Over*Flow
Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University
Herold and Morse reassess the “bad object” status of the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros and discuss its deconstruction of cis gay masculinity.
Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University
Herold and Morse reassess the “bad object” status of the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros and discuss its deconstruction of cis gay masculinity.
Read moreThe Global Local: Geographies of Regional American Film Nonprofits
Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin
Regional American film nonprofits are embedded in and responsive to local communities, resources, and political contexts, and therefore are a productive site for media industries scholarship.
Read moreGazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope
Sophia Abbey/ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
A reflection on where surveillance and spectacle intersect with blackness in Jordan Peele’s Nope.
Read moreWhen I’m Super Mario 64: Exploring Nintendo Soundfont Covers of Beatles Music
Laura C. Brown / University of Texas at Austin
Laura C. Brown hops in a warp pipe to explore the world of Super Mario 64 soundfont covers of Beatles albums.
Read moreDisrupted Flow: The Indian Premier League (IPL) Rain Delay
Kathryn Hartzell / University of Texas at Austin
Kathryn Hartzell assesses how the IPL final’s rain delay interrupted transnational flow and exposed the industrial, technological, and ideological arrangements on which sports media operate
Read moreOur Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara
Baker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).
Read moreBlack Twitter is Dead… But Its Spirit Will Live On
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina
Dr. Jabari Evans muses on Black Twitter and how its culture might continue after its demise.
Read moreLove, Death, and AI
Cait McKinney / SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Dr. Cait McKinney reflects on the heteronormativity of popular discourse on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots.
Read moreChicago 1968 and the Kaleidoscopic Mosaic of the 1960s TV News Experience
Michael Socolow / University of Maine
Dr. Michael Socolow recounts how television coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ignited discussion about the accuracy of television reporting, in addition to raising questions about how viewers interpret TV news.
Read moreViewing Women Readers: Digital Culture and Feminist Close Reading
Michele White / Tulane University
Dr. Michele White shows how feminist forms of close reading are a productive method for studying digital media and culture.
Read moreDo we misremember Eternal September?
Kevin Driscoll / University of virginia
Kevin Driscoll reconsiders narratives of 1993’s Eternal September to argue these communities were not the end, but the beginning of a more open, inclusive internet.
Read moreQueer City: Interactive Storytelling through Twine as Queer Archival Resistance in Bangladesh
Mohammed Rashid / The University of Texas at Dallas
Mohammed Rashid explores how Twine, a digital media platform, and more specifically, the Queer City interactive project, acts as a clandestine method of queer archiving and archival resistance through which the experiences and stories of the Bangladeshi queer community may be protected, archived, and carefully circulated.
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