Author: Rusty Hatchell / University of Texas at Austin
Rusty Hatchell is a PhD student in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research generally looks at the cultural and industrial relations between location and production practice, focusing mostly on science fiction, fantasy, and superhero television filmed in the United States and Canada. His M.A. thesis, Sci-Fi TV in the Great White North: The Development of Vancouver as a Science Fiction Media Capital, explored how the multi-channel transition of the Hollywood television industry cultivated a high-demand for content production and ultimately led to a wave of science fiction, horror, and supernatural productions in Vancouver. He currently has an article forthcoming in Middle West Review connecting the Albertan production culture of Fargo to the rural regionality of the Canadian Prairies and the American Midwest.
Special Projects
Over*Flow: COVID-19 Conversations
COVID-19 has changed every facet of life around the world. As we live through this moment of historic change, we offer Flow as a space to parse out issues affecting the pedagogies and research interests of film and media studies scholars across the globe. Many instructors in cinema and media studies will be teaching online over the next few months; […]
Read moreThe Cancellation of Swamp Thing and the Precarity of DC Universe
Rusty Hatchell / University of Texas at Austin
Rusty Hatchell examines the industrial implications of the sudden cancellation of DC Universe original series, Swamp Thing, amidst the recent acquisition of Time Warner and DC Entertainment by AT&T.
Read moreThe Future of B.C.: Vancouver as Sci-Fi Television’s Ideal Media Capital
Rusty Hatchell / University of Texas at Austin
Rusty Hatchell examines the shift in economic assertions regarding runaway production in Vancouver, British Columbia through high-budget sci-fi television.
Read more