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Texas in Close-Up: Exploring the Lone Star State’s Media Ecosystem
Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin

July 17, 2024 Alisa Perren / University of Texas at Austin One comment

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.

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Are two heads better than one? Creative collaborations and job sharing in the media industries
Eva Novrup Redvall / University of Copenhagen

April 24, 2024 Eva Novrup Redvall / University of Copenhagen Leave a comment

Eva Novrup Redvall considers how directors and other industry professionals collaborate through job sharing in the film and television industries.

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Speculative Affect: Streaming Television’s Solution to Late-Stage Capitalism
Peter Arne Johnson / University of Texas At Austin

August 3, 2022 Peter Arne Johnson / University of Texas at Austin Leave a comment

Peter Arne Johnson theorizes how pure play streaming services like Netflix have discursively deployed audience affect and speculation to inflate their market valuations.

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Failure, unmade films, and Hollywood
James Fenwick / Sheffield Hallam University

February 6, 2022 James Fenwick / Sheffield Hallam University 2 comments

James Fenwick explores Hollywood film history through archival research of the industry’s unmade films.

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Surplus Blackness
Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University Of Iowa

April 27, 2021 Alfred L. Martin Jr. / University of Iowa 2 comments

Alfred L. Martin, Jr. theorizes “surplus Blackness” in relation to the treatment of Black audiences in the culture industries.

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Over*Flow: “The Sun is Shining on AMC”: Meme Stocks & (Temporary?) Media Industry Reorganization
Peter Arne Johnson / Boston University

March 4, 2021 Peter Arne Johnson / Boston University One comment

Peter 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.

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A Public Records Request Rabbit Hole in the Study of Nontheatrical Distribution
Finley Freibert / Independent Scholar

November 28, 2019 Finley Freibert / Independent Scholar One comment

Finley Freibert reveals the challenges of accessing public records and telling the history of gay, nontheatrical film distributor, John Samuel Bridges, in 1960s San Francisco.

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What is a Soundtrack Album? Or, Spot the Soundtrack Album
Paul N. Reinsch / Texas Tech University

March 26, 2018 Paul Reinsch / Texas Tech University 3 comments

Paul Reinsch explores the complicated definition of soundtracks, and its meaning for the media industries more widely.

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It’s the Political Economy Stupid: The Case for Media Industries Studies in an Era of Fake News
Christopher M. Cox / Georgia State University

December 18, 2016 Christopher M. Cox / Georgia State University 2 comments

Christopher M. Cox argues for a media industries framework to better understand the production, dissemination, and consumption of fake news.

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