A Love letter to ALT Black Girls
KáLyn Banks Coghill / Virginia Commonwealth University
KáLyn Banks Coghill details and describes the world and work of alt(erntative) Black girls.
Read moreFrom “Relevance” to “Reckoning” or, Channeling Black Lives Matter on TV – Part Two
Brandy Monk-Payton / Fordham University
In the second part of her series focusing on Black Lives Matter television, Brandy Monk-Payton interrogates the reboot of The Wonder Years as a site for nostalgia and sentimentalism as constitutive of Black subjectivity.
Read moreAND JUST LIKE THAT… ADDRESSING THE FEMALE INVISIBILITY OF THE MIDDLE
Betty Kaklamanidou / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Betty Kaklamanidou addresses And Just Like That… and the quasi-invisibility of women in their late forties and fifties on television.
Read moreLAW AND ORDER AND TV CRIME: FIGHTING FOR NARRATIVE CONTROL ON THE RADIO CRIME SITCOM
Catherine Martin / Denison University
Catherine Martin describes the dynamics of power and gender in the way actors and producers used their voices in detective radio shows.
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Quinn Miller explores the music-TV-publishing industry through a discussion of the 1998 novel Floating published by MTV Books.
Read moreRacebending the “Superhero Girlfriend”
Ravynn K. Stringfield / William & Mary
Ravynn K. Stringfield discusses the implications of racebending in superhero narratives, especially in relation to Black women and misogynoir.
Read moreOver*FLow: “It’s not dark humor if it’s not your trauma – you’re just bad people”: The exploitative nature of TikTok meme cultures
Moa Eriksson Krutrök / UmeA University, Sweden
Moa Eriksson Krutrök explores the ways social media like TikTok can offer individuals social support to process grief and trauma. Unfortunately, meme culture can radically recontextualize the personal and exploit already vulnerable people.
Read moreTechnical Failures as Symptoms of Social Success on Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party
Kara Carmack / The University of Texas at Austin
Kara Carmack historicizes the counterhegemonic technical failures on Glenn O’Brien’s public access TV Party.
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James Fenwick explores Hollywood film history through archival research of the industry’s unmade films.
Read moreTraces of Failure in Skateboarding Videos
Sander Hölsgens / Leiden University and Paul O’Connor / University of Exeter
Sander Hölsgens and Paul O’Connor locate the persistent presence of failure within the evolution of skateboarding videos.
Read moreBorn into Failure: Disrupting Narratives of the WNBA Through Remembrance of the abl
Dafna Kaufman / University of North carolina at Chapel Hill
Dafna Kaufman explores media representation of the American Basketball League, positing it was born into failure well before the creation of the WNBA.
Read moreThe Fate of Mobile Video Shorts on Quibi and Kakao TV
Jennifer M. Kang / Queensland University of Technology
Jennifer M. Kang compares Quibi and Kakao TV to reconsider notions of failure on mobile streaming platforms.
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