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Over*Flow: New Year’s Eve in front of the TV, 1959: What was on, why does it matter, and where can I see it?
Kit MacFarlane / University of South Australia
Kit MacFarlane cross-references television archives to recreate and analyze the primetime schedule of New Year’s Eve 1959.
Read more“The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”: Christmas Classics Old and New
Kathleen Loock / University of Flensburg
Kathleen Loock compares definitive Christmas classics It’s a Wonderful Life and Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel to contemporary holiday movie releases from Netflix, exploring how the streaming service is using the niche to create Christmas movies for a global audience.
Read moreIn Praise of the Bad Transgender Object: Rocky Horror
Cáel m. Keegan / Grand Valley State University
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been the object of ongoing cultural fascination and criticism for its portrayal of transgender stereotypes. Cáel M. Keegan questions whether this “bad object†is redeemable in this exploration of the standards of representation in the transgender media archive.
Read moreSection 230 as American Tech’s “Soft Power” Secret Weapon
Sarah T. Roberts / University of California, Los Angeles
Analyzing recent Congressional testimony of social media and internet content firms, Sarah T. Roberts reveals the expanding “soft power” reach of Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996.
Read moreAdvocating on Behalf of Independent Musicians: Copyright Reform and Corporate Consolidation
Brian Fauteux / University of Alberta
Brian Fauteux takes readers through his experience participating in Canada’s copyright review process. The author particularly highlights how the current state of the market allows for large companies to have a great deal of control over artists.
Read moreGender, Place, and Nostalgia in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Helen Morgan-Parmett / University of Vermont
Analyzing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Helen Morgan-Parmett discusses the intersections of gender and urban crisis in nostalgic discourses surrounding New York’s past, present, and future.
Read moreFinding the ‘TV’ in TV News
Deborah L. Jaramillo / Boston University
Deborah L. Jaramillo contemplates television studies’ limited analysis of TV news and the importance of examining such texts as a genre.
Read moreA Public Records Request Rabbit Hole in the Study of Nontheatrical Distribution
Finley Freibert / Independent Scholar
Finley Freibert reveals the challenges of accessing public records and telling the history of gay, nontheatrical film distributor, John Samuel Bridges, in 1960s San Francisco.
Read moreTerrence Malick’s Architecture of the Domestic
Travis Warren Cooper / Butler University
Through a close reading of Malick’s Tree of Life, Travis Warren Cooper offers up a comparative analysis of architectural style found in Hollywood films.
Read moreOVER*FLOW: Millennial Angst and the Bad Mother from the News to Netflix
Miranda Brady / Carleton University
Miranda Brady explores the Good Mother/Bad Mother binary in the Loughlin/Huffman college admissions scandal and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician.
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