A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Maggie Hennefeld discusses efforts to curate 99 silent films spotlighting early film feminism, and discusses the challenges of navigating the early feminist film archive.
Read moreCatherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.
Read moreUsing 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.
Read moreKit MacFarlane cross-references television archives to recreate and analyze the primetime schedule of New Year’s Eve 1959.
Read moreLamiyah Bahrainwala reflects on FLOW 2018’s “Media(ted) Archives: The Politics of Saving & Making Media Histories” roundtable and the need to rethink “bad archives.”
Read moreKate Cronin takes the Mad Men collection at the Harry Ransom Center as a case study to consider the role archives and archivists play in constructing critical conceptions of contemporary television authorship.
Read moreJeremy Wade Morris explores the oddities and challenges that podcasts present as digital objects.
Read moreEric Hahn explores how user-generated digital databases complicate our understanding of the nature of reportage, history, and news coverage.
Read moreIn this Special Issue, Josh Shepperd outlines the directives and goals of the Radio Preservation Task Force of the National Recording Preservation Board with the Library of Congress.
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