BILLBOARD’S HOT 100 CHART: INDUSTRIALIZED MAINSTREAMS AND CROSSOVERS
Luis E. Rivera-Figueroa / University of Texas at Austin
Luis Rivera-Figueroa questions the concepts of mainstream and crossover as categories constructed by industrial practices.
Read more“Life Is Business and Business Is Life”: The Big Shot with Bethenny and the Social Factory
Ryan David Briggs / University of texas at austin
Ryan David Briggs describes how The Big Shot with Bethenny reflects the increasing demands of the real world job search.
Read moreArt Imitates LIFE, NFT verifies ART: Walter Benjamin and Vault by CNN
Andy fischer Wright / University of Texas at Austin
Andy Fischer Wright examines the commodification of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by large media organizations in relation to Walter Benjamin’s (1935) “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”
Read moreI Need To Tell You Something: The Confessional Mode In Television
Alex Remington / University of Texas at Austin
Alex Remington explores the complicated set of logics and ethics in the confessional form in reality television.
Read moreIn on the Joke: Self-Aware Advertising in Comedy
Kellie Veltri / University of Texas at Austin
Kellie Veltri explores the concept and applications of self-aware product integration in television network comedies.
Read moreTHE EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE: DISRUPTION IN FOOTBALL AND TELEVISION
KATHRYN HARTZELL / UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Kathryn Hartzell discusses the failed European Super League and the influence of television rights and growing global audiences on football.
Read more“Cinema is Here to Stay”: Alamo Drafthouse and the Moviegoing Experience
Emily McTiernan / University of Texas at Austin
Emily McTiernan examines Alamo Drafthouse’s moviegoing model and its viability in the exhibition market.
Read moreAn Alternative Gem: The Spectacle Theater’s Unique Operative Structure
Kate Elora Rogers / The University of Texas at Austin
Using the microcinema The Spectacle Theater as a case study, Kate Elora Rogers examines paratexts of its programming to reveal the potential in studying DIY practices in alternative screening spaces.
Read moreThe Duffer Brothers as Fanboy Auteurs
Laurel P. Rogers / University of Texas at Austin
Laurel P. Rogers analyzes how the Duffer Brothers’ self-branding as affirmational “fanboy auteurs” affords them power and legitimacy even as, she argues, they engage in transformational practices that are more usually associated with fangirls.
Read moreLiberation and Learning from the 60s in One Night in Miami
Christina N. Baker / University of California, Merced
Christina N. Baker applies Audre Lorde’s musing on collective liberation to the film One Night in Miami to pose there is power in unity.
Read moreBundling Merch into the Comfort Economy
Alyx Vesey / University of Alabama
Alyx Vesey analyzes how artistic entrepreneurship in the music industry through the use of merchandise has changed in the wake of COVID-19 concert cancellations, as well as how this merchandise forms part of “a consumerist response to societal collapse.”
Read moreRebooting Whiteness, Complicating Latinidad: The Struggles of Latinx TV Remakes
Crystal Camargo / Northwestern University
Using Charmed and One Day at a Time as case studies, Crystal Camargo examines the ways in which representation in Latinx reboots is complicated and constructed by their white “original” texts.
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