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Category: 22.03

Not Your Grandmother’s “Super”: Julia, Olivia and Waning Black Exceptionalism
Bambi Haggins / Arizona State University

January 25, 2016 Bambi Haggins / Arizona State University Leave a comment

Bambi Haggins compares and contextualizes Scandal‘s Olivia Pope to Julia‘s titular character played by Diahann Carroll to investigate the complicated ways Black exemplarism informs the televisual construction of these women and Blacks on television more generally.

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Mapping Media Retail in the Global Midwest: Elkhart, IN
Dan Herbert / University of Michigan

January 25, 2016 Daniel Herbert / University of Michigan Leave a comment

Dan Herbert explores the interaction of entertainment media retail sites with Latino/a population distribution over time in Elkhart, IN.

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The Limits of Infinite Scroll: Gifsets and Fanmixes as Evolving Fan Traditions Louisa Stein / Middlebury College

January 25, 2016 Louisa Stein / Middlebury College 3 comments

Louisa Stein highlights evolving fan practices by examining two aesthetic forms, the gifset and the fanmix, that have evolved within interfaces that emphasize abundant multiplicity and multidirectional flow.

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How To Save a Beauty Pageant: Donald Trump, Steve Harvey and The Memeticization of Miss Universe 2015
Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago / Arizona State University

January 25, 2016 Manuel Aviles-Santiago / Arizona State University One comment

Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago explores the intersections of pageants, politics, and social media in light of a newsworthy 2015 Miss Universe and pageants’ cultivation of media spreadability via “YouTube moments.”

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Victim + Bully = Love
Wendy Peters / Nipissing University

January 25, 2016 Wendy Peters / Nipissing University One comment

Wendy Peters examines the “victim + bully = love” narrative — the representation and rationalization of internalized homophobia and externalized violence as a precursor to same-sex romance — in teen television shows like Pretty Little Liars, 90210, and Glee.

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The Visual Discourse between Hammer Horror and Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
Garret Castleberry / Oklahoma City University

January 25, 2016 Garret Castleberry / Oklahoma City University 4 comments

Garrett Castleberry compares the Gothic horror tropes deployed by Showtime’s Penny Dreadful with Hammer Horror films by performing a discursive visual analysis of the two sets of texts.

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