Category: Media Studies

May 24, 2017

Netflix on the Croisette — Jonathan Buchsbaum

Jonathan Buchsbaum, author of “Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood’s New World Order,” examines the recent Netflix-Cannes controversy and what it says about the threat to the future of French national cinema.

March 15, 2017

Art in an Age of Narrowcasting — Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom, author of “After Uniqueness,” examines how artists’ videos broadcast on Greek television are engaging shifting distribution ecologies of contemporary moving-image art and with the specific context of Greek public television in a time of austerity measures.

March 9, 2017

Reconstructing Strangelove

Read an interview with Mick Broderick, author of RECONSTRUCTING STRANGELOVE: INSIDE STANLEY KUBRICK’S “NIGHTMARE COMEDY.”

February 15, 2017

Trump's Strange Loves

Read a post by Mick Broderick, author of RECONSTRUCTING STRANGELOVE: INSIDE STANLEY KUBRICK’S “NIGHTMARE COMEDY,” on Donald Trump and Dr. Strangelove, as part of our series of blog posts on the 2016 election and beyond.

January 26, 2017

On Modernist Magazines, Little and Small — A Conversation with Eric Bulson and Donal Harris (Part 2)

Donal Harris discusses his book “On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines,” with Eric Bulson.

November 10, 2016

Interview with Donal Harris, author of "On Company Time"

Read an interview with Donal Harris, author of ON COMPANY TIME: AMERICAN MODERNISM IN THE BIG MAGAZINES, in which Harris explains “big magazines,” the relationship between journalism and literature, and his interest in the topic.

September 28, 2016

William Guynn on Film's Depiction of Historical Trauma

“Recovery of experience can be harrowing and is particularly so in films that speak about traumatic events in the catastrophic twentieth century. All the films evoke unresolved historical situations—unresolved for the communities that experienced them and for the historians who...

September 1, 2016

Alan Schroeder on How Twitter is Changing Presidential Debates

Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates, looks back to the 2012 debates to examine the profound effect of social media on presidential campaigns.

August 31, 2016

Alan Schroeder on the Debating Styles of Kennedy and Nixon

Alan Schroeder, author of “Presidential Debates,” analyzes the now-legendary debate between Kennedy and Nixon and what went right and wrong for each candidate.

August 30, 2016

Interview with Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates

Alan Schroeder on what makes a good debater, how social media has changed presidential debates, and more.

August 25, 2016

Social Media and the Lack of Consent

“Given the continued use of social media to target, harass, and humiliate young women, it is telling that these technologies were born out of sexist attitudes. In their inception, some of the most popular social media sites were designed to denigrate women.” — Kelly Oliver

August 23, 2016

Dismantling Fantasies of Consent and Violence: Three Excerpts from Hunting Girls

“From fairytales to pornography, popular culture is filled with girls and women, unconscious or sleeping, ‘enjoying’ nonconsensual sex. And until we change our fantasies, it is going to be difficult to change our realities.”