Archive for April, 2010
Sweatin’ Out the Shame
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
A look at classic VHS workout tapes.
Oh My, What Big Ambitions You Have!: ABC’s 1965 Revision of “Little Red Riding Hood”
Quinn Miller / Hampshire College
An examination of “The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood—or Oh Wolf, Poor Wolf” and its role in the camp sensibility emerging within U.S. media culture in the mid-1960s.
Introduction to Oogabooga Studies
David Parry / University of Texas, Dallas
As a follow-up to discussions of the “new” and “media” aspects of “new media” studies, Parry proposes the name “Oogabooga Studies” to ameliorate the overuse of the phrase “new media.”
The Return of the Digital Native: Interfaces, access, and racial difference in District 9
Kevin Hamilton & Lisa Nakamura / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
An analysis of “digital natives” and similar representations within science fiction films.
Tiger! Tiger! Burning Bright
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland
A look at the (crumbling) star identity of Tiger Woods.
Bing: An Illiterate Cure for Search Overload
Daren C. Brabham and
Annie Brabham / University of Utah
A consideration of how the search engine Bing “decides” for its users.
An Empty Set
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
A consideration of theoretical applications to the apparatus of television against the presence of cable signal frequency
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
‘Wanna be on top?’: America’s Next Top Model and evaluating presentational performance as televisual skill
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University
A comparison of the performance styles of American and Australian ‘Top Model’ hosts Tyra Banks and Johdi Meares.
Watching for Botox
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon
The visibility of botox on Damages leads the author to reflect on how cosmetic surgery appears on television and in public life, and why.
Marshall’s Children
Charles R. Acland / Concordia University
Re-situating Marshall McLuhan in media studies, in light of a new biography by Douglas Coupland.
Postfeminist Primary Colors: Coding Femininities in Media Culture
Hannah Hamad / Massey University
A discussion of the ways that femininities are conceptualized in postfeminism through color-coding.
The D2D Release: Notes on a Burgeoning Market
Amanda Klein / East Carolina University
Direct-to-DVD (D2D) films are often ignored by academic discourse, yet the study of D2D films offers an important contribution to the fields of both reception and genre studies.
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