A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Alisa Perren welcomes readers to Flow’s Special Issue on the Texas media industries by describing the complexities of defining and building a media industry at the state and local level.
Read moreEva Novrup Redvall considers how directors and other industry professionals collaborate through job sharing in the film and television industries.
Read morePeter Arne Johnson theorizes how pure play streaming services like Netflix have discursively deployed audience affect and speculation to inflate their market valuations.
Read moreJames Fenwick explores Hollywood film history through archival research of the industry’s unmade films.
Read moreAlfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.
Read morePeter Arne Johnson examines the broader industrial and sociopolitical reverberations of the recent market shortening of Game Stock stock by a community of retail investors from the subreddit r/wallstreetbets.
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 morePaul Reinsch explores the complicated definition of soundtracks, and its meaning for the media industries more widely.
Read moreChristopher M. Cox argues for a media industries framework to better understand the production, dissemination, and consumption of fake news.
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