Archive for January, 2011
Bromance and the Boys of Boston Legal
Kelli Marshall / University of Toledo
Marshall explores the homosocial “bromance” of Alan Shore and Denny Crane in “Boston Legal” leading up to the series’ climax.
1979 is 2011: Post-Punk on the Road Again
Norma Coates / University of Western Ontario
Coates waxes nostalgic as the punk bands who defined p
Problems in “Wellywood”: Rethinking the politics of transnational cultural labor
Bridget Conor / Goldsmiths College, University of London
Bridget Conor examines the politics of transnational cultural labor in last fall’s Hobbit dispute.
Let’s All Read this Text
Ann Johnson / Cal State University, Long Beach
An exploration of audience response to satire and the “ridiculous” through a video about a banana.
Disaster Zones and the Performance of Television
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
The disastrous flooding in Queensland, AU, calls into question the way in which television engages with local communities during moments of crisis.
Haunting Crime: the Gothic, the Grotesque and the Paranormal
Yvonne Tasker / University of East Anglia
Tasker examines the linkage between the stylized traditions of the Gothic and the crime genre.
The Myth of Amateur Crowds
Daren Brabham / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A more critical lens is held up to the concept of “crowdsourcing,” dispelling several myths surrounding the role of the amateur in cultural and commercial production.
Zombie Gentrification
Christopher Lockett / Memorial University
An appraisal of AMC’s The Walking Dead and how the show participates in the zombie genre’s shift from B-grade schlock to “Quality TV” and mainstream Hollywood.
Black Guy Corner: What the Upfront Photos Say about the State of TV, Part 2 / Cindy Conaway and Sheila Marie Aird / SUNY Empire State College
This article, the second in an ongoing series, offers a critical examination of race in television networks’ “upfronts,” the photographs distributed to promote new shows. Does the television industry reinforce hegemony through the images used to promote these shows?
Wikileaks’ Lessons For Media Theory and Politics
Jayson Harsin / The American University of Paris
The myriad controversies surrounding Wikileaks holds lessons about changing relations between new and old media forms and production; attention, circulation, media capital and celebrity; political economy and journalism; and even democracy and international relations.
Advertising and Celebrity Endorsement in Burma
Andrew King / Consumer Research and Communications Consultant
An examination of the use of celebrity image in Burmese advertising.
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