A manifesta for feminist media criticism.
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Perspectives
Feminist. Media. Criticism. Is. (Part 2)
Feminist. Media. Criticism. Is. (Part 1)
I want to do what I can to help keep this thing—feminist media studies—going for as long as it’s needed. I want to be the feminist media scholar I want to see in the world.
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Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
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How Tavi Gevinson Restored my Love of Gramsci (and Hope for Feminism)
Rookie's Tavi Gevinson offers a feminist, anti-elitist model of Gramsci’s organic intellectual.
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Cultural Studies, TV Studies, & Empathy
What could cultural studies work on TV look like if we saw our function as facilitating conversations among our students (and ourselves) about social identity, privilege, and power centered on their and our differing engagements with and feelings about television programming?
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It’s Science Time! ‘Princess Scientists’ and Princess Bubblegum
Instead of taking science and decorating it with feminine elements, we need to embrace the possibilities of the princess and the scientist dissolving into each other to form a true ‘princess scientist.' Princess Bubblegum, from Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, creates a space in science where being feminine is acceptable.
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Midwifes and Melodrama: Call the Midwife & PBS
PBS perhaps hoped that BBC1’s Call the Midwife could be their next big hit, following on from the success of ITV1’s Downton Abbey. Faye Woods contemplates the significance of Call the Midwife's inability to match Downton Abbey's ratings and buzz in the US.
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Psy, Let’s talk about Gangnam Style
While Gangnam Style may run the risk of mocking K-pop and becoming the new Macarena, it may be worth the risk, as Psy has (temporary) increased the visibility of the Korean Wave within the US.
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NYFF 2012: We Say That God and the Imagination Are One [Part Four]
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Our fourth, and final collaboration with the Society for Cinema & Media Studies to review the New York Film Festival concludes with a discussion of Amor, Night Across the Street, and Holy Motors.
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Seeing is Disbelieving
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, an unexpected celebrity has emerged - Lydia Callis, a sign language interpreter who appeared on-screen alongside Mayor Bloomberg during his warnings in advance of the hurricane. But Callis, as a visible form of media access, makes it all too clear how access is usually hidden from view.
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When the Magic Kingdom Ate the Galactic Empire
For many, the announcement of the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney for over four billion dollars may have come as a shock.
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NYFF 2012: History Has Many Cunning Passages [Part Three]
Our third post on New York Film Festival 2012 is a collaboration with the Society for Cineman & Media Studies, and reviews three films from the festival: NO, Ginger and Rosa, and Not Fade Away.
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Ex-Pat TV: Technologies of TV Away from Home
How to access media from your homeland while abroad.
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On TLC, Television Studies, and the Specter of the Recent Past
Maureen Ryan calls for a history of lifestyle and its emergence as a dominant form of commercial programming in the US.
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When Professional Wrestling Gets Real
When little is off-limits in terms of storytelling fodder and anything can be expected, how can the audience tell when something truly unexpected happens?
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