Archive for October, 2015

She Works Hard for the Money/Man/Shoes/Herself/Her Sisters…

October 27, 2015
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She Works Hard for the Money/Man/Shoes/Herself/Her Sisters…

In the fourth and final installment of a limited series on Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, contributor Elizabeth Nathanson outlines the anthology's "Labors" section and argues that mediated depictions of femininity are always working hard in public and private spheres while striving for creativity, community, and sisterhood.
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A Very British Migrant Crisis: Paddington and the Children’s Film

October 22, 2015
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A Very British Migrant Crisis: <i>Paddington</i> and the Children’s Film

Amid Europe’s so-called “migrant crisis” and extensive media and government interest in immigration, Lincoln Geraghty looks at British children’s film Paddington’s compellingly topical contribution to discourses of migration.
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Value Creation Through Digital Commons: Complicating the Discourse

Value Creation Through Digital Commons: Complicating the Discourse

How do producers of digital commons establish relations with the market, and how do they create economic value through their practices? An attempt to go beyond common misconceptions is done through looking at the phenomenon of “open movies” production within the 3D Blender and 2D Synfig animation communities.
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“Bodies” That Matter

October 20, 2015
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“Bodies” That Matter

In part three of a limited series on Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn, contributor Kyra Hunting outlines the anthology's "Bodies" section in order to argue that critical consideration for women's media cultures facilitates a deeper understanding of embodiment in relation to community practices, self-presentation, and technology.
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Four: Reclamation

October 19, 2015
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Four: Reclamation

In her fourth and final post on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha Nochimson talks about loss as an organizing principle for Michael Moore's documentary Where to Invade Next and Don Cheadle's biopic Miles Ahead.
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Fall Premieres 2015: The Best and the Worst

October 18, 2015
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Fall Premieres 2015: The Best and the Worst

What have been the best and the worst new additions to TV this Fall?
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Reimagining Passions, Pleasures and Bad Lady Texts

October 13, 2015
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Reimagining Passions, Pleasures and Bad Lady Texts

In part two of a series on the anthology Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century, Kristen Warner discusses the "Passions" section, where scholars consider how pleasure functions for women viewers who use female-centric media texts as models for who they want to be and what they want to...
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Teaching with Arclight and POE

October 12, 2015
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Teaching with Arclight and POE

Today we publicly launch our software, Project Arclight, a new digital tool you can take advantage of in your research and the classroom.
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Three: Only Connect?

October 12, 2015
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Three: Only Connect?

In part three of her series on the 2015 New York Film Festival, Martha Nochimson explores the thematic significance of connection in Jia Zhang-ke's Mountains May Depart, James D. Solomon's The Witness, and Stephane Brizé's Measure of a Man.
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Film-School Education in India: Negation and Assimilation

October 8, 2015
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Film-School Education in India: Negation and Assimilation

Kiranmayi Indraganti offers an insider view of production training in India's film schools, addressing the dynamic negotiation of dominant industry styles and arthouse realism against a backdrop of fast-globalizing cultures and audiences.
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Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century

October 6, 2015
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Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century

In the first installment of a four-part series on the new anthology Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn, editor Elana Levine outlines some of the motivations for this collection as well as its guiding theoretical and thematic frameworks.
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Fall Premieres 2015: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

October 6, 2015
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Fall Premieres 2015: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

If Jon Stewart saved or ruined democracy -- depending on who you ask -- what about Trevor Noah?
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Two: The Banality of . . .

October 5, 2015
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New York Film Festival 2015 Part Two: The Banality of . . .

Post by Martha P. Nochimson, Critic William Wordsworth made us believe in the ecstasy of the humble daffodil. Hannah Arendt isolated the potential for evil in the ordinary acts of people doing the business of their society. There is a long history that affirms that banality isn’t banal, for better and for worse. Three...
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