Category: Lead Story

Connecting David Lynch’s texts through absences, holes, and secret passageways.

How do we determine the contemporary medium-specificity (or coherency?) of television?

A thought-provoking deconstruction of the place of race and authorship in video game culture.

Suze Orman’s tough love at the intersection of celebrity branding, television production, and politics.

The aesthetic of banality in the current economic crisis, and how it might offer an important resource for critical scholarship

An exploration of the relationships between collecting, migration of garbage, and artwork responding to waste.

The culture of the clip forms part of a longer history of collecting and re-presenting ephemeral media that is often ignored or forgotten.

Heather McIntosh’s contribution examines the changing modes of online film distribution, and how scarcely distributed documentaries are being made available via online streaming sites.

Warner’s contribution analyzes the way in which black women engage with texts within shows such as the Real Housewives franchise outside the bounds of whiteness.

Between true stories, original screenplays, faithful adaptations, and the spirit of the source text.

Hollis Griffin examines Sarah Palin’s discourse of conservative Americana.