Over*Flow
Over*Flow: “One Train!”: Race, Gender and Class in Snowpiercer
Riziki Millanzi / University of Sussex
Riziki Millanzi assesses the Snowpiercer television series depiction of intersectional politics, arguing the show ignores the nuances and varied experiences of marginalized peoples to oppression.
The persistence of the soul: the afterlife in postsecular television
Helen Wheatley / University of Warwick
Helen Wheatley discusses the recent proliferation of afterlife-themed television shows and how creators navigate multiple conceptions of “post-death experience.”
Read moreCinema’s First Nasty Women (Or, How to Record a Celebrity Video Intro)
Maggie Hennefeld / University of Minnesota
Maggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive.
Read more“Name One Male Director”: Gender, Genre, and Authorship in Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck
Stefania Marghitu / Loyola University New Orleans
Stefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck.
Read moreSelling Smart TV Surveillance
CARA DICKASON / NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Cara Dickason examines how corporations sell Smart TVs as domestic surveillance technologies through gendered formulas.
Read moreWere You Looking at the Woman in the Red Dress? The Male Gaze in The Matrix
Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University
Nicole Erin Morse examines how The Matrix (1999) interrupts and deconstructs the male gaze.
Read morePortrait of an Art house during a pandemic, part 2
Sarah E. S. Sinwell / university of utah
Sarah E.S. Sinwell details how one art house cinema continues to adapt to the pandemic while serving its local community.
Read moreBridgerton’s Romance with Racial Nostalgia
Isabel Molina-Guzmán / University of illinois
Isabel Molina-Guzmán discusses how Bridgerton‘s escapist, colorblind narrative discursively produces a racial nostalgia that simultaneously erases unpleasant histories of racial conflict, generates pleasure in non-white audiences, and maintains white subjectivity.
Read moreOver*Flow: “One Train!”: Race, Gender and Class in Snowpiercer
Riziki Millanzi / University of Sussex
Riziki Millanzi assesses the Snowpiercer television series depiction of intersectional politics, arguing the show ignores the nuances and varied experiences of marginalized peoples to oppression.
Read moreFraming Georgia: Thinking Through the Question of Trans Visibility in Framing Agnes
Erique Zhang, Northwestern University
Erique Zhang explores the history of trans visibility through a closer look at the 2022 documentary, Framing Agnes.
Read moreOscar and Me; Or, Further Reflections on Responsibilities of a Feminist Film Critic
Maria San filippo / Emerson College
Maria San Filippo examines the complicated history of women’s voices in the Film Academy.
Read moreEven Mario lost his job: Insecurity and unionization in video games
Kate Fortmueller / University of Georgia
Kate Fortmueller explores the cultural workplaces of the tech entertainment industries through the recent voice actor strike and video game unionization efforts in the video game industry.
Read moreA Love letter to ALT Black Girls
KáLyn Banks Coghill / Virginia Commonwealth University
KáLyn Banks Coghill details and describes the world and work of alt(erntative) Black girls.
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