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A Love letter to ALT Black Girls
KáLyn Banks Coghill / Virginia Commonwealth University

March 14, 2022 KáLyn Banks Coghill / Virginia Commonwealth University 13 comments

KáLyn Banks Coghill details and describes the world and work of alt(erntative) Black girls.

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AND JUST LIKE THAT… ADDRESSING THE FEMALE INVISIBILITY OF THE MIDDLE
Betty Kaklamanidou / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

March 14, 2022 Betty Kaklamanidou / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 3 comments

Betty Kaklamanidou addresses And Just Like That… and the quasi-invisibility of women in their late forties and fifties on television.

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From “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV – Part Two
Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University

March 14, 2022 Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University 3 comments

In the second part of her series focusing on Black Lives Matter television, Brandy Monk-Payton interrogates the reboot of The Wonder Years as a site for nostalgia and sentimentalism as constitutive of Black subjectivity.

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I Want My MTV Books History
Quinn Miller / University of Oregon

March 14, 2022 Quinn Miller / University of Oregon 2 comments

Quinn Miller explores the music-TV-publishing industry through a discussion of the 1998 novel Floating published by MTV Books.

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LAW AND ORDER AND TV CRIME: FIGHTING FOR NARRATIVE CONTROL ON THE RADIO CRIME SITCOM
Catherine Martin / Denison University

March 14, 2022 Catherine Martin / Denison University 6 comments

Catherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.

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Racebending the “Superhero Girlfriend”
Ravynn K. Stringfield / William & Mary

March 14, 2022 Ravynn K. Stringfield / William & Mary 7 comments

Ravynn K. Stringfield discusses the implications of racebending in superhero narratives, especially in relation to Black women and misogynoir.

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Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
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20 Sep

New in Over*Flow: @renherold and @cinefeminism examine the deconstruction of cis gay masculinity in the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros, reassessing its "bad object" status. Read more here: https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/09/over-flow-gender-sex-bros/

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16 Aug

NOPE is about the eye of the camera, but also Black defiance of it. Read Sophia Abbey's brief but excellent piece at @FlowTV, "Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope." #OpenAccess
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/08/gazing-upwards/

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2 May

Happy Tuesday, and happy Volume 29.07 release day! The final issue of Flow in the spring features work from @baker_r_r, @Naledgesince82, @caitmckinney, @MichaelSocolow, and Michele White! Read the full issue here: http://flowjournal.org

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7 Apr

TGIF!! Celebrate by reading vol. 29.06-up on the site now. Thx to @jenholt13 @rebeccasholt @kevindriscoll and @TrueIcaRash for their contributions!!

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