A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Ashlynn d’Harcourt explores the ways in which comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher stealthily center themselves on screen and in doing so, reposition their non-normative identities as conventional, further normalizing their subversiveness.
Read moreRusty Hatchell examines the shift in economic assertions regarding runaway production in Vancouver, British Columbia through high-budget sci-fi television.
Read moreJuan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the aesthetic fetishism of subway design risks distorting the materiality of and politics of transportation and communication infrastructure.
Read moreAshlynn d’Harcourt explores gender-based double standards for comedians through an analysis of the media backlash to Kathy Griffin’s participation in a photo shoot with a Trump mask covered in fake blood. Stand-up is conceptualized as a descendant of vaudeville and anarchistic comedy to better understand the comedian’s craft and motivations.
Theodore Yurevitch examines the band Gorillaz and their 2017 music video for “Hallelujah Money,” focusing on the implications of hyper-mediation and how life might still go on in an increasingly post-human world.
Read moreStephanie Brown explores the ways in which entrenched taste cultures and gendered hierarchies led critics to dismiss and disparage Oxygen’s docu-drama Funny Girls.
Read moreAnthony P. McIntyre reflects on cultural representations of robots as cute in recent films and media, relating such constructions to contemporary capitalist labor dynamics and threats.
Read moreRemembering Mary Tyler Moore, Gerald Walton addresses the personal possibilities and pitfalls of identifying with the character of Mary Richards from a queer perspective.
Read moreDavid Greven explores the masculine and queer representations of the seventh season of AMC’s The Walking Dead in relation to 90s teen comedies, the Judd Apatow school of Beta Males, and alt-right white nationalism.
Read moreThe Flow 2018 organizers are proud to present our preliminary conference schedule featuring 31 roundtable panels. Check back later for more details about our receptions and other events. This year’s conference roundtables will take place at the Texas Union (UNB) and the Belo Media Center (BMC) on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Please see our conference […]
Read moreThank you to those who have submitted both questions and responses for this year’s Flow Conference. The response call is closed, but please continue checking in for more updates. Audience Generations: Millennials, “Becomers,” and Beyond Generational logics guide TV programming, marketing, and branding. These logics are in a state of flux as TV producers reimagine the youth audiences that come […]
Read moreIn this post, Nicholas Sammond continues his discussion of teaching Disneyland as text. Using Lefebvre, he illustrates the value of space for discerning and analyzing textuality in the classroom.
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