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Archive for December, 2009

<strong>DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Marketing Campaigns</strong><br /><em>Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University</em>

DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Marketing Campaigns
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University

A look at notions of home in DirectTV’s Sunday NFL Ticket marketing campaigns.

<strong>“Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom </strong><br /><em> Melissa Click / University of Missouri </em>

“Rabid”, “obsessed”, and “frenzied”: Understanding Twilight Fangirls and the Gendered Politics of Fandom
Melissa Click / University of Missouri

A look at why “Twi-hards” need to be taken seriously.

<strong>Thoughts from Oslo, Norway: Film Festivals and Expanding the Moral Imagination</strong><br /><em>Konrad Ng/ University of Hawaii, Mānoa</em>

Thoughts from Oslo, Norway: Film Festivals and Expanding the Moral Imagination
Konrad Ng/ University of Hawaii, Mānoa

A consideration of Asian American Film Festivals as a space for expanding the moral imagination as a result of an insightful rumination of President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

<strong>The Foreignness of Race</strong><br /><em>Aniko Imre / USC</em>

The Foreignness of Race
Aniko Imre / USC

A brief examination of celebrity culture and race within television.

<strong>Immigration in the News</strong><br /><em> Carolyn E. Brown / American University </em>

Immigration in the News
Carolyn E. Brown / American University

A comparative look at immigration reporting in Spanish- and English-language TV news

<strong>Of American Slouch and English Fervour</strong><br /><em>David L. Andrews / University of Maryland</em>

Of American Slouch and English Fervour
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland

A revealing look into English and American football crowds, their historic relationships to the sport, and their complicated defiance of corporate interference in the game.

<strong>True Love Will Find Daniel Johnston in the End (on Your iPhone) </strong><br /><em> Quinn Miller / Hampshire College </em>

True Love Will Find Daniel Johnston in the End (on Your iPhone)
Quinn Miller / Hampshire College

<strong>Stage Left: <em>Glee</em> and the Textual Politics of Difference</strong><br /><em> Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine </em>

Stage Left: Glee and the Textual Politics of Difference
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine

A look at difference, marginalization, and minority politics in the new show Glee.

<strong>Being on Television </strong><br /><em> Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University </em>

Being on Television
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University

An examination of the holiday broadcast considering “liveness” and ontological themes revolving within television studies

<strong>Networking Families: <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> and the Values of Quality</strong><br /><em> Jordan Lavender-Smith / City University of New York</em>

Networking Families: Battlestar Galactica and the Values of Quality
Jordan Lavender-Smith / City University of New York

A consideration of the tropes of ‘quality’ in Battlestar Galactica.

<strong>New Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.</strong><br /><em>David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas</em>

New Media is Neither New nor Media. Discuss.
David Parry / University of Texas at Dallas

An exploration of the the continued use of the terms “media” and “new,” prevents us from focusing on how this change from analog to digital is more than just a media shift.

<strong>Reading Narrative Excess in MMA</strong><br /><em>Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst</em>

Reading Narrative Excess in MMA
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts-Amherst

An analysis of the psychodynamics of televised mixed martial arts and “pauses” as narrative excess

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