In part one of their conversation, Cory Barker and Drew Zolides discuss the Network's impact on WWE's storytelling and its financials.
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Perspectives
WWE Network’s 1-Year Anniversary: A Conversation (Part 1)
The Back-story: The Feminist Achievement of Agent Carter
Marvel’s Agent Carter’s has been the center of many feminist critiques since its premiere earlier this year. Some praise the show as a victory for feminists and female fans, since Peggy Carter is the first female protagonist in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe franchise, while others criticize it for its blatantly obvious feminist messages. While I do...
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Keep it 100: The Nightly Show Flips the Script on “Fake” News
As an obsessive fan of the genre that has become known—somewhat inaccurately—as “fake news,” I was incredibly curious to see where Larry Wilmore, the host of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show, would take the genre. Wilmore faced the challenging task of replacing The Colbert Report, a show that had brilliantly satirized right-wing punditry. Colbert...
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The More You Know About Cross-Promotion
Was Katy Perry's Super Bowl ride on a star resembling one made famous by a series of 1990s PSAs an example of cross-promotion? We don't know and NBC doesn't care--but the incident tells us something important about the logics of contemporary media industries.
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“It’s Approximately 500 Times More Fun to Watch Downton Abbey in a Crowd”: Exploring the Downton Abbey Phenomenon
As season five of Downton Abbey airs in the U.S., Twin Cities Public Television’s rebranding efforts inspire an exploration of the expansive U.S. public television phenomenon.
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The End of “This Year’s Best in Television”
With changes in how television is distributed and viewed, do we need to reconsider the annual "best of" TV lists?
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Santa’s Lousy Prison Guard: The Elf on the Shelf
If The Elf on the Shelf is trying to set up a panopticon, he's doing it all wrong.
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Jessica Lange’s Abject Femininity
Understanding the full complexity of Lange's recent work requires considering it as a layer in the sedimentation of her star text and acting style.
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Vemödalen and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Keonig’s Dictionary uses the linguistic power of naming to successfully transform affect into emotion.
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Of Algorithms and Audiences
“Desperately seeking the audience” of computational tools and digital methods for media studies research.
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Researching from within kids’ culture
Caroline Ferris Leader explores alternative methodologies for working on children's media culture.
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Why is My Kid Watching That Lady Fondle Eggs?
Advancing Our Way to the Bottom? My kids' “now” and “just what I wanted” style of viewership encourages them to be tiny, impatient content bullies.
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Moving Beyond Screen Time
What's all this nonsense about "screen time"?
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Reflections on the “Tinker-verse”
Disney's “Tinker-verse” presents both compelling and troublesome aspects for a feminist media scholar-mom.
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Drive-Ins, and the Stubborn Usefulness of Film Nostalgia
Interstellar (2014) made its well-known debut last weekend. In Chicago, the film (yes, we can still call it that) screened in its “intended” format of 70mm at the Navy Pier IMAX. Its appearance there and at other such venues was predictably celebrated by old school cinephiles as yet another defiant declaration of celluloid’s continuing...
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