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Ghost Stories and Dirty Optics: Notes on the Hilmesian Closeup

June 10, 2015
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Ghost Stories and Dirty Optics: Notes on the Hilmesian Closeup

Looking beyond the content of Michele Hilmes’s work to its structure and form, Shawn VanCour discusses the larger goals and techniques of Hilmesian historiography.
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Digital Tools for Television Historiography, Part III

June 9, 2015
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Digital Tools for Television Historiography, Part III

In the third post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses how she manages audio-visual sources for her extensive research project on the history of U.S. daytime television soap opera.
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Digital Tools for Television Historiography, Part II

June 2, 2015
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Digital Tools for Television Historiography, Part II

In the second post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses her process for converting historical research materials into chapter outlines using Scrivener.
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Honoring Hilmes: “New Media” Historian

May 18, 2015
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Honoring Hilmes: “New Media” Historian

Michele Hilmes’ legacy for radio and sound studies, broadcasting history, and cultural studies is clearly profound and prodigious, but her influence extends further, as well: this quintessential cultural historian is also a profound new media scholar.
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A Voice Made for Radio Studies: Michele Hilmes and the Building of a Discipline

May 4, 2015
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A Voice Made for Radio Studies: Michele Hilmes and the Building of a Discipline

In the first post in our "Honoring Hilmes" series, Bill Kirkpatrick argues that the quality of Michele Hilmes’ scholarship is undisputed, yet the example of her great work alone is not why Radio Studies is now thriving. It is also because Hilmes has done the (arguably much harder) work of field-building.
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