How the network enacts its own hierarchies, and perpetuates the essentialization and commodification of peoples from the region.
Read more »
Columns
Whose Media Is It, Anyway? Representation on the Caribbean International Network
Report from NYTVF Digital Day 2014
The New York TV Festival's "Digital Day" makes one wonder just how independent the digital TV landscape is.
Read more »
“Under the Vast Sky”: Cantopop Memories and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Against hegemonic memory-draining statist narratives and corporate projects, the Umbrella Movement is about remembering to struggle, and the struggle to remember.
Read more »
Announcing the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress
Josh Shepperd and Chris Sterling discuss a new national preservation initiative by the Library of Congress.
Read more »
Revisiting Region Codes
Understanding the DVD region code in 2014.
Read more »
Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards
How this year's ceremony's lack of narrative created discursive space filled in by everything but the production itself.
Read more »
MTV Shows Its Seams
MTV's 2014 VMA Awards visualize the music industry's feminist growing pains.
Read more »
Category Agnostic: The 2014 Emmy Nominations
As cases of so-called "category fraud" increase, the Emmy Awards' arbitrary points of distinction risk becoming the story.
Read more »
Beyond the Nominations: The Emmys and Representation
While we typically judge Emmy diversity through the nominees, campaigns and ballots offer other spaces to explore politics of representation.
Read more »
On Radio: Live Music Festivals as Satellite Radio’s Premium Content?
Sirius XM's recent live broadcast of the Governors Ball highlights the persistence of place, of musical “hotspots,” within the satellite radio universe.
Read more »
Gloriously Back to Front: The Craft of Criticism Conference
A report on the recent Craft of Criticism conference at University of Notre Dame.
Read more »
Console Your Passions: A 2014 CP Conference Report
This year's Console-ing Passions conference emphasized the heritage and pedigree of the organization, as well as assessed the future contours of feminist media studies as a field.
Read more »
Colbert’s Move to the Late Show
Risks, rewards, and a pair of empty shoes; how much can his political edge can he retain?
Read more »
The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)
How do we teach television aesthetics, and what does it mean to analyze or evaluate television aesthetics?
Read more »
Oscars 2014: It’s Time
The 2014 Oscar theme may have been “Heroes in Hollywood,” but the narrative that formed was the film industry’s contestable progress and diversity.
Read more »
