A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Selena Dickey argues that the growth of nationwide, synchronous television service was a much more contingent, incremental, and local process than most media historians have previously acknowledged.
Read moreRahul Mukherjee reviews some recent trends in media distribution studies.
Read moreEmily West details the shift towards the consumption of media-as-a-service and its implications for audience subjectivity in the streaming era.
Read moreEleanor Patterson analyzes Hulu’s initial aim of adapting broadcast distribution logics into streaming distribution and the service’s contemporary shift to an “Adult Disney” service.
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 moreRoderik Smits considers how online streaming and transactional platforms have responded to the mass closure of movie theaters during the Covid-19 health crisis.
Read moreMike Van Esler considers the role of content aggregators and offers an ecological framework that focuses on the supraplatforms of the streaming media industry.
Read moreSarah E. S. Sinwell reflects on Sundance 2020’s biggest films and distribution deals, as well the diversity of the directors at the festival.
Read moreFinley 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 moreJoshua Braun explores the relationship between distribution and conceptions of the public, from early postal networks to social media, and discusses the growing disconnect between inclusive public interest and the market-driven logics that propel corporate interests.
Read moreEvan Elkins discusses live television piracy, questions its disruptive power, and contrasts it with former understandings of media piracy and televisual flow.
Read moreCasey McCormick analyzes the relationship of the season finale cliffhanger to the economic, formal, and fandom elements of television, focusing in particular on the season 6 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
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