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The Costs of Hope in The Chair and The Bold Type
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University
Kelly Coyne addresses “cruel optimism” in The Chair and The Bold Type, critiquing how American capitalism motivates its workers with the mantra that advancement, and the power that comes with it, leads to satisfaction.
Visual Pleasures in Magic Mike’s Cinema
Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University
Nicole Erin Morse challenges the common understanding of Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (2015) as films that construct a female gaze by examining how the films establish a male homosocial gaze.
Read moreLogged in to You: Negotiating Algorithmic Address in Streaming Women’s Television
Cara Dickason / Northwestern University
Cara Dickason explores the relationship between women’s television and streaming services through the Netflix series, You.
Read more Portrait of an Art House during a Pandemic, Part One
Sarah E. S. Sinwell / University of Utah
Sarah E. S. Sinwell gives an account of how one art house cinema, the Salt Lake Film Society, managed through the pandemic.
Read moreGenres Fall Apart—Affective Combustion in the Belly of the Beast
Maggie Hennefeld / University of Minnesota
Maggie Hennefeld explores how, as global crises proliferate, the boundaries of the comedy genre begin to break down while their content takes on increasing valence.
Read moreOn Authorship, Auteur Apologism, and #MeToo in Film & Media Studies
Stefania Marghitu / Loyola University new orleans
Stefania Marghitu reflects on auteur apologism after #MeToo and outlines productive ways for media studies scholars and teachers to refocus conversations about authorship on marginalized artists and creators.
Read more “Just ’Bout That Action, Boss”: The Televisual Politics of Marshawn Lynch
Samantha N. Sheppard / Cornell University
Samantha N. Sheppard examines the televisual politics of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch’s defiant press conference performances and unruly and enigmatic star persona.
Read moreDramas of grief: television and mourning
Helen Wheatley / University of Warwick
Helen Wheatley explores the trend of families in television dramas who grapple with the processes of grief and mourning.
Read moreThe Costs of Hope in The Chair and The Bold Type
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University
Kelly Coyne addresses “cruel optimism” in The Chair and The Bold Type, critiquing how American capitalism motivates its workers with the mantra that advancement, and the power that comes with it, leads to satisfaction.
Read moreSeeing and Being Seen: Lingua Franca and Trans Asian Media Representation/Production
Erique Zhang / Northwestern University
Erique Zhang reflects on the tension in both trans and Asian American representation in Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca.
Read moreMAUDE & ME; OR, RESPONSIBILITIES OF A FEMINIST MEDIA CRITIC
MARIA SAN FILIPPO / EMERSON COLLEGE
Through analysis of representation of abortion on screen, Maria San Filippo illustrates the ways in which “Maude’s Dilemma” remains relevant to modern audiences and feminist media scholars.
Read moreThe Blurring Binaries of Black/Latinidad in US Popular Culture
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Isabel Molina-Guzmán explores how normative visual expectations around race and ethnicity in US casting culture impact the opportunities for Black/Latina/x actors.
Read more Framing Fandom History: The effects of whiteness on memorialization
Rukmini Pande / O.P. Jindal Global University
Rukmini Pande traces how mainstream narratives of fandom history and fandom spaces have been characterized by white-centricity, racism, and anti-Blackness.
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