Just Pretend: Elvis Girlies, Social Media and Embodied Play
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Eleanor Patterson explores how Elvis Girlies “play around” with history.
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Eleanor Patterson is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Auburn University, and her research focuses on broadcast history and distribution cultures. Eleanor’s work has appeared in publications like The Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, Television & New Media, and others. Her book, Bootlegging the Airwaves, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2024.
Just Pretend: Elvis Girlies, Social Media and Embodied Play
Digital Transmissions: Thinking Historically About Broadcasting and Electronic Sell-Through in the Digital Era
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Eleanor Patterson challenges the idea that the post-network era is defined by a break from prior distribution models, highlighting a long history of offering broadcast programming as singular, “on-demand” commodities.
Read moreFrom Network Syndicator to Adult Disney: A Brief History Of Hulu
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Eleanor Patterson analyzes Hulu’s initial aim of adapting broadcast distribution logics into streaming distribution and the service’s contemporary shift to an “Adult Disney” service.
Read moreUgly Crying, This is Us and the Discursive Construct of Emotional Excess
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Eleanor Patterson analyzes how the emotional excess of This is Us connects it to historically feminized theorizations of mass culture and melodrama.
Read moreTape Trading Professional Wrestling and the History of TV Distribution
Eleanor Patterson / Auburn University
Using professional wrestling as a case study to analyze unofficial broadcast distribution, Eleanor Patterson analyzes the role of tape trading and fan communities to the circulation of pro-wrestling media.
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