A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kathryn Hartzell discusses the failed European Super League and the influence of television rights and growing global audiences on football.
Read moreLaurel 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 moreChristina 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 moreFlow has published articles from over 700 authors in its 17-year history – from the tenured senior scholar to the graduate student junior scholar. Flow‘s authors are spread all across the Americas – from New York to California and from Canada to Brazil – and across the globe – from England and Scotland to New Zealand and Australia, to Singapore and beyond. […]
Read moreThrough the work of Judylyn Ryan and Audre Lorde, Christina N. Baker explores filmmaker Kasi Lemmons’s films, Eve’s Bayou and Harriet, through epiphany, intuition, spirituality, and the erotic.
Read moreReflecting upon the trauma of living through the Covid-19 pandemic and reckoning with systemic racism, Scott Tulloch suggests trauma informed approaches to media studies pedagogy.
Read moreAlyx Vesey considers how musicians have made use of television as a medium for promotional appearances, music videos, and award shows in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreChristina N. Baker incorporates thinking on poetry, hip hop, and creativity to consider Black artistry in Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old-Version.
Read moreLuis Loya and Elaine Almeida utilize Communication Theory of Identity (CTI) to understand how hashtags and duet/remix affordances connect the multiplicity of queer identity performances across TikTok.
Read moreMaria Skouras explores how national tourism boards are fostering the “tourism imaginaries” of potential visitors while encouraging them to stay home during the COVID-19 crisis.
Read morePaxton Haven explores the current trend of virtual music festivals as both a continuation of the collective politics of dance cultures, but also a new frontier of industry intervention in a live music marketplace depleted by COVID-19.
Read moreDavid Church considers how a renewed interest in drive-in theaters as movie exhibition spaces, as well as spaces for religious services during the Covid-19 health crisis, brings further attention to politicization of public space.
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