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Category: 10.05

Television, participatory culture, and politics: the case of Indian Idol
Aswin Punathambekar / The University of Michigan

August 8, 2009 Aswin Punathambekar / University of Michigan 2 comments

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A Look Back at Michael Jackson
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

August 7, 2009 Konrad Ng / University of Hawai'i at Mānoa One comment

An examination of Michael Jackson’s impact on the considerations of racial diversity, compared with Kip Fulbeck’s contemporary project, “Part Asian, 100% Hapa.”

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Museum TV and Hollywood Films: How the Smithsonian Became Big Media’s “Pile of Loot”
Miranda J. Brady / Carleton University

August 7, 2009 Miranda J. Brady / Carleton University 52 comments

The success of “Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian” casts new light on a federal investigation of the museum’s secret contracts with big media outlets, and reveals a potentially troubling conflict of interest.

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Lady Gaga, Balls-Out: Recuperating Queer Performativity
Alexander Cho / FLOW Staff

August 7, 2009 Alex Cho 27 comments

Pop icon Lady Gaga can be read as queer for her purposeful, embodied, performative critique of the artifice of celebrity.

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On Hypersexual Filipina Video Ho: Demanding Powerful, Painful, Pleasurable and Political Critique
Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB

August 6, 2009 Celine Parreñas Shimizu / UCSB One comment

Revisiting the music video for the Black Eyed Peas’ “Bebot” in search of empowered Filipina subjectivity.

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Myth, the Numinous, and Cultural Studies
Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta

August 6, 2009 Ted Friedman / Georgia State University - Atlanta 18 comments

A renewal of interest in the concept of myth in cultural studies, tracing its journey from academic hot topic through new age buzz word towards a popular culture understanding of the term.

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Fieldnotes from a Rock Band Bar Night

August 6, 2009 Kiri Miller / Brown University 15 comments

Kiri Miller / Brown University

Performance ethnography: a critical look at the collaborative and social aspects of playing Rock Band.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

"I’m the Industry Baby”: The Political Economy of Lil Nas X
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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

Check out this call for papers from our colleagues! 10 days until submissions are due.

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13 Jan

Hey folks! We are officially extending this CFP until Sunday, January 15

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