Protected: Outside YouTube, Inside Netflix: Bo Burnham and Contemporary Production Culture
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Protected: Outside YouTube, Inside Netflix: Bo Burnham and Contemporary Production Culture
Cinema’s First Nasty Women (Or, How to Record a Celebrity Video Intro)
Maggie Hennefeld / University of Minnesota
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 more“Name One Male Director”: Gender, Genre, and Authorship in Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck
Stefania Marghitu / Loyola University New Orleans
Stefania Marghitu explores the intersections between gender, genre, and authorship via Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck.
Read moreGenres Fall Apart—Affective Combustion in the Belly of the Beast
Maggie Hennefeld / University of Minnesota
Maggie Hennefeld explores how, as global crises proliferate, the boundaries of the comedy genre begin to break down while their content takes on increasing valence.
Read moreRe-Watching Omar: Moesha, Black Gayness and Shifting Media Reception
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. / University of Iowa
Alfred L. Martin, Jr.’s media reception analysis explores how viewers make sense of 1990s representations of Black queer characters in UPN’s Moesha (1996-2001).
Read moreReflections of an Unintentional and Underqualified Social Media Micro-influencer Lego Grad Student / Somewhere on the West Coast
The creator of the popular “webcomic,” Lego Grad Student, reflects on becoming a “micro-influencer,” the emotional toll of academia, and the function of social media with a dose of dry wit.
Read moreOf Nasty, Unlikeable Women: Veep and the Comedic Female Anti-Hero
Shweta Khilnani / Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
Shweta Khilnani examines female comedic anti-heroes through Selena Meyer’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) “performance of failure” in Veep, comparing her with Leslie Knope, the optimistic and sincere heroine of Parks and Recreation, and televisual male anti-heroes.
Read moreTV Critics and Taste Culture, or Why Everyone Ignored Oxygen’s Funny Girls
Stephanie Brown / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie Brown explores the ways in which entrenched taste cultures and gendered hierarchies led critics to dismiss and disparage Oxygen’s docu-drama Funny Girls.
Read moreWomen Together, Not Alone: An Alternative Feminist Legacy for The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bonnie J. Dow / Vanderbilt University
Bonnie J. Dow looks at the legacy of Mary Tyler Moore and feminism, the feminist movements of the 1970’s, and the Women’s March of 2017, and reminds us of the importance of strong female communities.
Read moreMy Life with Mary: Remembering The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Jane Feuer / University of Pittsburgh
Jane Feuer looks back on what The Mary Tyler Moore Show meant to her as a college student and then as a television scholar.
Read moreLaura Petrie and Performance as Wifely Duty
Annie Berke / Hollins University
Annie Berke discusses Mary Tyler Moore’s portrayal of Laura Petrie to examine the fluid boundary between work and home in The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Read moreSupport Your Local Daughter: Celebrating Mary Tyler Moore’s Glimpse at Maternal Anxiety
Emily Hoffman / Arkansas Tech University
Emily Hoffman discusses the ways in which The Mary Tyler Moore Show demonstrates the possible messiness of motherhood and daughterhood without relying on sitcom conventions.
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