An Alternative Gem: The Spectacle Theater’s Unique Operative Structure
Kate Elora Rogers / The University of Texas at Austin
Using the microcinema The Spectacle Theater as a case study, Kate Elora Rogers examines paratexts of its programming to reveal the potential in studying DIY practices in alternative screening spaces.
Read moreThe Duffer Brothers as Fanboy Auteurs
Laurel P. Rogers / University of Texas at Austin
Laurel P. Rogers analyzes how the Duffer Brothers’ self-branding as affirmational “fanboy auteurs” affords them power and legitimacy even as, she argues, they engage in transformational practices that are more usually associated with fangirls.
Read moreLiberation and Learning from the 60s in One Night in Miami
Christina N. Baker / University of California, Merced
Christina N. Baker applies Audre Lorde’s musing on collective liberation to the film One Night in Miami to pose there is power in unity.
Read moreBundling Merch into the Comfort Economy
Alyx Vesey / University of Alabama
Alyx Vesey analyzes how artistic entrepreneurship in the music industry through the use of merchandise has changed in the wake of COVID-19 concert cancellations, as well as how this merchandise forms part of “a consumerist response to societal collapse.”
Read moreRebooting Whiteness, Complicating Latinidad: The Struggles of Latinx TV Remakes
Crystal Camargo / Northwestern University
Using Charmed and One Day at a Time as case studies, Crystal Camargo examines the ways in which representation in Latinx reboots is complicated and constructed by their white “original” texts.
Read moreFamily Brands: From the Nelsons to the Kardashians
Cynthia Meyers / College of Mount Saint Vincent
Cynthia Meyers theorizes the “family brand,” discussing examples from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Read moreBy Any Platforms Necessary: The Makeshift Infrastructures of Bogota’s Public School Communities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Andres Lombana-Bermudez / Universidad Javeriana
Andres Lombana-Bermudez reflects on how Colombian public school systems utilized Information Communication Technologies (ICT) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreLove in the Time of Coronavirus
Lauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida
Lauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill examine COVID-19 fan fiction on the Archive of Our Own to see whose experiences of the virus are present—and absent—in these stories.
Read moreOn the (In)Visibility of Female Gamers
Amanda C. Cote / University Of Oregon
Amanda C. Cote challenges the idea that women in gaming is a new trend, exploring how a continual surprise at women’s presence in gaming communities undermines their historical contributions in the field.
Read moreFrom Network Syndicator to Adult Disney: A Brief History Of Hulu
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Eleanor Patterson analyzes Hulu’s initial aim of adapting broadcast distribution logics into streaming distribution and the service’s contemporary shift to an “Adult Disney” service.
Read moreI Know That Song! Black Fans and the Familiarity of K-pop
Dayna Chatman / University of oregon
Dayna Chatman explores Black fans’ reactions to R&B influences heard and seen in K-pop music and videos.
Read moreSurplus Blackness
Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University Of Iowa
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.
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