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I Know That Song! Black Fans and the Familiarity of K-pop
Dayna Chatman / University of oregon

May 2, 2021 Dayna Chatman / University of Oregon One comment

Dayna Chatman explores Black fans’ reactions to R&B influences heard and seen in K-pop music and videos.

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Surplus Blackness
Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University Of Iowa

April 27, 2021 Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University of Iowa 2 comments

Alfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.

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Selenidad 2.0: Dispatches from the Digital Sphere
María Elena Cepeda / Williams College

April 27, 2021 María Elena Cepeda / Williams College Leave a comment

María Elena Cepeda discusses how Selena Quintanilla’s legacy is constructed in WBUR Boston/Futuro Studios’ Anything for Selena podcast and Netflix’s Selena: The Series.

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A Look into Digital Blackface, Culture Vultures, & How to Read Racism like Black Critical Audiences
Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington

April 27, 2021 Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph / University of Washington 11 comments

Lando Tosaya and Ralina L. Joseph illuminate some of the ways critical Black audiences resist culture vultures, digital Blackface, and performative activism.

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Everytown, USA, Everyshow, USA: Riverdale as Intentionally Intertextual
Caroline N. Bayne / UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, TWIN CITIES

April 27, 2021 Caroline N. Bayne / University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Leave a comment

Exploring the intertexuality of The CW’s Riverdale (2017–present), Caroline N. Bayne focuses on the way that the series exploits the tension between midcentury nostalgia and the darker teen pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s.

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The Visceral in Latinx Horror
Orquidea Morales / State University of New York, Old Westbury

April 27, 2021 Orquidea Morales / State University of New York, Old Westbury Leave a comment

By considering the visceral response Latinx viewers have to images of terror, Orquidea Morales argues that we can expand the generic boundaries of Latinx horror to include films that examine the violence of migration and borders.

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Tara Coughlin examines the usefulness of the creative labor of video essayists to streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix. @TaraCough

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Hannah Wold traces how the horror text, Scream: The TV Series, received reviews that precluded it from discourses of quality and the distinction granted to the Scream film franchise.

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