Netflix Poland ”” Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University
Sylwia Szostak explores the politics of Netflix for Poland’s Screenwriters.
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FIFA’s Fraught Recognition of the Women’s World Cup as Marketable Media Event
Charlotte Howell / Boston University
Charlotte Howell explores the struggles between FIFA and other stakeholders over valuing the 2023 Women’s World Cup in terms of investment and access.
Read moreCommunity Radio: Getting the Sonics Right
Josephine Coleman / Brunel University London
Dr. Josephine Coleman elaborates on how EDI efforts help community radio stations grow and become more equitable.
Read moreMaggie Rossman: In Memoriam
The Flow editorial team was enormously saddened to learn of Maggie Rossman’s passing. Maggie was a brilliant scholar and a bright light. She wrote a Flow article that was initially slated for publication in Volume 30, Issue 1. We will be publishing her final Flow article in a future issue. But, for now, we send our deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies […]
Read moreOver*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
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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreGazing 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.
Read moreWhen 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.
Read moreDisrupted 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
Read moreOur Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara
Baker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).
Read moreBlack Twitter is Dead”¦ But Its Spirit Will Live On
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina
Dr. Jabari Evans muses on Black Twitter and how its culture might continue after its demise.
Read moreLove, Death, and AI
Cait McKinney / SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Dr. Cait McKinney reflects on the heteronormativity of popular discourse on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots.
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