Katherine E. Morrissey explores the evolution of the romantic comedy and its audience since the 1980s in order to understand the contemporary “rebirth” of these films.
Ryan Stoldt compares and contrasts interactive television film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and video game Until Dawn to draw out how the formal elements of seemingly similar media can result in different types of audience engagement.
Rather than policing the boundaries of what constitutes a visual album, Laurel Westrup examines what is quintessential to the music video form using The Lumineers’ “Gloria” as a key text.
While the industry frames cord-cutting as a “life hack,” Matthew Dewey considers the social consequences that cord-cutting has on a city’s cable franchise fee.
As “Hot Girl Summer” has officially come to a close, Danielle Williams traces the evolution of a catchphrase into a branding strategy for freshman rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
Jennifer Hessler discusses how Nielsen’s new machine learning systems are leading the drive to make linear TV addressable and what this means for the future of broadcasting.
