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  • The Global Local: Geographies of Regional American Film Nonprofits
    Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin

    Regional American film nonprofits are embedded in and responsive to local communities, resources, and political contexts, and therefore are a productive site for media industries scholarship.

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  • Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope
    Sophia Abbey/ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

    A reflection on where surveillance and spectacle intersect with blackness in Jordan Peele’s Nope.

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  • When I’m Super Mario 64: Exploring Nintendo Soundfont Covers of Beatles Music
    Laura C. Brown / University of Texas at Austin

    Laura C. Brown hops in a warp pipe to explore the world of Super Mario 64 soundfont covers of Beatles albums.

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  • Gujarat Titan Batting in the IPL Final 2023

    Disrupted Flow: The Indian Premier League (IPL) Rain Delay
    Kathryn Hartzell / University of Texas at Austin

    Kathryn Hartzell assesses how the IPL final’s rain delay interrupted transnational flow and exposed the industrial, technological, and ideological arrangements on which sports media operate

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Volume 29, Issue 8

The Global Local: Geographies of Regional American Film Nonprofits
Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin

August 3, 2023 Hannah Wold / University of Texas at Austin

Gazing Upwards: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Resistance in Nope
Sophia Abbey/ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

August 3, 2023 Sophia Abbey-Kuipers / University of Texas at Austin

When I’m Super Mario 64: Exploring Nintendo Soundfont Covers of Beatles Music
Laura C. Brown / University of Texas at Austin

August 3, 2023 Laura C. Brown / University of Texas at Austin
Gujarat Titan Batting in the IPL Final 2023

Disrupted Flow: The Indian Premier League (IPL) Rain Delay
Kathryn Hartzell / University of Texas at Austin

August 3, 2023 Kathryn Hartzell / University of Texas at Austin

*Most Recent Issues*

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R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara

May 2, 2023 R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara

Black Twitter is Dead… But Its Spirit Will Live On
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina

May 2, 2023 Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina

Love, Death, and AI
Cait McKinney / SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

May 2, 2023 Cait McKinney / Simon Fraser University

Chicago 1968 and the Kaleidoscopic Mosaic of the 1960s TV News Experience
Michael Socolow / University of Maine

May 2, 2023 Michael Socolow / University of Maine

Viewing Women Readers: Digital Culture and Feminist Close Reading
Michele White / Tulane University

May 2, 2023 Michele White / Tulane University

29.06

Do we misremember Eternal September?
Kevin Driscoll / University of virginia

April 3, 2023 Kevin Driscoll / University of Virginia
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Queer City: Interactive Storytelling through Twine as Queer Archival Resistance in Bangladesh
Mohammed Rashid / The University of Texas at Dallas

April 3, 2023 Mohammed Rashid / UT Dallas

“Don’t Talk Yourself To Death”: Visualizing Information Security at the NSA
Jennifer Holt / University of California, Santa Barbara

April 3, 2023 Jennifer Holt / UCSB

Forget Jeff Bezos. Learn the Name Danni Ashe.
Becky Holt / Concordia University.

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Over*Flow

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Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University

September 20, 2023 Lauren Herold / Kenyon College and Nicole Erin Morse / Florida Atlantic University

Herold and Morse reassess the “bad object” status of the 2022 semi-satirical gay rom-com Bros and discuss its deconstruction of cis gay masculinity.

Over*Flow: “Blonde is a Kind of Person”: A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly coyne / Northwestern University

March 22, 2023 Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University

Over*Flow: Fan Demographics on Archive of Our Own
Lauren Rouse & Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida

February 22, 2023 Lauren Rouse and Mel Stanfill / University of Central Florida

Over*Flow: Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

January 27, 2023 Dan Vena / Queen's University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto
Flow is a critical forum on media and culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow’s mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary media.

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Over*Flow: “It’s Not Steroids, It’s Testosterone!”: Deconstructing Gender and Sex in Bros (2022)
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"Blonde is a Kind of Person": A Cultural History of the Dumb Blonde
Kelly Coyne / Northwestern University

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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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