournament Play </strong><br /><em> Kiri Miller / Brown University </em>

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 .

<strong>Vertigo</strong><br /><em>Ted Friedman / Georgia State University</em>

Vertigo
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University

A personal account of the relationship between Buddhism and Postmodernism.

<strong>Straitjacket Sex Screens: Mapping Asian/American Men in the Movies</strong><br /><em>Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB</em>

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?

<strong>Colombo Calling: Radio Ceylon and Bombay cinema’s “national audience”</strong><br /><em> Aswin Punathambekar  / The University of Michigan </em>

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.

<strong>Grow. Create. Be.: A Media Literacy Project</strong><br /><em>Christine Quail / McMaster University</em>

Grow. Create. Be.: A Media Literacy Project
Christine Quail / McMaster University

A discussion of a series of media literacy workshops for girls 10-13.

<strong>Beautiful Girls as Beautiful Boys; Transcultural Shoujo Subgenres and Gender Performance</strong><br /><em> Amanda Landa / FLOW Staff  </em>

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.

<strong>Rewind: <em>sex, lies, and videotape at 20 </em></strong><br /><em> Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine </em>

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.

<strong>The Lost World of Socialist Children’s TV</strong><br /><em> Anikó Imre / University of Southern California</em>

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

<strong>Primal Giggles: Thoughts on Reality Television’s Recent Pieties and Parodies of the “Masculine Primitive”</strong><br /> <em>Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst</em>

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.

<strong>No Mean City to New Century City</strong><br /><em>Lisa W. Kelly / University of  Glasgow</em>

No Mean City to New Century City
Lisa W. Kelly / University of Glasgow

Discusses the future of television production in Glasgow, Scotland.