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On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)
The medium of sound, long placed in a secondary position to the visual within media studies, has experienced a considerable increase in scholarly attention over the past three decades, to the point...
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Syllabus Fantasies
Even a syllabus can go viral nowadays. One did last week for a course on the topic of “Fate and the Individual in European Literature” taught in the 1940s at the University of Michigan by W.H. Auden....
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What is the Media & Cultural Studies of the MOOC?
What can the media and cultural studies scholar contribute to the flurry of dialogue accumulating discursive authority as “The Year of the MOOC“? MOOCs – massive open online courses – are loosely...
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Roundtable (Part 1): Career Stages and Conferencing Strategies
Photo courtesy of Lindsay Hogan While at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference in Chicago this year, I found myself suddenly very aware of my recent career shift from dissertator and...
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Roundtable (Part 2): Career Stages and Conferencing Strategies
Photo courtesy of Lindsay Hogan In Part One of this series, Erin Copple Smith offered perspectives on conferencing from graduate students. In Part Two, she continues with advice from faculty at various...
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Missionary for the Movies: Remembering Roger Ebert
During the late twentieth century, there were four primary platforms for American film criticism. There was the popular press, all the daily newspapers and weekly mass-circulation magazines. There was...
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Call for Papers: TV and TV Studies in the 21st Century
Television and Television Studies in the 21st Century is an academic conference being held September 26 – 28, 2013 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It will bring together established and...
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In the Beginning Was the Word
I wrote a couple of years ago about Supernatural’s hubris of effectively literalizing the metaphor of Author as God. In that version, Chuck, author of the supposedly fictional yet altogether too real...
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Teach Hacks: How to Capture and Save Broadcast
Watching the truly poignant media spectacle circling the Boston Marathon bombings and shootouts on my television screen last month refocused a very logistical question media scholars and educators...
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On Leaving the Game Early
The dominant storyline that emerged in the wake of Tuesday’s thrilling victory for the Miami Heat in game six of the NBA Finals was not Tim Duncan’s second half disappearance, Ray Allen’s clutch three,...
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Report From: Console-ing Passions at 21
On the 21st anniversary of the Console-ing Passions International Conference, situated at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK on June 23-25, British TV scholarship proved to be the prevailing star...
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The Cumulative Narrative of the Cumulative Narrative of Television Studies
Editor’s Note: In April 2013, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia convened a daylong symposium titled Generation(s) of Television Studies designed in...
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On Wearing Two Badges: Indifference and Discomfort of a Scholar Fan (LeakyCon...
This is the second of a seven-part series about the 4th LeakyCon convention held in Portland Oregon June 27-30, 2013. Part I and the rest of the series can be found here. LeakyCon should have been...
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Fans and Stars and Starkids (LeakyCon Portland)
This is the third of a seven-part series about the 4th LeakyCon convention held in Portland Oregon June 27-30, 2013. What perhaps struck me most about LeakyCon was the fluid approach to celebrity on...
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Deadline Extended: The Velvet Light Trap CFP: On Sound (New Directions in...
The Velvet Light Trap has extended the deadline for its forthcoming “On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)” issue to September 1, 2013. Though the initial call was very successful, the Editorial...
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Digging In
Sunday afternoon, I started thinking ahead to Breaking Bad in anticipation, and the question I kept coming back to was, “I wonder what they’ll do with the cold open?” The series has always used its...
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Change and Continuity on Saturday Night Live
Many regular visitors to this site are likely familiar with the vicissitudes of media scholarship’s slow publishing schedule. What might seem like an incredibly important political or pop cultural...
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Bring a Guest: Hall in the Ideological House
Stuart Hall, 1932-2014 When I began my grad studies program in 1993 at Madison, I was asked to do a second M.A. before I could embark on a PhD. My first M.A. had been 12 years prior, and in English....
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Julie D’Acci on the Emergent Qualities of Sublimating Circuits
On (the) Wisconsin Discourses: Julie D’Acci (Part Two) Part One: Here Does circulating information influence, inflect, or inhibit material relations in empirically verifiable ways? And do strategic...
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Console Your Passions: A 2014 CP Conference Report
From April 10-12, 2014, scholars from around the globe converged on Columbia, Missouri to support, critique, and shape an ever-widening community of feminist media scholars at the Console-ing Passions...
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