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Tag: Screens

Seeing is Believing

March 19, 2007 Jennifer Warren/Independent Scholar 3 comments

by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar

Critics of photography envisioned a world where people had consumed the image and thought they had experienced the thing itself. It seems they weren’t far off the mark.

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Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Sundance 2006

February 10, 2006 Dan Leopard / St. Mary's College of California 2 comments

by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
A discussion of the small screens, Sundance, and the future of independent film distribution.

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Living Life in TiVo Time

October 21, 2005 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 4 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Robert Schrag examines how the proliferation of highly individualized and instantly gratifying technology like TiVo leads to the fracturing of various realities and interpersonal time and space.

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Reconsidering the Technological Limitations and Potential of Large Format

October 21, 2005 Mary L. Nucci / Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2 comments

by: Mary L. Nucci / Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
An examination of the state of IMAX film and how digital remastering of Hollywood films may affect the format.

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Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Supermarket

October 7, 2005 Dan Leopard / St. Mary's College of California 3 comments

by: Dan Leopard / University of Southern California
Dan Leopard considers the screens we ignore as we shop for food.

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Everything Will Flow

March 18, 2005 Will Brooker / Richmond University 20 comments

by: Will Brooker / Richmond University
In an article from 2000, seeking a word to describe the cross-platform convergence of early 21st century popular culture…I fixed on “overflow” as an update of Raymond Williams’ 1974 coinage, “flow.”

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Terrorists Watching TV

February 4, 2005 Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University 12 comments

by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
About a half hour into Antonia Bird’s The Hamburg Cell, a group of young Muslims are watching TV.

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My Big Flat Screen TV

November 19, 2004 Sharon Strover / University of Texas-Austin 45 comments

by: Sharon Strover / University of Texas at Austin
Our household finally succumbed to the lure of the big flat screen TV. I wonder what we’ve brought into the house that may not be as obvious as the big screen itself.

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The Invasion of the Screen People

September 20, 2004 Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University 10 comments

by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
It was late summer in the Heartland. A simpler time, with only vague fears of Y2K troubling my anticipation of brisk breezes and the deepening color of autumn.

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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
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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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